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This 18-inch doll features blue eyes and strawberry blonde hair with pink tips and two face-framing braids. The doll wears a rainbow dress, pink-and-purple ombre glasses, two beaded bracelets, and colorful sandals with platform soles. Summer joins the brand’s line of contemporary characters that “represent a wide range of backgrounds and interests to reflect what it means to be an American girl today,” said the company in a release.

Jenny Studenroth Gerson is an Atlanta-based lifestyle journalist and novelist (Let Me Let You Go, 2020). Her work can be seen in publications including HuffPost, Cosmo, and WSJ, among many others. When not meeting deadlines, she is chasing toddlers or chugging coffee—or both!

Every year, the Office of National Statistics publishes a list of the most popular names in England and Wales for both girls and boys. Because of the time needed to collect and process all the data, each new list is always based on names registered up to 2 years ago. So, the the most recent list is based on names registered in 2022.

She is a mom inventor, author, founder of a boutique web design and branding firm, and a positive living expert. Some popular nicknames are Billy, Charlie, Jake, Joe and Will. These nicknames are among the US top 1000 nicknames for boys and hence are popular (3). The birth must be registered by the baby’s mother or father and if you are unmarried and go to the register office alone, you will have to take a declaration of parentage form signed by the other parent with you. You will need to take some identification with you to prove who you are and some registrars may ask to see your baby’s red book, which is their personal health record.

We have a huge collection of boy names with meanings and origin. What about the trends that are so new, they haven’t shown up on the SSA list yet? The top names for boys also include lots of gender-neutral names, meaning this roundup is a decent place to poke around for baby girl name inspiration, too. Cool boy names are found everywhere, but television and movies particularly harbor great options. You may recognize the edgy Jax and Nero from the show Sons of Anarchy and hipster picks like Theon and Ramsay from Game of Thrones. If you turn to the silver screen, you’ll find plenty of contenders like Dashiell, Lucius, and Winston in The Incredibles 2.