As we move through the final months of 2025, the folks at BabyCenter are looking ahead to what the new year will hold in the realm of baby names. A new report from the parenting website and app predicts the trends that will shape name choices in 2026.

According to the report, parents will be drawing inspiration from current prestige TV, basketball stars, cottagecore vibes and more.

“These trends show us that parents today aren’t just sticking with the classics,” Rebekah Wahlberg, a baby name trends specialist at BabyCenter, told HuffPost. “They’re willing to look anywhere and everywhere for baby name inspiration, from literature to music to sports to celebrities.”

BabyCenter’s predictions are based on data from the more than 350,000 babies born between November 2024 and November 2025 to parents who shared their names with the website and/or app.

The experts at BabyCenter believe Y2K nostalgia and today's prestige TV are among the trends shaping parents' name choices.

“Names from The Great Gatsby and The Catcher in the Rye were not on my bingo card,” Wahlberg said. “But when we saw them climbing the charts, we knew that parents today are leaning into the nostalgia from the classic literature they........

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