Back to School Names 🍎✏️

What is your favorite name from each decade of American classrooms?

School is back in session, which for us name nerds may have began a new chapter of name spotting on classroom rosters.

Class rosters this year are likely to reflect the top names of the 2010s and 2020s like Olivia and Oliver, Madison and Mason, Emma and Ethan.

80s kids, on the other hand, were much more likely to share a seat on the bus with a Jessica, Jennifer, Michael, or Robert.

This week’s featured Nameberry blog — Back to School Names — explores what names would have been found in American classrooms throughout history.

Now for the fun part: vote for your favorite name from each of these decades to find the ultimate Nameberry favorites!

And don’t forget to check out our blog post to see the full lists of top names in each decade of American classrooms.

Which decade had the best baby name style? Share with us in the comments!

And now to announce our winner of the plural names contest!

In our weekly newsletter from earlier this month, we challenged our readers to come up with a brand-new idea for a plural name — the plural form of a noun like Brooks, Wells, and Banks.

The winning suggestions is…

Fords!

This name was nominated by our reader Janelle, who explained: “It’s a nature name, it sounds like a surname, it’s brisk, and it can also be a verb. I think it has potential!”

We have added Fords to the Nameberry database, so check out the official name page.

Thank you to all the Berries who nominated their ideas, you are all so brilliant and creative!