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.

Rankings for

8,721 names, most popular first in the United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Obed Peaked in 2005 · 4,396 births since 1880
Boy #2,056 in US
Marta Peaked in 1957 · 20,556 births since 1888
Girl #2,061 in US
Star Peaked in 1997 · 9,707 births since 1919
Girl #2,062 in US
Octavius Peaked in 1991 · 3,799 births since 1911
Boy Latin #2,064 in US
Everardo Peaked in 2004 · 4,926 births since 1915
Boy #2,066 in US
Annabel Peaked in 2014 · 30,204 births since 1880
Girl Dutch #2,071 in US
Hernan Peaked in 1995 · 5,255 births since 1921
Boy #2,071 in US
Bobbie Bobbie is 83 percent female on record and England and Wales ranks it 523rd on 110 births — far above the United States at 2,072nd, reversing what an American nickname-name would usually do.
Unisex English #2,072 in US
Marko Peaked in 2006 · 7,387 births since 1892
Boy #2,073 in US
Devora Peaked in 2023 · 2,998 births since 1915
Girl #2,074 in US
Lake Peaked in 2022 · 4,584 births since 1891
Unisex Seediq #2,076 in US
Alpha Peaked in 1917 · 11,762 births since 1880
Unisex #2,077 in US
Stratton Peaked in 2022 · 1,605 births since 1920
Boy #2,083 in US
Fredy Peaked in 2005 · 7,342 births since 1919
Boy #2,084 in US
Gina Gina is not one name — it is the ending of several different ones, and which name it shortens changes the meaning entirely.
Girl Italian #2,086 in US
Evans Peaked in 2024 · 7,013 births since 1880
Boy #2,086 in US
Emile Emile is a boy's name from a Roman family name whose meaning is uncertain — rival and eager are both proposed, and neither is settled.
Boy French #2,093 in US
Crawford Peaked in 1924 · 4,975 births since 1880
Boy #2,095 in US
Kari Kari descends from the same unexplained Greek root as Kaitlin in this group, but by a Scandinavian route — through Karen and Katarina rather than through Irish, and the pure gloss is equally unproven on both paths.
Girl Scandinavian #2,096 in US
Stiles Peaked in 2024 · 965 births since 1913
Boy #2,097 in US
Mordecai Peaked in 2022 · 1,743 births since 1912
Boy #2,098 in US
Omer Peaked in 1918 · 17,573 births since 1880
Boy #2,103 in US
Athalia Peaked in 2025 · 1,171 births since 1915
Girl #2,104 in US
Brenton Peaked in 1984 · 15,405 births since 1912
Boy #2,106 in US
Ivette Peaked in 1991 · 11,730 births since 1945
Girl Spanish #2,106 in US
Artist Peaked in 2022 · 928 births since 1916
Boy #2,109 in US
Prudence Peaked in 1943 · 8,251 births since 1880
Girl Polish #2,112 in US
Minerva Peaked in 1955 · 16,062 births since 1880
Girl #2,113 in US
Rosario Peaked in 1993 · 18,234 births since 1896
Unisex #2,115 in US
Darryl Darryl does not mean darling.
Boy French #2,117 in US
Bridgette Peaked in 1970 · 24,548 births since 1943
Girl French #2,119 in US
Hardin Peaked in 2021 · 1,391 births since 1880
Boy #2,123 in US
Robbie Robbie is a unisex name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame," a diminutive of Robert.
Unisex Scottish #2,124 in US
Von Peaked in 1958 · 6,108 births since 1898
Boy #2,126 in US
Arvin Peaked in 2017 · 7,159 births since 1887
Boy #2,136 in US
Adelia Peaked in 2017 · 7,647 births since 1880
Girl Swedish #2,137 in US
Lizzie Lizzie means my God is an oath, and the oath is the point — Elisheva names a covenant rather than a feeling, which is why the name belonged to the wife of a priest in Exodus.
Girl English #2,142 in US
Sabine Sabine names a people rather than a quality — the Sabines were an Italic tribe Rome absorbed early, and the abduction of their women is one of Rome's founding stories.
Girl French #2,143 in US
Braulio Peaked in 2005 · 5,138 births since 1915
Boy #2,143 in US
Alexandre Alexandre is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "defender of mankind," the French form of Alexander.
Boy French #2,148 in US
Ofelia Peaked in 1929 · 9,476 births since 1900
Girl #2,148 in US
Isabell Peaked in 2006 · 16,280 births since 1880
Girl #2,151 in US
Adair Peaked in 2007 · 3,234 births since 1914
Unisex #2,151 in US
Oswald Peaked in 1916 · 5,589 births since 1880
Boy #2,152 in US
Tracy Tracy is a Norman place name that became a surname, then a boys' name, then overwhelmingly a girls' name — about 81 percent of recorded births are female.
Unisex Norman #2,155 in US
Hosea Peaked in 1925 · 5,773 births since 1880
Boy #2,156 in US
Wendell Wendell names a people rather than a quality — the Wends were the Slavic populations of eastern Germany, so the name records who someone's neighbors thought they were rather than anything they did.
Boy German #2,158 in US
Rosalinda Peaked in 2000 · 15,818 births since 1914
Girl #2,160 in US

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