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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Martha Martha is a girl's name of Aramaic origin meaning "lady" or "mistress of the house."Girl Aramaic 393 in 2025
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Adèle Adèle is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble," from the element adal.Girl French 362 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.