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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Fernanda Peaked in 2009 · 21,455 births since 1914
Girl #552 in US
Drew Drew shortens Andrew, meaning manly, and there is a second unrelated Drew from a Germanic word for a ghost or phantom.
Unisex English #554 in US
Armando Armando means army man, and it is the same name as Herman — one Germanic compound that reached Spanish through the Visigoths and English through the Normans, ending up unrecognisably different.
Boy Spanish #556 in US
Stephanie Stephanie is a girl's name from the Greek for crown or garland, the feminine of Stephen.
Girl Greek #557 in US
Saul Saul means asked for, and the Hebrew Bible appears to have attached his wordplay to the wrong man — the puns on asking in the birth of Samuel fit Sha'ul far better than they fit Shemuel.
Boy Hebrew #557 in US
Jacqueline Jacqueline is a girl's name, the French feminine of Jacques, and it inherits the meaning supplanter from Jacob.
Girl French #558 in US
Margo Margo is a girl's name meaning "pearl."
Girl French, Greek #559 in US
Mavis Mavis is a girl's name from the old word for the song thrush, from French mauvis.
Girl French, English #560 in US
Porter Peaked in 2015 · 22,815 births since 1880
Boy #560 in US
Lilian Lilian is the most evenly split name in this whole sweep — 46 percent of recorded births are female, because France uses it for boys and the English-speaking markets use it for girls.
Unisex English #561 in US
Della Della has no single parent — it shortens Adela, Delia and Adelaide alike, and it is reviving, at 563rd in the United States and 1,010th in Scotland.
Girl English #563 in US
Garrett Garrett means spear-strength or spear-rule, and it descends from two different Germanic names that medieval English speakers could no longer tell apart.
Boy English #564 in US
Nadia Nadia means hope, from the Russian word, and it charts in all seven markets — Ireland 293rd, Scotland 312th, Northern Ireland 329th, England and Wales 501st, the United States 565th and France 754th.
Girl Russian #565 in US
Andy Andy means manly, and the Greek root is the ordinary word for a man — so Andrew is one of the few apostles carrying a Greek name rather than a Hebrew or Aramaic one.
Boy English #565 in US
Rocky Rocky is a boy's name that began as a nickname for Rocco and similar names, or for a tough person.
Boy American, Italian #568 in US
Amalia Amalia is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "work" or "industrious," from the same root as Amelia and quite separate from the Latin for love.
Girl Germanic #568 in US
Roberto Roberto means bright fame, the Italian and Spanish form of Robert, and both halves of the compound mean roughly the same thing — which is normal in Germanic naming rather than a redundancy.
Boy Italian #569 in US
Allie Allie means noble, and it serves three different names at once — Alice, Allison and Alexandra all shorten to it, so which one a given Allie belongs to cannot be read off the name itself.
Girl English #570 in US
Enrique Enrique means ruler of the estate, and the home in it is territorial rather than domestic — the Germanic element named the land a lord held, not the house he lived in.
Boy Spanish #571 in US
Lina Lina is a girl's name with two separate sources: an Arabic word for a young palm tree, and a European short form of names ending in -lina such as Carolina and Angelina.
Girl Arabic #572 in US
Johan Johan means God is gracious, and it ranks 393rd in France against 572nd in the United States — a Scandinavian and Dutch form of John that does better in French than in either English-speaking market.
Boy Scandinavian #572 in US
Estelle Estelle means star, and France and the United States rank it within 55 places of each other — 518th and 573rd — which is unusually close for a French name in an English-speaking market.
Girl French #573 in US
Clay Clay means the earth a potter works, and it carries a creation story in almost every tradition — Genesis forms Adam from the ground, and Mesopotamian and Egyptian accounts do the same with clay.
Boy English #573 in US
Emanuel Emanuel began as a sign rather than a name — Isaiah tells Ahaz that a child will be called God with us as proof of a prophecy, and the phrase became a personal name only afterward.
Boy Hebrew #574 in US
Jamie Jamie is a unisex name of Hebrew origin, a Scottish diminutive of James meaning "supplanter" or "holder of the heel."
Unisex Scottish #577 in US
Cleo Cleo is a name of Greek origin meaning "glory" or "fame."
Unisex Greek #577 in US
Allen Allen is a boy's name whose meaning is unknown — rock, handsome and deer have all been proposed from an unidentified Breton source.
Boy Breton #579 in US
Maximo Peaked in 2025 · 9,763 births since 1903
Boy #580 in US
Seth Seth is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "appointed" or "placed," given to Adam and Eve's third son after Cain killed Abel.
Boy Hebrew #581 in US
Reina Peaked in 2024 · 15,527 births since 1896
Girl #582 in US
Noemi Peaked in 2023 · 26,222 births since 1915
Girl #583 in US
Cassius Cassius is a boy's name from a Roman family, possibly derived from Latin cassus, "empty" or "vain."
Boy Latin #584 in US
Camilo Peaked in 2022 · 10,110 births since 1909
Boy Latin #585 in US
Jennifer Jennifer is a girl's name, the Cornish form of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar, the name of King Arthur's queen.
Girl Cornish #586 in US
Moises Peaked in 2001 · 31,584 births since 1893
Boy #587 in US
Mara Mara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "bitter," and it is the name Naomi asks to be called after losing her family.
Girl Hebrew #589 in US
Vicente Peaked in 2025 · 23,667 births since 1882
Boy Latin #589 in US
Paris Paris has two unrelated sources — the Trojan prince and the French city — and France barely uses it, ranking the name 7,188th while the United States has it at 592nd and 80 percent female.
Unisex Greek #592 in US
Gregory Gregory is a boy's name from the Greek for watchful or alert.
Boy Greek #593 in US
Reyna Peaked in 2024 · 19,436 births since 1913
Girl #594 in US
Louie Louie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior."
Boy Germanic #596 in US
Mina Mina is a girl's name with several independent origins.
Girl German, Persian, Sanskrit #596 in US
Alden Peaked in 2024 · 20,059 births since 1880
Boy #598 in US
Jonas Jonas means dove, and the prophet's story turns on it — a man named for the bird sent out to find land is himself sent overseas, refuses, and is carried there inside a fish instead.
Boy Hebrew #599 in US
Emelia Peaked in 2019 · 19,731 births since 1880
Girl #601 in US
Marina Marina means of the sea, and it charts in six markets inside 276 places — Scotland 572nd, England and Wales 581st, the United States 602nd, Ireland 647th and France 848th, which is an unusually even international spread.
Girl Latin #602 in US
Alejandra Alejandra means defender of men, and the Spanish form lost a consonant Greek never had trouble with — Alexandros became Alejandro because Spanish shifted the sh sound to the throaty j it uses today.
Girl Spanish #605 in US
Loretta Loretta comes from an Italian shrine, not from the laurel — Loreto is the town where the Holy House of Nazareth was said to have been carried by angels.
Girl Italian #606 in US

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