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.

Rankings for

8,721 names, most popular first in the United States

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Matilda Matilda is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Girl Germanic #364 in US
Kayla Kayla is a girl's name with no established etymology, an American coinage of the 1950s that a soap opera turned into a top-name.
Girl uncertain #365 in US
Adriana Adriana means from Hadria, a small town in northern Italy that also named the Adriatic Sea — so both the name and the sea are called after a settlement most people have never heard of.
Girl Italian #366 in US
Erick Erick means ever-ruler, and the K-spelling is the Scandinavian one — Erik the Red named Greenland deliberately to attract settlers, which may be the earliest recorded use of a misleading brand name.
Boy Scandinavian #366 in US
Andre Andre is a boy's name, the French form of Andrew, from the Greek for manly.
Boy French #368 in US
Miller Miller is a unisex name of English origin, the occupational surname for someone who ground grain into flour.
Unisex English #369 in US
Marco Marco means dedicated to Mars, and it has the tightest seven-market spread on this site — the United States 370th, Ireland and England both 467th, Scotland 477th, Northern Ireland 501st and France 502nd, all inside 132 places.
Boy Italian #370 in US
Manuel Manuel is a boy's name meaning God is with us, the Spanish short form of Emmanuel.
Boy Spanish #371 in US
Mallory Mallory means unlucky, and it is one of very few names built on an insult — the Norman malheuré described someone ill-fated, and it became a surname before anyone used it as a first name.
Girl French #372 in US
Grady Grady means noble, and it comes from a byname rather than a rank — the Irish grádha describes someone held in esteem, which is a reputation earned rather than a title inherited.
Boy Irish #373 in US
Esmeralda Esmeralda is not the character's name in the novel — Hugo's girl is christened Agnès and called Esmeralda for the green amulet she wears, so the name most readers know her by is a nickname.
Girl Spanish #373 in US
Forrest Forrest is one of only two names in this group birth records mark as rising, and it is on its second life — American births ran 490 in 2018 and 862 in 2025, having collapsed from a 1994 peak twenty years before.
Boy English #374 in US
Desmond Desmond means south Munster, and it is a territory rather than a person — Deas-Mhumhain named the earldom the Fitzgeralds held, and the name reaches modern use through the land.
Boy Irish #376 in US
Astrid Astrid is a girl's name of Old Norse origin meaning "divinely beautiful".
Girl Old Norse #376 in US
Vanessa Vanessa was invented by Jonathan Swift around 1713, built from the name of a woman he was writing to — and it later became the name of a genus of butterflies.
Girl English #377 in US
Hugo Hugo is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "mind" or "spirit."
Boy Germanic #377 in US
Clark Clark means a clergyman, and the job drifted — a clericus was in holy orders, but since the clergy were the ones who could write, the word slid across to mean anyone who kept records, which is what a clerk still is.
Boy English #378 in US
Ivory Ivory is a unisex name taken from the material, whose word comes through French and Latin from an Egyptian word for elephant.
Unisex English #378 in US
Laura Laura is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," the tree whose leaves crowned Roman victors and poets.
Girl Latin #379 in US
Ricardo Ricardo is a boy's name meaning brave ruler, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Richard.
Boy Spanish #380 in US
Lawson Lawson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Law", where Law is a medieval short form of Lawrence.
Boy English #381 in US
Nicole Nicole is a girl's name, the French feminine of Nicholas, meaning victory of the people.
Girl French #382 in US
Winston Winston is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Wine's settlement", from an Old English personal name plus tun.
Boy English #382 in US
Stephen Stephen is a boy's name from the Greek for crown or garland, borne by the first Christian martyr.
Boy Greek #383 in US
Cesar Cesar is a boy's name from the Roman family name Caesar, whose own meaning the Romans could not agree on.
Boy Latin #385 in US
Liana Liana is a girl's name with two sources. It is a short form of Juliana, Eliana and similar names, and independently the botanical word for a woody climbing vine — from the French lier, to bind, which is also the root of liaison.
Girl French #386 in US
Fernando Fernando means bold journey, and it is Germanic rather than Spanish — the Visigoths brought it to Iberia, where it became the royal name of Castile and Aragon and then traveled to the Americas.
Boy Spanish #387 in US
Elio Elio is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "sun," from the Greek helios.
Boy Italian #388 in US
Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.
Unisex English #389 in US
Carmen Carmen has two unrelated sources — the Latin word for a song, and a Spanish Marian title from Mount Carmel in Israel.
Girl Spanish #390 in US
Florence Florence is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "blossoming" or "flourishing."
Girl Latin #391 in US
Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.
Boy English #392 in US
Jocelyn Jocelyn began as a man's name for a Germanic tribe — the Gauts — and turned female in twentieth-century America. About 90 percent of recorded births are now female.
Unisex French #393 in US
Raphaël Raphaël is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God has healed," borne by one of the three archangels named in scripture.
Boy French #394 in US
Danna Danna is a girl's name with two sources. In Spanish-speaking use it is a modern form of Daniela, from the Hebrew for God is my judge; in English it is a respelling of Dana, an older name whose own origin is disputed.
Girl Hebrew #394 in US
Raymond Raymond is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning counsel and protection.
Boy Germanic #395 in US
Regina Regina is the Latin word for a queen, taken unchanged, and it is still the legal abbreviation in British courts — every criminal case against a defendant is formally Regina versus the accused.
Girl Latin #395 in US
Bonnie Bonnie is a girl's name of Scots origin meaning "pretty" or "fine."
Girl Scottish #396 in US
Jared Jared is a boy's name from Hebrew meaning descent, borne by the father of Enoch — the one man in Genesis who does not die but is taken.
Boy Hebrew #397 in US
Murphy Murphy is a unisex name of Irish origin meaning "sea warrior".
Unisex Irish #397 in US
Marcelo Marcelo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars".
Boy Latin #398 in US
Edwin Edwin is a boy's name from Old English meaning rich friend, borne by a Northumbrian king whose fortress may have given Edinburgh its name.
Boy English #399 in US
Julianna Julianna descends from a Roman family name whose meaning was never settled — downy-bearded and devoted to Jove are both proposed for Julius, and the family's own claim was descent from Venus.
Girl Latin #399 in US
Lauren Lauren is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "laurel," which became a women's name because a film studio invented one.
Girl English #401 in US
Taylor Taylor is an occupational surname meaning one who cuts cloth, now used mostly for girls at 72 percent female.
Unisex English #403 in US
Bradley Bradley is a boy's name from an English place name meaning broad meadow.
Boy English #403 in US
Raven Raven means the bird, and the bird was a war omen before it was a goth accessory — Norse and Anglo-Saxon poetry lists the raven with the wolf and the eagle as the beasts that follow an army.
Girl English #404 in US
Carolina Carolina means free man, and two American states carry it — both Carolinas are named for Charles I in Latin, so a Germanic word for a peasant ended up on the map through a king.
Girl Latin #405 in US

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