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.

Rankings for

8,721 names, most popular first in United States

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Knox Knox is a boy's name of Scottish origin meaning "round hill."
Boy Scottish #196 in US
Ashton Ashton is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree settlement."
Unisex English #197 in US
Olive Olive is a girl's name of Latin origin taken from the tree, whose name comes from oliva.
Girl Latin #197 in US
Sara Sara is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "princess" or "noblewoman."
Girl Hebrew #198 in US
Peyton Peyton is a name of Old English origin meaning "Pæga's settlement."
Unisex English #199 in US
Rory Rory is a name of Irish and Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "red king."
Unisex Irish #199 in US
Andres Andres is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "manly" or "brave."
Boy Greek #200 in US
Mabel Mabel is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "lovable."
Girl Latin #201 in US
Noelle Noelle is a girl's name of French origin meaning "Christmas."
Girl French #202 in US
Timothy Timothy is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "honoring God."
Boy Greek #203 in US
Stevie Stevie is a name of Greek origin meaning "crown" or "garland."
Unisex Greek #203 in US
Vera Vera is a girl's name with two origins that both work. In Russian it means "faith"; in Latin vera means "true" — and unusually for such a pair, the two senses reinforce rather than contradict each other.
Girl Slavic #205 in US
Celine Celine is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "heavenly."
Girl Latin #207 in US
Bailey Bailey is a name of Old French origin meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
Unisex French #208 in US
Victor Victor is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "conqueror."
Boy Latin #209 in US
Adaline Adaline is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble."
Girl Germanic #209 in US
Abraham Abraham is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
Boy Hebrew #210 in US
Myla Myla is a girl's name whose origin is unsettled.
Girl Disputed #210 in US
Miguel Miguel is a boy's name meaning who is like God, the Spanish and Portuguese form of Michael.
Boy Spanish #212 in US
Zara Zara is a girl's name with more than one origin. It is read as "radiance" or "blossom" from the Arabic zahrah, and as a form of Sarah, meaning "princess," from Hebrew — and both readings are in active use.
Girl Arabic #212 in US
Arabella Arabella is a girl's name whose origin is disputed.
Girl Latin #213 in US
Lennon Lennon is a unisex name of Irish origin, an anglicized form of the surname Ó Leannáin.
Unisex Irish #214 in US
Bentley Bentley means the bent-grass clearing, and its rise is one of the sharpest we record — American births went 666 in 2009 to 4,009 in 2010, a six-fold jump in a single year.
Boy English #215 in US
Dahlia Dahlia is a girl's name taken from the flower, which was named in honor of the Swedish botanist Anders Dahl.
Girl Swedish #215 in US
Zachary Zachary is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered."
Boy Hebrew #216 in US
Baker Baker is a boy's name of English origin, an occupational surname for someone who baked bread.
Boy English #217 in US
Rafael Rafael is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God heals."
Boy Hebrew #218 in US
Joel Joel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin that joins two names for God, and the prophet's book supplied the line quoted at Pentecost.
Boy Hebrew #219 in US
Tyler Tyler is a boy's name from a medieval trade — a man who laid roof tiles — and the leader of the Peasants' Revolt carried it as a job description.
Boy English #220 in US
Ada Ada is a girl's name with two origins. In Germanic it is a short form of names beginning with adal, noble; in Hebrew, Adah means "adornment" and belongs to two women in Genesis.
Girl Germanic #220 in US
Kevin Kevin is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "gentle birth," and its saint founded Glendalough and by tradition lived to 120.
Boy Irish #221 in US
Jane Jane is a girl's name from the Hebrew for God is gracious, the English feminine of John.
Girl English #221 in US
Griffin Griffin peaked in 2023, more recently than any other name in this group, and it is not named for the beast — the Welsh Gruffudd came first, and the resemblance to the griffin is coincidence.
Boy Welsh #222 in US
Oscar Oscar is a boy's name with two competing origins: the Irish os, deer, plus cara, friend, giving "deer lover," or the Old Norse Ásgeirr, meaning "god's spear."
Boy Irish #223 in US
Elise Elise is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my oath," a short form of Elizabeth.
Girl French #223 in US
Edward Edward is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "wealthy guardian."
Boy English #224 in US
Presley Presley is a unisex name of English origin meaning "priest's meadow".
Unisex English #225 in US
Gracie Gracie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "grace."
Girl Latin #227 in US
Grant Grant means tall or large, from a Norman French nickname — and it has nothing to do with granting or giving, which is a different word that arrived in English by a separate route.
Boy Scottish #228 in US
Simon Simon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "he has heard," borne by the apostle Peter before his renaming.
Boy Hebrew #230 in US
Abel Abel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "breath" or "vapour."
Boy Hebrew #231 in US
Alex Alex is a name of Greek origin meaning "defender of mankind."
Boy Greek #232 in US
Palmer Palmer is a unisex name of English origin meaning a pilgrim, specifically one who had returned from the Holy Land carrying a palm frond as proof of the journey.
Unisex English #232 in US
Justin Justin is a boy's name from the Latin for just or righteous.
Boy Latin #233 in US
Richard Richard is a boy's name from Germanic roots meaning strong or brave ruler.
Boy Germanic #234 in US
Patrick Patrick is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "nobleman."
Boy Latin #235 in US
Andrea Andrea is a name meaning "manly" or "brave," from the Greek aner.
Girl Greek #235 in US
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
Girl Arabic #236 in US

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