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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King King is a boy's name taken from the English title, from the Old English cyning.
Boy English #405 in US
Lana Lana is a girl's name with several competing origins — a Hawaiian word for calm, a Slavic short form of Svetlana, and a Hollywood invention of the 1930s.
Girl Hawaiian #406 in US
Leandro Leandro is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion-man," borne by a lover who drowned swimming a strait to reach her.
Boy Italian #406 in US
Augustus Augustus is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "consecrated".
Boy Latin #407 in US
Angela Angela is a girl's name from the Greek for messenger, the word that also gives us angel.
Girl Greek #408 in US
Remy Remy is a name of Latin origin meaning "oarsman" or "rower."
Boy Latin #408 in US
Hector Hector is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "holding fast," borne by the Trojan prince who is the most sympathetic figure in the Iliad.
Boy Greek #409 in US
Eduardo Eduardo means wealthy guardian, and it is one of very few Old English names that spread across the Catholic world — carried by Edward the Confessor's cult rather than by English settlement.
Boy Spanish #411 in US
Laila Laila means night, and the romance built on it ran for a thousand years before Clapton — Layla and Majnun is a Persian retelling of an Arabic story, and it is the source both of the song and of the name's spread.
Girl Arabic #413 in US
Hank Hank is a boy's name of Germanic origin, a short form of Henry meaning "home ruler".
Boy Germanic #413 in US
Holly Holly is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the tree, from holegn.
Girl English #416 in US
Charlee Charlee is a girl's name of Germanic origin, a respelling of Charlie.
Girl English #417 in US
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
Unisex English #418 in US
Reed Reed is a boy's name of English origin meaning "red" — a nickname for someone with red hair or a ruddy complexion.
Boy English #418 in US
Joy Joy is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning exactly what it says, taken from the English word.
Girl English #419 in US
Conrad Conrad set its American peak in the most recent year we hold, 2025, on 770 births — a name our records carry from 1880 reaching its high point a hundred and forty-five years later.
Boy German #419 in US
Melissa Melissa is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bee," and it was the title of the priestesses who served Demeter.
Girl Greek #420 in US
Francis Francis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "Frenchman" or "free man."
Boy Germanic #420 in US
Dorothy Dorothy is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "gift of God."
Girl Greek #421 in US
Solomon Solomon means peace, and it charts in all seven markets we track — the same Hebrew shalom behind the Arabic Suleiman, so one name covers the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions at once.
Boy Hebrew #422 in US
Willa Willa is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute" or "will".
Girl Germanic #422 in US
Opal Opal means the gem, and it is the only major stone whose name may come from Sanskrit — upala, a precious stone, reaching Greek and Latin through the trade routes rather than from a European root.
Girl English #423 in US
Boone Boone is a boy's name of Norman French origin.
Boy English #423 in US
Julius Julius means downy-bearded, and the family claimed descent from Venus — the Julii traced themselves to Iulus, son of Aeneas, which is the genealogy Virgil wrote the Aeneid to dignify.
Boy Latin #424 in US
Marceline Marceline is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars".
Girl Latin #425 in US
Isaias Isaias is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh is salvation".
Boy Hebrew #426 in US
Veronica Veronica is a girl's name from a Latin phrase meaning true image, and the saint behind it was invented to explain a relic — the cloth came first, and the woman was named after it.
Girl Latin #427 in US
Leona Leona means lioness, and our data marks it reviving across six markets — the United States 429th, France 556th, Scotland 631st, Ireland 705th and England and Wales 716th, all within 290 places.
Girl Latin #429 in US
Nehemiah Nehemiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord comforts".
Boy Hebrew #429 in US
Pablo Pablo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," the Spanish form of Paul.
Boy Spanish #431 in US
London London is a girls' name in America and barely used in England — 81 percent of the births in our records are female, it ranks 431st in the United States, and 3355th in the country containing the city it names.
Unisex American #431 in US
Lewis Lewis is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the English form of Louis.
Boy English #433 in US
Travis Travis is a boy's name from an occupational surname meaning a toll collector, one who worked at a crossing.
Boy English #434 in US
Vienna Vienna is a girl's name taken from the Austrian capital, whose own name is Celtic and unresolved.
Girl Celtic #434 in US
Moshe Moshe is a boy's name of Hebrew origin, the original form of Moses.
Boy Hebrew #435 in US
Frederick Frederick is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "peaceful ruler."
Boy Germanic #436 in US
Mario Mario is a boy's name from a Roman family name of uncertain meaning, and the video game character was named after a real landlord — Mario Segale, who owned the warehouse Nintendo rented in Seattle.
Boy Italian #438 in US
Macie Macie is a girl's name of Norman French origin, a respelling of Macy.
Girl Norman French #439 in US
Payton Payton means Pæga's farm, from an English place name — and it is 71 percent female in our records, having crossed over from an entirely masculine surname within a generation.
Unisex English #440 in US
Sergio Sergio means servant, from a Roman family name that is probably Etruscan — and Virgil gave the Sergii a Trojan ancestor, which is the Aeneid doing genealogical work for Rome's aristocracy.
Boy Italian #441 in US
Lorelei Peaked in 2016 · 21,580 births since 1916
Girl Italian #441 in US
Valentino Valentino is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "strong" or "healthy".
Boy Latin #444 in US
Uriel Uriel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my light".
Boy Hebrew #445 in US
Prince Prince is a boy's name taken from the title, from the Latin princeps — literally "the one who takes first place".
Boy Latin #447 in US
Mariah Mariah shows the sharpest single-artist effect in our data.
Girl English #448 in US
Dalton Dalton means the settlement in the valley, and Northern Ireland ranks it 305th — above the United States at 448th, which is unexpected for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
Boy English #448 in US
Alma Alma is a girl's name with several competing origins: "nourishing" in Latin, "soul" in Spanish, and "young woman" in Hebrew.
Girl Latin #450 in US
Bo Bo is a boy's name of Scandinavian origin meaning "to live" or "to dwell".
Boy Scandinavian #450 in US

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