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Name expert, writer, and Editor-in-Chief at @nameberry • Chicago-based perinatal therapist

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The Fiction of Names: Why I can't give my characters the names I love

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By Sophie Kihm
| Nameberry Newsletter
As a child, I was obsessed with baby names, and spent many happy days inventing sibsets of eight hypothetical children. When I wasn’t doing that, I was often writing stories or novels with outrageously named characters. Some things last. I still love names, and I still write stories (my debut novel, Queen Mab, publishes this month in North America and the U.K.). But I’ve learned in the meantime that I can’t name my characters the way I named my babies.
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When I Can Help You Name Your Baby

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By Sophie Kihm
| Nameberry Newsletter
I am a professional baby namer. I’ve spent more than ten years advising people on baby names for a fee, as well as creating content on Nameberry — writing, making videos, posting online — designed to help you find the right baby name for free. So when should you hire me to help name your baby, and when would you do better to save your money and do it on your own?
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The *Real* Top Baby Names of 2025

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By Sophie Kihm
| Nameberry Newsletter
That's right — Playground Analysis is live Sure, the Social Security Administration announced that Olivia and Liam were the most popular baby names of 2025. But were they really? Longtime Berries know where I’m going with this. Every year, our Playground Analysis — compiled by Kelli Brady — recalculates the US popularity charts based on sound rather than spelling. Because when you’re at the playground, Sophia and Sofia are effectively the same name.
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