American Names
Names that were made in America rather than brought there: surnames turned into first names, place names, respellings, and coinages built to sound like something older. They are the group most often given an invented etymology elsewhere, because a name with no history attracts one.
Languages behind these names
Hebrew
uncertain
Modern English coinage
invented
Latin
Germanic
10 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in United States