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.

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

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Timoteo Peaked in 2025 · 1,598 births since 1912
Boy #2,760 in US
Willard Willard means bold desire, and both halves are Germanic words about force of will — it is a surname from a personal name, and its American use is almost entirely nineteenth-century onward.
Boy English #2,761 in US
Fritz Peaked in 1956 · 7,552 births since 1880
Boy German #2,762 in US
Terence Terence has no known meaning, and its most famous bearer was a slave — the playwright Terence was North African, brought to Rome, freed, and became one of the two Latin comic dramatists whose work survives.
Boy Latin #2,763 in US
Gareth Peaked in 2016 · 11,949 births since 1916
Boy Welsh #2,765 in US
Dwight Dwight descends from Dionysus, the Greek god of wine — through the medieval woman's name Diot, a pet form of Dionysia, which is an unusually indirect route for a masculine surname.
Boy English #2,766 in US
Arch Peaked in 1880 · 2,572 births since 1880
Boy #2,780 in US
Sheldon Peaked in 1992 · 41,334 births since 1881
Boy #2,782 in US
Arlie Peaked in 1921 · 9,911 births since 1880
Unisex #2,782 in US
Brigid Peaked in 2000 · 9,881 births since 1917
Girl #2,784 in US
Britton Peaked in 2011 · 8,376 births since 1896
Unisex #2,784 in US
Josey Peaked in 2012 · 4,314 births since 1915
Unisex #2,786 in US
Mills Peaked in 2025 · 1,045 births since 1882
Unisex #2,788 in US
Adin Peaked in 2007 · 3,589 births since 1914
Boy #2,789 in US
Joie Peaked in 2019 · 3,222 births since 1915
Girl #2,789 in US
Jaclyn Jaclyn compresses Jacqueline, and the name underneath means heel-grabber — Jacob was born gripping his twin's heel, and every Jack, Jacques and Jacqueline descends from that description.
Girl American #2,790 in US
Arlin Peaked in 1935 · 4,920 births since 1910
Unisex #2,790 in US
Janet Janet is a girl's name, a Scottish diminutive of Jane meaning God is gracious.
Girl Scottish #2,797 in US
Weldon Peaked in 1920 · 14,279 births since 1881
Boy #2,797 in US
Juanita Juanita is a girl's name meaning God is gracious, the Spanish diminutive of Juana.
Girl Spanish #2,798 in US
Silvio Peaked in 1922 · 4,674 births since 1905
Boy Italian #2,798 in US
Suzanna Peaked in 1973 · 11,316 births since 1892
Girl Dutch #2,803 in US
Tina Tina is a girl's name that serves as the tail end of several unrelated names — Christina, Martina, Valentina and Bettina — so its meaning depends entirely on which one a family had in mind.
Girl Latin #2,804 in US
Mona Mona in Mona Lisa is not a name — it contracts ma donna, my lady, so the painting's title is closer to Madam Lisa than to anyone called Mona.
Girl Irish #2,806 in US
Ammon Peaked in 2002 · 4,352 births since 1881
Boy #2,806 in US
Wynona Peaked in 1930 · 3,973 births since 1899
Girl #2,807 in US
Selma Selma may have been invented by a forger — the name appears in Macpherson's Ossian poems of the 1760s, which he presented as ancient Gaelic epic and largely wrote himself.
Girl German #2,810 in US
Dino Peaked in 1960 · 11,054 births since 1912
Boy #2,810 in US
Truly Peaked in 2025 · 1,211 births since 1915
Girl #2,811 in US
Rivers Peaked in 2021 · 2,737 births since 1910
Unisex #2,812 in US
Roberta Roberta is a girl's name meaning bright fame, the feminine of Robert.
Girl Germanic #2,813 in US
Cato Peaked in 2025 · 730 births since 1880
Boy Dutch #2,814 in US
Vittoria Peaked in 2023 · 2,921 births since 1918
Girl Italian #2,816 in US
Eugenia Peaked in 1919 · 30,813 births since 1880
Girl #2,821 in US
Roxanna Peaked in 1988 · 14,046 births since 1880
Girl #2,825 in US
Baltazar Peaked in 2001 · 2,794 births since 1915
Boy #2,828 in US
Rickey Rickey means strong ruler, and its peak is the largest in this group — 3,818 American births in 1958, against 45 in the most recent year on record.
Boy English #2,829 in US
Hollie Hollie is a girl's name from the holly tree, whose name comes from a word meaning "prickly" rather than anything festive.
Girl English #2,832 in US
Emiko Peaked in 2022 · 2,024 births since 1916
Girl #2,834 in US
Kirsten Kirsten means a follower of the anointed one, and the anointing is literal — Christ translates the Hebrew mashiach, and both words describe someone smeared with oil at a coronation rather than a divine title.
Girl Scandinavian #2,839 in US
Maybelle Peaked in 1918 · 6,512 births since 1880
Girl #2,841 in US
Wyndham Peaked in 2025 · 169 births since 1918
Boy #2,842 in US
Gigi Peaked in 1962 · 5,075 births since 1940
Girl #2,843 in US
Caesar Peaked in 2015 · 5,649 births since 1880
Boy #2,844 in US
Colleen Colleen means girl in Irish, and it is barely used in Ireland — it is an Irish-American name rather than an Irish one.
Girl Irish #2,845 in US
Jarvis Peaked in 1989 · 18,772 births since 1882
Boy #2,845 in US
Laurie Laurie is a name meaning laurel, and it is mixed by country — masculine in Britain as a short form of Laurence, feminine in America as a short form of Laura.
Girl Latin #2,847 in US
Carmello Peaked in 2011 · 2,214 births since 1913
Boy #2,847 in US

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