Enduring Boy Names

Names whose curve barely moves across the whole series. The rarest movement category, and the only one that is a genuine achievement rather than a phase.

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3,547 names, most popular first in the United States

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Samson Samson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "sun," from Shimshon, derived from shemesh.
Hebrew #477 in US
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
Hebrew #480 in US
Adan Adan is a boy's name and the Spanish form of Adam, written Adán, from the Hebrew adamah, "earth."
Hebrew, Spanish #482 in US
Hezekiah Hezekiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God strengthens."
Hebrew #485 in US
Edgar Edgar is a boy's name meaning wealthy spear, and it is one of very few Old English names still in wide use.
English #487 in US
Sean Sean is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "God is gracious," the Irish form of John by way of Norman French.
Irish #489 in US
Rodrigo Rodrigo is a Spanish and Portuguese boy's name meaning "famous ruler."
Germanic, Spanish #491 in US
Collin Collin doubles the L of Colin, and the name underneath has two unrelated sources — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean, which share nothing but a spelling.
American #493 in US
Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.
English #494 in US
Donovan Donovan means dark brown, and the Irish surname behind it belonged to a king who backed the wrong side — the Uí Donnabháin lost their lands after opposing Brian Boru in the tenth century.
Irish #496 in US
Royce Royce is a boy's name from an English surname meaning "son of Roy" or "son of Rose."
English #499 in US
Brantley Peaked in 2014 · 33,238 births since 1893
#500 in US
Damon Damon means one who tames, and the story attached to it is about friendship — Damon and Pythias each offered to die in the other's place, which persuaded a tyrant to release them both.
Greek #501 in US
Pierce Pierce is a boy's name meaning "rock," from the medieval Piers, the Norman form of Peter.
English, Greek #505 in US
Kyle Kyle is a boy's name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "narrow strait," taken from a district of Ayrshire.
Scottish #508 in US
Johnathan Johnathan is a misspelling that became a name — it inserts an h into Jonathan by confusion with John, and the two are different Hebrew names that only look related.
English #509 in US
Leonidas Leonidas is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "son of the lion."
Greek #510 in US
Alonzo Alonzo is the Spanish descendant of a Visigothic name, and it is rising — 511th in the United States, 1,186th in Canada, 1,324th in France and 1,714th in England and Wales, having peaked as recently as 2022, which is unusual for a name birth records carry from 1880.
Spanish #511 in US
Corbin Corbin means little raven, and it began as a description of hair — Norman bynames used black birds for black-haired people, which is the same logic behind the Irish names built on the word for dark.
French #512 in US
Frank Frank is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man" or "Frank."
Germanic #514 in US
Moses Moses is explained in Exodus as drawn out of the water, but the name is more likely Egyptian — mose means born of, and it is the second half of Thutmose and Ramose, where the god's name sits in front.
Hebrew #515 in US
Marcos Marcos means dedicated to Mars, and the god behind it was not only a war god — Mars presided over agriculture too, which is coherent once you notice that farming and fighting were the same men's seasonal work.
Spanish #516 in US
Lawrence Lawrence is a boy's name meaning from Laurentum, an ancient Italian town linked to the laurel.
Latin #518 in US
Truett Peaked in 2025 · 4,568 births since 1912
#521 in US
Roy Roy is a boy's name with two independent sources — the Gaelic ruadh, meaning red-haired, and the French roi, meaning king.
Scottish Gaelic #525 in US
Philip Philip is a boy's name from Greek elements meaning lover of horses.
Greek #527 in US
Mohamed Mohamed is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy."
Arabic #528 in US
Tyson Tyson means son of the firebrand, and it began as an insult — the Old French tison named a hot-tempered man, so the surname records a reputation the family did not choose.
English #531 in US
Troy Troy is a boy's name with two independent sources — an Irish surname meaning foot soldier, and the ancient city.
Irish #533 in US
Scott Scott is a boy's name meaning a Scot, from the surname given to people from Scotland.
Scottish #534 in US
Kendrick Kendrick is a boy's name from a surname with several origins. It may come from the Welsh Cynwrig, the Old English Cyneric, "royal power," or the Scottish MacHenry.
English, Welsh, Scottish #535 in US
Bruce Bruce is a boy's name from a Norman place name, and Scotland's most famous king carried it as an import — the Bruces came from Normandy, not from Scotland.
Norman #537 in US
Cal Peaked in 2025 · 8,544 births since 1880
#543 in US
Erik Erik is a boy's name meaning ever-ruler or sole ruler, from Old Norse.
Scandinavian #545 in US
Fletcher Fletcher is a boy's name from an English occupational surname for a maker of arrows.
English, French #546 in US
Augustine Augustine means venerable, and it began as a title rather than a name — the Senate voted Octavian the style Augustus in 27 BC, and everything since descends from that vote.
Latin #547 in US
Eliseo Peaked in 2025 · 12,260 births since 1880
Hebrew #550 in US
Jeffrey Jeffrey is a boy's name from Germanic roots whose first element is disputed, though the second means peace.
Germanic #552 in US
Armando Armando means army man, and it is the same name as Herman — one Germanic compound that reached Spanish through the Visigoths and English through the Normans, ending up unrecognisably different.
Spanish #556 in US
Saul Saul means asked for, and the Hebrew Bible appears to have attached his wordplay to the wrong man — the puns on asking in the birth of Samuel fit Sha'ul far better than they fit Shemuel.
Hebrew #557 in US
Porter Peaked in 2015 · 22,815 births since 1880
#560 in US
Garrett Garrett means spear-strength or spear-rule, and it descends from two different Germanic names that medieval English speakers could no longer tell apart.
English #564 in US
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
English #565 in US
Rocky Rocky is a boy's name that began as a nickname for Rocco and similar names, or for a tough person.
American, Italian #568 in US
Roberto Roberto means bright fame, the Italian and Spanish form of Robert, and both halves of the compound mean roughly the same thing — which is normal in Germanic naming rather than a redundancy.
Italian #569 in US
Enrique Enrique means ruler of the estate, and the home in it is territorial rather than domestic — the Germanic element named the land a lord held, not the house he lived in.
Spanish #571 in US
Johan Johan means God is gracious, and it ranks 393rd in France against 572nd in the United States — a Scandinavian and Dutch form of John that does better in French than in either English-speaking market.
Scandinavian #572 in US
Clay Clay means the earth a potter works, and it carries a creation story in almost every tradition — Genesis forms Adam from the ground, and Mesopotamian and Egyptian accounts do the same with clay.
English #573 in US

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