Millennial Names

Names that crested around the turn of the century. Still falling in the records, and the group most likely to be described as timeless by people who were at school with four of them.

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7 names, most popular first in United States

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Jaylen Jaylen has no etymology, and the meanings offered for it contradict each other — healer, tranquil, devoted to Jove and supplanter all appear online, which is what happens when sources fill a blank.
American #361 in US
Jocelyn Jocelyn began as a man's name for a Germanic tribe — the Gauts — and turned female in twentieth-century America. About 90 percent of the births in our records are now female.
French #393 in US
Rylan Rylan has no documented source, and the little king gloss repeated for it is unsupported — the likeliest reading is rye land, an English place name, but even that is not established.
English #416 in US
Jaden Jaden is a modern American name with a genuine biblical original behind it — Jadon appears once in Nehemiah, as a man who helped rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and almost nothing else is known of him.
American #421 in US
London London is a girls' name in America and barely used in England — 81 percent of the births in our records are female, it ranks 431st in the United States, and 3355th in the country containing the city it names.
American #431 in US
Paris Paris has two unrelated sources — the Trojan prince and the French city — and France barely uses it, ranking the name 7188th while the United States has it at 592nd and 80 percent female.
Greek #592 in US
Jaiden Jaiden belongs to the -aiden rhyming family invented in America in the 1990s, and the Hebrew meanings offered for it are attached to a coinage — thankful one and God will judge cannot both be right.
American #618 in US

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