Kids Health

The Best Baby Boy Names Starting With "A"

Finding a great name for your baby can be a lot harder than you may realize. Settling on one name out of the thousands and thousands of options can even start to feel impossible. Expectant parents try many different methods when brainstorming baby names. They might pour through their bookshelves for literary inspiration, turn to […]

Pet Care

Top 10 Funniest Pet Names of 2020

During 2020, our staff at the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) received calls from hundreds of thousands of pet parents. With each call, they kept track of the pets’ names and at the end of the year, compiled a list of the funniest, most creative names they received calls about. Check out the incredible […]

Pet Care

The Top 10 Male and Female Pet Names of 2020

Throughout 2020, our veterinarians at the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (APCC) helped over 370,590 animals. During this time, they kept records of each and every case and at the end of the year, rounded up the records and pulled together both the top 10 male and female pet names they received calls about in 2020. See […]

Kids Health

The most popular baby boy names this past decade

When it comes to baby boy names, many parents tend to stick with the classics. For instance, according to the Social Security Administration, the name Michael was the most popular boy name from 1961 to 1998, and had been one of the most popular baby boy names in the 1950s, which is pretty impressive. For […]

Kids Health

Baby names you’ll hear everywhere in 2019

While we don’t have a crystal ball that can tell us what the most popular names of 2019 will be, we can still take a pretty good stab at predicting some of the names that you’re going to be hearing more and more in the new year. New years always come with a lot of […]

Health News

These Are Australia's Most Popular Baby Names

There’s a few things the British royal family do best: nail polished glamour, rear corgis and apparently, pick baby names.  Charlotte—a name shared by the Duchess of Cambridge’s two-year-old princess—has topped the list of the most popular girls’ names in Australia for a second year in a row.  According to a study by social researchers McCrindle, 1817 girls were named Charlotte out […]