Invented Names

Names with a traceable moment of creation. Where the inventor left no record of what they meant, these pages say the meaning is unknown rather than supplying one, which is the difference between a reference and a guess.

9 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in the United States

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A decade page lists the names children were given in those years, in order, with the counts.

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