Baby Name Guides

Friendly guides for choosing a baby name and understanding the numbers behind the names. Pick one to start, or jump straight to Seek Baby Names and tap Shuffle.

Choosing a name

• How to Choose a Baby Name: A Practical Checklist
  A step-by-step checklist, with tick boxes, for gathering, testing and narrowing down names together.
• When Should You Choose a Baby Name?
  Before the birth, after the birth or somewhere in between: how families decide on timing.
• Tips for Searching Baby Names and Finding Ones You Love
  Make the most of Shuffle, search and filters to find names you wouldn't have thought of.

Names and numbers

• How Baby Name Popularity Works: Counts, Rankings and Trend Charts
  Where the counts come from, how names are ranked and how to read a trend chart.
• Most Popular Baby Names of 2025 and Changes Since 2015
  The top 25 girl and boy names of 2025, and how each has moved since 2015.
• Popular Baby Names by Decade: The 1950s to the 2020s
  The top 10 girl and boy names of every decade from the 1950s to the 2020s.
• Rising Baby Names: Names Climbing the Charts Since 2015
  The names that climbed the most spots in the rankings between 2015 and 2025.

About Seek Baby Names

• The Inspiration Behind Seek Baby Names
  Why we created the site and what we wanted to do differently.