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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Alexa Alexa did not simply collapse when Amazon launched the Echo — it rose first.Girl Greek #1,030 in US
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Brodie Brodie is a boy's name of Scottish origin taken from a place near Forres in Moray.Boy Scottish #1,038 in US
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Billy Billy is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."Boy Germanic #1,068 in US
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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.