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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Marin Marin is a unisex name of Latin origin meaning "of the sea," from the Roman Marinus.Unisex French 113 in 2025
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Robbie Robbie is a unisex name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame," a diminutive of Robert.Unisex Scottish 120 in 2025
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Shannon Shannon is a name from Ireland's longest river, and it is 86 percent female in our records.Unisex Irish 116 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.