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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Carl Carl is a boy's name from the Germanic word for a free man, the same root as Charles.Boy Germanic 187 in 2025
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Sally Sally is a girl's name meaning princess, a pet form of Sarah reached by medieval rhyming.Girl Hebrew 201 in 2025
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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.