Enduring 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.
Every name here is placed by how its recent years in the birth records compare with its
earlier ones — so the list moves as the records do.
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Oliver Oliver is a boy's name that entered England with the Normans and has a genuinely disputed origin.Boy Norman French #3 in US
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Mia Mia is a girl's name that began as a short form of longer names such as Maria and Amelia before becoming an independent given name in its own right.Girl uncertain (Scandinavian/Italian short form) #6 in US
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Ava Ava is a girl's name with several proposed origins rather than one settled root.Girl uncertain (Latin, Germanic, or Hebrew) #11 in US
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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.