Love Is Blind however, is from 📍Ohio.
Love Is Blind personality being named it — and when I did, I was an immediate fan 🙋🏾♀️ of her name. I think Dynasty is a ✔classy, ✔bold and ✔decadent name. A blog all about... names! I've been a "collector" of & obsessed with other people's first names (esp. unique, unusual & uncommon) forever. Read this space for fascinating, fervent, fun (for fellow name nerds): news, facts, commentary & anecdotes on names - the good, bad, ugly & pretty. This is IRN (est. in 2010s via Freewebs) REDUX!
Love Is Blind however, is from 📍Ohio.
Love Is Blind personality being named it — and when I did, I was an immediate fan 🙋🏾♀️ of her name. I think Dynasty is a ✔classy, ✔bold and ✔decadent name. With the viral "2026 Is The New 2016" trend everywhere, I decided to 🧐 look back 🔙 at the most 📈 popular 👶 baby 📛 names of ⏪ 2016!
Without further ado, here are the 🔝 top 📛 names of 2016 the SSA lists 📄:
My favorite names are:
💙BOYS: 📛Daniel 📛Jackson 📛Alexander 📛Logan 📛James
💗GIRLS: 📛Scarlett 📛Elizabeth 📛Isabella 📛Mia 📛Madison
If 📛Noah and 📛Emma somehow steal the #1 top names spotlight from 📛Liam and 📛Olivia in 2026 — that will be pretty cool for them to reign again in the names realm — ⏩ 10 years later. 🤯
📛Garnet is a 💎gemstone (for the precious stone, the birthstone of 📅January) and 🌈color name (derived from Middle English gernet meaning "dark red").
📛Nameberry🍒 classifies Garnet as, "one of the jewel names in use a hundred years ago, due for revival along with sisters Ruby and Pearl." Garnet ranks #956 on the US Top 1000 📛 name 📊 chart.
A variant of Garnet includes:📛Garnette. Garnet can also be spelled with two t's: 📛Garnett and used as a boy's name. Garnet can also be a surname.📛
Garnets live mainly in 📍Ohio and 📍West Virginia.
I really like the name 📛Garnet as I'm 📅January born. 🎂 I'm a big fan of birthstone names in general however. And Garnet is one of the more unusual, less 💎jewel names 📛📃used — unfortunately — because it's a great name. I see 📛Garnet as a unisex name but it leans towards it being a boy's 💙 name more so in my eyes. I absolutely love the cute, alt spelled 📛Garnette if used for a girl. 💗
⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛GARNET
📛Garnet Bailey 🏒(hockey player)
📛Garnet Richardson 🥌(curler)
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Garnet:
https://www.mynamestats.com/
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Garnet: 👍 OR 








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Being it's the start of January 🎉 I will be discussing the first month of the year name: 📛📅January
January "the term originated before the year 1000 from Middle English, ultimately deriving from the Latin noun use of Jānuārius, equivalent to Jānus. In ancient Roman culture, Jānus was a god of doorways, beginnings, and the rising and setting of the sun. His name comes from the Latin jānus, meaning 'doorway, archway, arcade.'"
Behind the Name explains that 📅January "briefly charted on the American top 1000 list for girls after it was borne by the protagonist of Jacqueline Susann's novel Once Is Not Enough (1973)." 📛Nameberry🍒 believes it was because of the character 📅January Wayne in Susann's 📘book that boosted baby girls to be named after her in the 1970s.
The second cultural influence that helped spike January as a baby name is — 📅January Jones 🎥— who played Betty Draper on the wildly successful 2007 📺show Mad Men. The mother-to-be of Jones was inspired by 📅January Wayne's character so much, she named her baby daughter after her. Now Nameberry says, "📅January has joined 📅March, 📅April, 📅June and 📅August as a plausible month name."
📅January's rank on the US Top 1000 name chart 📈 is #749. And as of 2024, "📅January was only used on 11 girls in the US, making it a very rare choice."
📍North Dakota 🥶 has the most Januarys along with supposedly ☀ sunny 📍California.
