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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Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets we track.Girl English 350 in 2025
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Keith Keith is a boy's name from a Scottish place name, probably from a Brittonic word for a wood.Boy Scottish 311 in 2025
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Douglas Douglas is a boy's name from the Scottish Gaelic for dark water, originally a river and then a powerful border family.Boy Scottish Gaelic 308 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.