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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Antoine Antoine is a boy's name from the Roman family name Antonius, the French form of Anthony.Boy French #1,716 in US
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Valencia Peaked in 1970 · 12,966 births since 1919Girl languages of Saint Kitts and Nevis #1,721 in US
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Gerard Gerard is a boy's name from Germanic elements meaning brave with the spear.Boy Germanic #1,722 in US
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Kristina Kristina means a follower of Christ, the Scandinavian and Slavic form of Christina.Girl Scandinavian #1,727 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.