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.

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8,721 names, most popular first in the United States

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Elina Elina is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "torch" or "bright," a Finnish, Baltic and Italian form of Helen.
Girl French #765 in US
Santos Peaked in 2025 · 21,749 births since 1880
Unisex #766 in US
Emmitt Peaked in 2019 · 14,810 births since 1880
Boy #769 in US
Christina Christina is a girl's name from the Latin for a follower of Christ, and the fullest of the family that includes Christine and Kristina.
Girl Latin #770 in US
Harry Harry is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Boy English #776 in US
Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets.
Girl English #777 in US
Alvaro Peaked in 2000 · 18,646 births since 1914
Boy Italian #777 in US
Corey Corey is a boy's name from an Irish surname, generally given as dweller near a hollow.
Boy Irish #779 in US
Evelina Peaked in 2025 · 8,840 births since 1880
Girl #779 in US
Ruthie Peaked in 1927 · 22,759 births since 1880
Girl #780 in US
Luella Peaked in 1918 · 33,623 births since 1880
Girl #781 in US
Tony Tony is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, whose meaning has never been established.
Boy Latin #783 in US
Paulina Peaked in 2002 · 22,648 births since 1880
Girl #783 in US
Alonso Peaked in 2010 · 12,939 births since 1915
Boy Spanish #785 in US
Belen Peaked in 2024 · 12,644 births since 1909
Girl #787 in US
Darius Darius means holding firm the good, and we know that because the king said so — the Behistun inscription has Darius the Great explain his own name and reign in three languages, carved on a cliff face.
Boy Persian #788 in US
Elouise Peaked in 2025 · 12,957 births since 1889
Girl #788 in US
Judith Judith is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "woman of Judea," borne by the heroine who beheads Holofernes in the deuterocanonical book named for her.
Girl Hebrew #789 in US
Elisha Peaked in 1980 · 37,807 births since 1880
Unisex #789 in US
Barron Peaked in 2025 · 5,735 births since 1913
Boy #790 in US
Ray Ray is a boy's name that serves as a short form of Raymond and as the English word for a beam of light.
Boy Germanic #792 in US
Rayna Peaked in 2019 · 16,089 births since 1932
Girl #795 in US
Thaddeus Peaked in 2016 · 26,642 births since 1880
Boy Aramaic #798 in US
Karla Karla means free man, and the Germanic word named a free peasant — so a name that now reads as aristocratic began at the bottom of the free classes and rose to name emperors.
Girl German #799 in US
Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.
Boy Scottish #800 in US
Aileen Aileen means hazel, most likely, and the shining gloss usually given for it comes from confusion with Helen — the Norman Aveline is the likelier parent, and it has nothing to do with light.
Girl Irish #800 in US
Zeke Peaked in 2022 · 9,211 births since 1880
Boy #802 in US
Janelle Janelle is an American elaboration rather than an inherited name — Jane with a French-looking ending attached, built in the twentieth century by the same habit that produced Danielle, Rochelle and Michelle.
Girl American #803 in US
Dalia Peaked in 1994 · 19,026 births since 1913
Girl #804 in US
Mccoy Peaked in 2025 · 4,739 births since 1905
Boy #805 in US
Douglas Douglas is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic for dark water, originally a river and then a powerful border family.
Boy Scottish Gaelic #807 in US
Treasure Peaked in 2021 · 9,370 births since 1935
Girl #809 in US
Jones Peaked in 2025 · 5,559 births since 1880
Boy #810 in US
Ty Ty has no source of its own — it shortens Tyler, Tyrone and Tyson, three names with nothing in common, so which one a given Ty belongs to cannot be read off the name.
Boy English #811 in US
Brock Brock means badger, and it is one of the oldest animal words in English — a Celtic borrowing that entered Old English before the Norman Conquest and survives in dialect to this day.
Boy English #813 in US
Kelsey Kelsey is a girl's name from an English place name, and its two proposed meanings — ship's victory and Cenel's island — have nothing in common.
Girl English #815 in US
Benedict Peaked in 2025 · 15,406 births since 1882
Boy Latin #815 in US
Aura Peaked in 2025 · 6,190 births since 1881
Girl #818 in US
Ira Ira means watchful, and it is 12 percent female on record despite being a man's name in the Hebrew Bible — one of David's priests carries it in Samuel.
Unisex Hebrew #819 in US
Livia Livia is a girl's name of Latin origin, a Roman family name usually connected to livere, meaning to be blue or envious, though the olive tree is often given instead.
Girl Latin #819 in US
Alberto Alberto means bright nobility, and both halves are compliments — the Germanic joins a word for noble descent to one meaning bright or famous, with nothing descriptive about the person at all.
Boy Italian #820 in US
Julietta Peaked in 2025 · 3,208 births since 1914
Girl #820 in US
Dane Peaked in 1986 · 37,086 births since 1898
Boy #821 in US
Alfredo Alfredo means counsel of the elves, and the elves were taken seriously — Anglo-Saxon naming treated them as beings whose advice was worth invoking, not as decoration for a children's story.
Boy Italian #822 in US
Nola Peaked in 2020 · 31,551 births since 1880
Girl #822 in US
Jessie Jessie is a name that arrives from two unrelated directions — the Scottish pet form of Janet, and a feminine of the Hebrew Jesse.
Unisex Scottish #823 in US
Teddy Teddy is a boy's name that shortens either Edward, meaning "wealthy guardian," or Theodore, meaning "gift of God."
Boy English #823 in US
Nelson Nelson means son of Neil, and the admiral made it a given name — it was a surname until Trafalgar, after which parents across the English-speaking world started using it as a first name outright.
Boy English #826 in US

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