📛📅January 🥇 is just like the month name 📛October to me, one of my favorite names ever. I've loved 🥰 the name 📛📅January since I was in high 🏫school in fact. It's a name I would have loved to have been named 😭 as I was born 👶🏾 (and if I had a daughter and she were born in January, 📛📅January would be my top pick 👌🏾) in January (btw today is my 🎂birthday! 🤗).
📛📅January is a beautiful name with significant history behind the name. I definitely prefer📛📅January more so for a girl 💗 but boys named 📛📅January 💙 are just as cool. 😎 I'm surprised 📛📅January is not a top month baby name by now... 🤔 I hope it will start to rise 📈 on the name charts again. 🤞🏾 Nameberry has hope it will too pointing out: "January was used by Emily Henry in her popular contemporary romance novel, Beach Read, which might inspire parents-to-be in coming years."
⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛JANUARYS:
📛January LaVoy 🧼📺 (actress)
📛January Isaac 📺🎥 (actress)
📛January Gessert 👠 / 📺🌟 (model & reality star)
📛January Low 💃🏻 (dancer)
📛January So 👠 (model)
📛January Thompson 🎤 (singer)
📛January Makamba
(politician)
📛January Suchodolski 🖌 (painter)
♂️Masculine Version of 📛JANUARY:
💭I love the masculine version of January. It's a very strong 💪 name and I love the meaning 🚪 behind the name. Janus and January could also make a very cute brother/sister name combination, especially for twins. 👦👧
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛January:
https://www.mynamestats.com/
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛January: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10
🥳Happy New Year! 🎇 A year of ✨new names📛 awaits! 🤗
📛Nameberry🍒 released their: 👶 Baby Name Trends 2026 📛📈 It's a massive 📃list of first names the 📛name Bible 📖 site believes will be everywhere 🧐 this year.
Nameberry 🔮predicts, "Baby name trends 2026 are propelled by escapism. Amid bleak headlines and growing uncertainty, parents are actively seeking names that remind them of anything but our current environment. When the news is too heavy to bear, they turn into their favorite forms of entertainment. After losing themselves in an epic romantasy series, historical novel, anime adaptation, or reality TV show, many emerge with fresh inspiration for their baby name lists, choosing names that feel fanciful, nostalgic, or full of hope."
Without further ado, Nameberry's top 10 baby name trends for 2026!🎉:
1. 🗿ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS NAMES📛
2. ✨SHOWGIRL NAMES📛
8. 🧂STRAIGHT OUT OF UTAH NAMES 📛
My favorite names: 💙Coast, 💗Honey, 💗Scotlyn & 💙Zealand
9. 🗯ANIME NAMES 📛
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🤗Merry 🎄Christmas❗
Today I will talk about the very cheerful 😃 name that belonged to the very cute, klutzy and loveable 🥰 "Chrissy" of the sitcom 3️⃣Three's Company. 📺 The full name of Chrissy (played by the late Suzanne Somers RIP) was actually: 📛🎄Christmas Noelle Snow.❄ How incredibly delightful and special is that name?!? 😊 I've been a fan of the show since I was small and just found out years ago that 📛Chrissy = 🎄Christmas. 🤯
🎄Christmas as a first name is "from the name of the holiday, which means ✝ Christ festival."
Nameberry explains 🎄Christmas is a name of English origin — "a day name long and quietly used as a name for babies born at Christmas. Prettier and more modern than Noel or Noelle."
🎄Christmas is a super rare name with just under 145 babies given the joyful name according to SSA data. 📍California and 📍Hawaii are where 🎄Christmas lovers have named their children the happy, holiday name.
I love the idea of giving 📛🎄Christmas as a name. It's definitely a holiday name that would make one do a 👀double take upon seeing (a la 📛Easter 🐇). 🎄Christmas as a name is celebratory 🙌 with great spiritual significance. 🎄Christmas is first and foremost a girl's 💗 name interestingly. 🤔 But I equally like using 🎄Christmas for a boy 💙 too — with 📛Chris as the perfect nickname. 👌🏾
📌The long-standing (est. 2006) name blog: Nancy's 👶 Baby Names 📛 has an intriguing article asking: 💭How many humans have been named Christmas throughout history?
