Latest / The Cubby and Christine Morning Show / Baby Name Trends For 2027
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Light FM. We're talking babies. Apparently, baby name trends are
- 0:10Speaker 1: going to be switching up in 2027, right, Christine? Yes.
- 0:13Speaker 1: Getting a little nutty out there?
- 0:14Speaker 2: A little more is better approach happening for 2027. People
- 0:18Speaker 2: want unique baby names.
- 0:19Speaker 1: So if you're pregnant and you're thinking about what to
- 0:22Speaker 1: name your baby, this is what 2027 has in store.
- 0:26Speaker 2: Name maxing is in. Like blending two names together, combining
- 0:31Speaker 2: Maeve and Avery into Mavery. They're calling that trend maxing. Okay.
- 0:36Speaker 1: And by the way, we're getting this from a website
- 0:37Speaker 1: called Nameberry. They put out a list of all the trends,
- 0:41Speaker 1: all the forecasts that parents are embracing. And so name
- 0:45Speaker 1: maxing is one of them. There's like 10 of them
- 0:47Speaker 1: on here. Number two is the Odyssey names. So that's
- 0:52Speaker 1: the movie, right?
- 0:54Speaker 2: Yes, right, based on the book, yeah.
- 0:56Speaker 1: So names like Ajax, Calypso, even Homer making a comeback. Yeah.
- 1:04Speaker 1: Could you imagine holding a little baby, two days old,
- 1:08Speaker 1: and going, hey, Homer.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Aw, little baby Homer.
- 1:11Speaker 1: It just seems silly, but it's kind of a cool
- 1:13Speaker 1: name at the same time. It is.
- 1:15Speaker 2: Lunar names like Alara or Moon.
- 1:18Speaker 1: Okay, World Cup names. That really inspired people. like Baby Holland.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
- 1:25Speaker 1: Is that how you do it? Like with two A's?
- 1:27Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Holland. And there's Alara or Moo. Oh, no, I'm sorry.
- 1:32Speaker 2: Those are my lunar names.
- 1:32Speaker 1: Yeah, those are lunar names. Baby Enzo is a World
- 1:34Speaker 1: Cup name. Baby Enzo.
- 1:36Speaker 2: Names ending in Omi, like O-M-I, like Tomi, Iomi, Zayomi.
- 1:42Speaker 1: I have a daughter named Naomi.
- 1:43Speaker 2: Naomi, yes.
- 1:46Speaker 1: She's back in the day, though, 2020. She was setting
- 1:47Speaker 1: the trends.
- 1:48Speaker 2: These are 2027 trends. So.
- 1:52Speaker 1: What, opulent names? Opulent. Opulent.
- 1:56Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Opulent names like Cashmere, Golden, Hampton, and Trust. Naming a
- 2:03Speaker 1: baby Trust?
- 2:05Speaker 2: Like Trust Fund Baby.
- 2:06Speaker 1: It's good. It's a good thing. If your last name
- 2:09Speaker 1: is Fun, that'd be kind of cool.
- 2:10Speaker 2: Trust Fund Baby is a good thing.
- 2:11Speaker 1: You get to go to school, yeah.
- 2:13Speaker 2: Medieval names like Agnes, Winifred, and Archibald.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Hey, you know an Archibald. I know.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Archibald Von Nagy.
- 2:21Speaker 1: Yes. There's coastal baby names like Clifton, Cove, Fisher, Reef,
- 2:28Speaker 1: and Tide. Mm-hmm. I'm sorry.
- 2:33Speaker 2: Seriously?
- 2:34Speaker 1: Name that kid Tide?
- 2:36Speaker 2: Like coastal, though. The Tide comes in and goes out.
- 2:40Speaker 2: Not like Tide, the laundry detergent.
- 2:42Speaker 1: What are you thinking? Okay. Because producer Kristen, what are
- 2:46Speaker 1: you thinking? Middle name Pod? Tide? Tide Pod?
- 2:50Speaker 2: Tide? What about the 1890s nicknames? And here we go again.
- 2:55Speaker 2: Archie from my Archibald. That's his name, Archie. Ernie and Ozzie.
- 3:00Speaker 2: And by the way, my Archie's a cat, but he
- 3:02Speaker 2: also is a trendsetter apparently with the names.
- 3:05Speaker 1: Absolutely. Interesting though, 1890s, they were considered nicknames. Ernie, Archie,
- 3:10Speaker 1: and Ozzie. But those are cool names too. And then
- 3:13Speaker 1: what's the final one?
- 3:14Speaker 2: The European place names like Florence, Marbella, Oslo, Roma.
- 3:19Speaker 1: Roma. Roma. Yeah. So there you go. The baby surnames.
- 3:23Speaker 1: What's that?
- 3:24Speaker 2: Baby Vienna.
- 3:25Speaker 1: That's actually kind of pretty.
- 3:27Speaker 2: That would be pretty. You have a friend who has
- 3:29Speaker 2: Baby Vienna? Producer Kristen is saying, yeah, I think that
- 3:31Speaker 2: is pretty.
- 3:32Speaker 1: It just works. Baby Vienna.
- 3:33Speaker 2: How about Baby Budapest? Not as much.
- 3:37Speaker 1: You can't go wrong, actually. What else? Baby Norway? Baby Prague.
- 3:43Speaker 1: Baby Shark.
- 3:46Speaker 2: Oh, I hear a hit tune.
- 3:48Speaker 1: Yeah, we should work on something like that. Yeah.