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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Chester Chester is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "fortress" or "walled camp."Boy Latin 107 in 2025
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Yvette Yvette is a girl's name from a Germanic word for the yew tree, by way of Breton.Girl French 128 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.