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛🎄Christmas:
https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/C/CH/CHRISTMAS/index.html
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🎄Christmas: 👍 OR 💚
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Today is🎄Christmas Eve! And so I will be talking about the very 😃 happy name: 📛Merry❗
The meaning of merry: "full of cheerfulness or gaiety; joyous in disposition or spirit." 📛Merry is ultimately from Old English myrige.
Behind the Name says Merry is a diminutive of 📛Mercy: "from Latin merces "wages, reward", a derivative of merx "goods, wares.""
Nameberry describes Merry as: "lighthearted, happy. She'd better be." 😅 And insists Merry is a classic name for Christmas babies. 🎄👶💗 Merry was at a 📈 peak in 1969 at #949 on the US Top 1000 baby 📛names list 📃 and surprisingly hasn't risen anymore.
The most Merrys happily (hopefully❗) live in 📍California and 📍South Dakota.
I really like 📛Merry. 🤗 It's a really pretty name. It's kind of simple (a la the timeless 📛Mary, the two 🔊sound so similar) but Merry has more pizzazz 💥 with its bright 🌟 meaning. 😀
⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛MERRYS:
📛Merry Clayton 🎤 (singer)
📛Merry Riana 📕 (author)
📛Merry Anders [born Mary Helen Anderson] 🎥 (actress)
📛Merry Hull [born Gladys Geissmann] 🧤 (glove designer)
📛Merry Lepper 👟 (runner)
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛Merry:
https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/M/ME/MERRY/index.html
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛Merry: 👍 OR 








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📛🎉Jubilee is a fun, word name that means many things:
🎉Jubilee recently ranked #103 on Nameberry's Top Unique Names list (📝: "the top unique names are those that rank right below the official list of the US Top 1000 Baby Names. Most of these top unique names, ranked 1001 to 2000 on the US list, are given to between 100 and 200 babies a year. That means they strike a good balance between too popular and too unusual"). I'm surprised 🎉Jubilee is not further along on the name charts. 📊🤔 Names.org says: "📛🎉Jubilee was first given to 5 or more babies in the year 1975 when it was given as a first name to 9 new born babies. The highest recorded use of the first name Jubilee was in 2015 with a total of 229 babies."
The places where the most 🎉Jubilees live are not the party cities one would think (New Orleans or Las Vegas) but 📍California and 📍District of Columbia.
"While relatively uncommon as a personal name, 📛🎉Jubilee has maintained its appeal among parents seeking names that convey happiness and significance, particularly in communities with strong biblical or historical connections," Names.org suggests. While Nameberry thinks 🎉Jubilee has a "joyous and jubilant aura, but it wouldn't be an easy name to carry, what with all that pressure to be a living, breathing, 24-7 party." 🥳
I love the name 📛🎉Jubilee! It's a too cute 🥰 name that has great and significant meanings behind it — plus a joyous, positive vibe surrounding it. 🌟
⭐FAMOUS & 📝NOTEWORTHY 📛🎉Jubilees:
📛Jubilation "🎉Jubilee" Lee ❌🗯 (comic book character from The X-Men)
📛🎉Jubilee Sharpe 📺 (👰🏾The Bachelor contestant)
📛🎉DJ "🎉Jubilee" [born Jerome Temple]🎤(rapper)
♂️Masculine Version of 📛🎉JUBILEE:
📛🎉JUBILANT
💭I believe Jubilant matches Jubilee as its masculine name. 👌🏾 I love the name Jubilant - it oozes good vibes. 👍🏾👍🏾 Jubilee and Jubilant would make really great twin or sister/brother 👧🏾👦🏾 names too!
📌STATS ON THE NAME 📛🎉JUBILEE:
https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/J/JU/JUBILEE/index.html
☔📛IRN RATING OF 📛🎉JUBILEE: 👍 OR 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗/10
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