Fading Names
Names on the way down. Not a warning: a falling name is a name fewer children in the class will share, and roughly half of the vintage list spent decades here first.
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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Mathis Mathis is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God," a French form of Matthias.Boy French #3,318 in US
Or Browse by Decade
A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.