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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Shannon Shannon is a name from Ireland's longest river, and it is 86 percent female in our records.Unisex Irish #2,397 in US
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Suzanne Suzanne is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "lily," from shoshannah.Girl French #2,401 in US
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Jeanette Jeanette means God is gracious, a French double diminutive of Jeanne.Girl French #2,406 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.