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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Glenn Glenn is a boy's name from the Gaelic word for a narrow valley, and like Craig and Dale it is a plain landscape noun.Boy Scottish Gaelic 124 in 2025
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Annette Annette is a girl's name meaning grace, a French diminutive of Anne.Girl French 149 in 2025
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Pia Pia is a girl's name from Latin meaning dutiful or devout, the feminine of Pius.Girl Latin 148 in 2025
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Dominique Dominique is a French name meaning of the Lord, given to children born on a Sunday.Unisex French 172 in 2025
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Randall Randall is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning shield-wolf.Boy Germanic 117 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.