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.

Rankings for

8,721 names, most popular first in United States

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Jorge Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of George, meaning farmer.
Boy Spanish #322 in US
Marley Marley is a name of Old English origin meaning "boundary wood" or "pleasant meadow."
Unisex English #322 in US
Francisco Francisco means Frenchman, and Saint Francis was given it as a nickname — his father traded in France and called him the little Frenchman.
Boy Spanish #323 in US
Nina Nina is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
Girl Disputed #324 in US
Zane Zane peaked in 2018, later than almost any name in this group, and it entered American use as a surname — Zane Grey's westerns carried a family name that traces back to the founder of Zanesville, Ohio.
Boy American #324 in US
Serena Serena has the most evenly spread ranking on this site — Scotland 298th, Ireland 310th, the United States 325th, France 330th and England and Wales 381st, five markets inside 83 places of each other.
Girl Latin #325 in US
Dariel Dariel is a boy's name with no settled origin.
Boy Disputed #327 in US
Kendall Kendall means the valley of the River Kent, and Scotland ranks it 309th — above the United States at 329th, which is unusual for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
Unisex English #329 in US
Fatima Fatima is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "one who weans" or "one who abstains."
Girl Arabic #330 in US
Josue Josue is the same name as Jesus, not merely a relative of it — both descend from the Hebrew Yehoshua, and Greek translators simply rendered it two different ways in two different books.
Boy Spanish #330 in US
Cruz Cruz is a name of Spanish origin meaning "cross."
Unisex Spanish #331 in US
Viviana Viviana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive".
Girl Italian #331 in US
Hattie Hattie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Girl Germanic #334 in US
Orion Orion is a boy's name of Greek origin, borne by the mythological hunter and the constellation named for him.
Boy Greek #334 in US
Martin Martin is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars," borne by Saint Martin of Tours, whose cloak gave Europe the word chapel.
Boy Latin #335 in US
Mira Mira is a girl's name that arrives from at least four unrelated directions — Latin for wonderful, Slavic for peace, Sanskrit through the poet Mirabai, and the name of a variable star.
Girl Latin #335 in US
Bryan Bryan is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unsettled — noble and high are both proposed.
Boy Irish #336 in US
Gideon Gideon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "hewer" or "one who cuts down".
Boy Hebrew #337 in US
Brian Brian is a boy's name of Irish origin whose meaning is unsettled — noble and high are both proposed, and neither is secure.
Boy Irish #339 in US
Emory Emory is a unisex name of Germanic origin, a variant of Emery.
Unisex English #339 in US
Marshall Marshall began as a stable hand — the word meant a horse servant, and it climbed to become the highest rank in several armies.
Boy English #340 in US
Heidi Heidi is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble one."
Girl Germanic #341 in US
Leighton Leighton is a unisex name of English origin meaning "herb garden settlement".
Unisex English #342 in US
Colin Colin has two entirely separate origins — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean.
Boy Scottish #343 in US
Annabelle Annabelle is a girl's name of disputed origin.
Girl Latin #344 in US
Wade Wade means a river crossing, and there is a second Wade entirely — a Germanic sea giant from Old English legend whose story Chaucer refers to as though everyone knew it, and which is now lost.
Boy English #344 in US
Sterling Sterling is a unit of money that became a name, and the coin was probably named for a bird — the little star on early Norman pennies gives one account, and a starling stamped on them gives the other.
Boy English #345 in US
Russell Russell is a boy's name from a Norman nickname meaning little red, given to someone red-haired or ruddy.
Boy Norman #346 in US
Paige Paige is a girl's name from a medieval job title meaning a young male servant, and it reached women by way of a surname.
Girl English #346 in US
Angelina Angelina means little angel, and the Greek root behind it means a messenger — the winged being is a later idea layered onto a word for someone carrying news.
Girl Italian #347 in US
Wells Wells is a boy's name of English origin meaning someone who lived by a spring.
Boy English #347 in US
Sydney Sydney is a name from a French place name — Saint-Denis, contracted by English speakers — and the Australian city was named after a man who bore it.
Girl English #348 in US
Ezequiel Ezequiel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God strengthens".
Boy Hebrew #348 in US
Rebecca Rebecca is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is unsettled, and the standard gloss involves a rope for tying cattle.
Girl Hebrew #349 in US
Leonel Leonel is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "little lion".
Boy Latin #350 in US
Damien Damien is a boy's name meaning to tame, and its saint was a Belgian priest who chose to live in a leper colony and died of the disease.
Boy French #352 in US
Hope Hope is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the virtue, from hopian.
Girl English #352 in US
Thea Thea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "goddess."
Girl Greek #353 in US
Joaquin Joaquin is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "established by God".
Boy Hebrew #355 in US
Bryce Bryce means speckled or freckled, from a Gaulish saint's name whose meaning is not certain.
Boy Scottish #357 in US
Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.
Unisex Hebrew #358 in US
Titus Titus is a boy's name of Latin origin whose meaning is unknown.
Boy Latin #358 in US
Franklin Franklin means a freeholder — a man who owned his land but held no noble rank, a specific medieval class.
Boy English #359 in US
Spencer Spencer is a name of Middle English origin meaning "steward" or "dispenser of provisions."
Boy English #360 in US
Gwendolyn Gwendolyn means white ring or blessed ring, from Welsh, and the second element is genuinely a ring — a torc or armlet, which was the standard Celtic mark of rank.
Girl Welsh #360 in US
Camilla Camilla is a girl's name of Latin origin naming a young attendant at a religious rite.
Girl Latin #361 in US
Helena Helena is a girl's name of Greek origin whose meaning is unresolved, and its saint is credited with finding the True Cross.
Girl Greek #363 in US
Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".
Boy Scottish #363 in US

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