Modern Names

Names that did not exist, or barely existed, before the twentieth century. Many are respellings, surnames or coinages, and their histories are shorter and better documented than anything older.

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38,600 names, most popular first in United States

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Kaylani Kaylani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, generally read as "the heavens" or "heavenly one."
Girl Hawaiian #185 in US
Aziel Aziel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is my strength," from elements meaning strength and God.
Boy Hebrew #186 in US
Haven Haven is a name of Old English origin meaning "harbor" or "place of safety."
Unisex English #190 in US
Callan Callan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "battle" or "rock."
Boy Irish #190 in US
Blakely Blakely is a name of Old English origin meaning either "black clearing" or "pale clearing."
Girl English #191 in US
Chase Chase is a boy's name of Old French origin meaning "huntsman."
Boy French #192 in US
Legend Legend is a boy's name taken directly from the English word, which comes from the Latin legenda, meaning "things to be read."
Boy English #193 in US
Tate Tate is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning "cheerful."
Boy Norse #194 in US
Everleigh Everleigh is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed by respelling the English surname Everly.
Girl English #194 in US
Alora Alora is a girl's name of modern coinage with no settled origin.
Girl Disputed #195 in US
Ashton Ashton is a name of Old English origin meaning "ash tree settlement."
Unisex English #197 in US
Jaziel Jaziel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God allots" or "God apportions."
Boy Hebrew #198 in US
Peyton Peyton is a name of Old English origin meaning "Pæga's settlement."
Unisex English #199 in US
Caden Caden is a boy's name of modern American coinage with no documented origin.
Boy Modern coinage #201 in US
Kylie Kylie is a girl's name usually said to mean "boomerang" in an Australian Aboriginal language.
Girl Disputed #204 in US
Kingston Kingston is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "the king's settlement."
Boy English #204 in US
Camden Camden is a boy's name of English origin meaning "enclosed valley."
Boy English #205 in US
Finn Finn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fair" or "white."
Boy Irish #206 in US
Messiah Messiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "anointed one."
Boy Hebrew #207 in US
Bailey Bailey is a name of Old French origin meaning "bailiff" or "steward."
Unisex French #208 in US
Myla Myla is a girl's name whose origin is unsettled.
Girl Disputed #210 in US
Maddox Maddox means son of Madoc, and Madoc is the prince who supposedly reached America in 1170 — a legend the Tudors found useful, since it would have given England a claim predating Spain's.
Boy Welsh #211 in US
Aitana Aitana is a girl's name taken from a mountain range in Alicante, and it was effectively created by one poet — Rafael Alberti named his daughter after the Sierra de Aitana in 1941.
Girl Spanish #211 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
Malakai Malakai is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my messenger".
Boy Hebrew #213 in US
Zayden Zayden is a boy's name of modern American coinage, formed by attaching the -ayden ending to a Z.
Boy Modern coinage #214 in US
Lennon Lennon is a unisex name of Irish origin, an anglicized form of the surname Ó Leannáin.
Unisex Irish #214 in US
Zachary Zachary is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord has remembered."
Boy Hebrew #216 in US
Selah Selah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin whose meaning is genuinely unknown.
Girl Hebrew #216 in US
Saylor Saylor is a girl's name with two separate origins that have converged. As an American surname it usually comes from the German Seiler, a ropemaker, and it is also read as a respelling of the English word sailor.
Girl German #217 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
Elianna Elianna is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "my God has answered".
Girl Hebrew #218 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
Brianna Brianna is a girl's name, the feminine of Brian, whose Irish meaning has never been securely established.
Girl Irish #222 in US
Presley Presley is a unisex name of English origin meaning "priest's meadow".
Unisex English #225 in US
Cohen Cohen is a boy's name from the Hebrew word for priest, and a surname marking descent from the priestly line of ancient Israel.
Boy Hebrew #225 in US
Noa Noa is a unisex name with two separate origins: a Hebrew girls' name meaning "movement," borne by one of the daughters of Zelophehad, and a short form of Noah.
Unisex Hebrew #226 in US
Kairo Kairo is a boy's name taken from Cairo, the Egyptian capital, respelled with a K.
Boy Arabic #226 in US
Callahan Callahan is a unisex name of Irish origin, anglicized from Ó Ceallacháin.
Unisex Irish #227 in US
Brayden Brayden is a modern American invention with a real Irish surname behind it, and it peaked in 2010 — one of the latest peaks on this site.
Boy Irish #229 in US
Kiara Kiara is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "bright" or "clear."
Girl Latin #229 in US
Wren Wren is a name of Old English origin taken from the bird, from wrenna.
Unisex English #231 in US
Maisie Maisie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "pearl."
Girl Greek #233 in US
Brody Brody is a boy's name of Scottish origin taken from a place near Forres in Moray.
Boy Scottish #236 in US
Nyla Nyla is a girl's name with more than one plausible origin.
Girl Arabic #236 in US
Kaiden Kaiden has no etymology, because it was invented — it is one of the -aiden rhyming names built in America in the 1990s, and the Arabic and Japanese origins asserted for it online are attached to a coinage rather than found in a source.
Boy American #237 in US
Muhammad Muhammad is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "praiseworthy" or "the praised one."
Boy Arabic #239 in US
Cataleya Cataleya is a girl's name taken from the cattleya orchid, and its use is traceable to a single film.
Girl Modern coinage #239 in US

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