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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Rome Rome is a boy's name taken from the city, whose own name has no agreed derivation.
Boy Latin #452 in US
Madeleine Madeleine is a girl's name meaning "of Magdala," a fishing town on the Sea of Galilee, and it is a place name rather than a description.
Girl French #454 in US
Pedro Pedro means stone, and the name records a nickname Jesus gave — Simon was renamed Cephas in Aramaic, which Greek translated as Petros, so the pun on rock survives through three languages.
Boy Spanish #456 in US
Jake Jake is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "supplanter," a short form of Jacob that became a name in its own right.
Boy English #457 in US
Clementine Clementine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "merciful."
Girl Latin #457 in US
Johnny Johnny is a boy's name, the pet form of John, meaning God is gracious.
Boy English #458 in US
Elisa Elisa means my God is an oath, shortened from Elizabeth, and France ranks it 202nd — its strongest market, ahead of England and Wales at 377th, Ireland at 382nd and the United States at 458th.
Girl Italian #458 in US
Rocco Rocco is a boy's name of Germanic origin, generally read from a root meaning rest or repose.
Boy Germanic #459 in US
Alicia Alicia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," a Latinate form of Alice.
Girl Germanic #460 in US
Reece Reece means ardor, and its England and Wales peak of 1,828 in 1996 is far larger than anything the United States has recorded — a Welsh name that reached America late and never matched its home scale.
Boy Welsh #460 in US
Helen Helen is a girl's name from Greek whose meaning is not settled, though torch and shining are the usual readings.
Girl Greek #461 in US
Esteban Esteban is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "crown," the Spanish form of Stephen, whose bearer was the first Christian martyr.
Boy Spanish #461 in US
Lucian Lucian is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "light".
Boy Latin #462 in US
Mack Mack means son of, and on its own it is only half a name — the Gaelic mac is a prefix, so using it alone is like naming a child Junior with nothing in front of it.
Boy Scottish #463 in US
Michelle Michelle is a girl's name, the French feminine of Michel, from a Hebrew question meaning who is like God.
Girl French #465 in US
Monroe Monroe is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "mouth of the Roe" — a river in Ireland, not Scotland.
Unisex Scottish #467 in US
Fabian Fabian means bean grower, and the general who carried it gave English a word for winning by refusing to fight — Fabian tactics, and the Fabian Society that named itself after his patience.
Boy Latin #468 in US
Meredith Meredith is a Welsh man's name that turned female in America — 95 percent of the births in our records are female, and the Welsh Maredudd it comes from was borne by princes of Deheubarth.
Girl Welsh #469 in US
Maren Peaked in 2021 · 13,941 births since 1916
Girl #471 in US
Alexandria Alexandria is the city before it is the name — Alexander founded it in 331 BC, and the feminine given name was formed from the place rather than directly from Alexandra, which took a different route.
Girl Greek #474 in US
Ford Peaked in 2021 · 11,482 births since 1880
Boy #474 in US
Winnie Winnie is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "blessed reconciliation."
Girl Welsh #475 in US
Royal Royal is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Latin regalis — of a king.
Unisex English #476 in US
Alison Alison means little Alice, and Alice means noble — but the Norman name behind it is a heavy compression of the Germanic Adalheidis, so the noble is all that survived of a longer compound.
Girl French #477 in US
Samson Peaked in 2025 · 17,584 births since 1892
Boy Hebrew #477 in US
Noel Noel means Christmas, and its American peak was 2014 — the most recent peak of any name in this group by a wide margin.
Unisex French #478 in US
Ruben Ruben is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "behold, a son."
Boy Hebrew #480 in US
Renata Peaked in 1980 · 15,656 births since 1900
Girl Latin #481 in US
Adan Peaked in 2005 · 33,794 births since 1904
Boy Seediq #482 in US
Asa Asa is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "healer" or "physician".
Boy Hebrew #483 in US
Hezekiah Peaked in 2024 · 11,943 births since 1880
Boy Hebrew #485 in US
Edgar Edgar is a boy's name meaning wealthy spear, and it is one of very few Old English names still in wide use.
Boy English #487 in US
Sean Sean is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "God is gracious," the Irish form of John by way of Norman French.
Boy Irish #489 in US
Rodrigo Peaked in 2007 · 30,102 births since 1918
Boy #491 in US
Amanda Amanda is a girl's name from the Latin for she who must be loved, and one of the few names on this site that can be dated to a specific literary invention — Colley Cibber used it for a character in his 1696 play Love's Last Shift.
Girl Latin #493 in US
Collin Collin doubles the L of Colin, and the name underneath has two unrelated sources — a French pet form of Nicolas, and the Scottish Gaelic Cailean, which share nothing but a spelling.
Boy American #493 in US
Arlette Arlette is nearly extinct in France — five births last year — while rising sharply in America, where births went from 238 in 2020 to 600 in 2025.
Girl French #494 in US
Leland Leland means fallow land — ground deliberately left unplowed for a season.
Boy English #494 in US
Maxine Maxine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "greatest," a feminine form of Maximus.
Girl French #496 in US
Donovan Donovan means dark brown, and the Irish surname behind it belonged to a king who backed the wrong side — the Uí Donnabháin lost their lands after opposing Brian Boru in the tenth century.
Boy Irish #496 in US
Edith Edith is a girl's name of Old English origin meaning "prosperous in war."
Girl English #499 in US
Royce Peaked in 2019 · 36,898 births since 1892
Boy #499 in US
Mae Mae is a girl's name in France, generally read as a form of Mae or as a feminine of the Breton Mahé.
Girl French #500 in US
Brantley Peaked in 2014 · 33,238 births since 1893
Boy #500 in US
Bianca Bianca means white, and France ranks it 242nd — ahead of Ireland at 373rd, the United States at 501st, England and Wales at 548th and Scotland at 742nd.
Girl Italian #501 in US
Damon Damon means one who tames, and the story attached to it is about friendship — Damon and Pythias each offered to die in the other's place, which persuaded a tyrant to release them both.
Boy Greek #501 in US
Pierce Peaked in 2015 · 23,641 births since 1880
Boy #505 in US
Mariam Mariam is a girl's name of Hebrew origin and a spelling of Maryam, the Arabic and Aramaic form of Miriam.
Girl Hebrew #506 in US

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