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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Carolyn Carolyn is a girl's name, an English elaboration of Caroline meaning free man through Charles.Girl English #1,222 in US
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Guadalupe Guadalupe is half Arabic and half Latin — wadi, a valley or river, joined to a word for a wolf.Unisex Spanish #1,248 in US
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Pierre Pierre is a boy's name, the French form of Peter, from the Greek for rock.Boy French #1,253 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.