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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Blake Blake is a name of Old English origin with two opposite meanings.
Boy English #296 in US
Holden Holden is a boy's name of English origin meaning "deep valley".
Boy English #297 in US
Leia Leia is a girl's name whose modern use comes almost entirely from Star Wars.
Girl Invented #297 in US
Sonny Sonny is a boy's name of English origin meaning exactly what it looks like — son.
Boy English #298 in US
Esme Esme is a girl's name of Old French origin meaning "esteemed" or "beloved."
Girl French #298 in US
Elowyn Elowyn is a girl's name of disputed origin.
Girl Modern coinage #299 in US
Evelynn Evelynn is a girl's name of Norman French origin, a modern respelling of Evelyn with a doubled N.
Girl English #301 in US
Archie Archie is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "genuine and bold."
Boy Germanic #302 in US
Gavin Gavin is a boy's name from the Arthurian Gawain, whose meaning has never been established.
Boy Scottish #303 in US
Remington Remington is a unisex name of English origin, a place name meaning the settlement by the boundary stream.
Unisex English #307 in US
Elodie Elodie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "foreign riches."
Girl Germanic #310 in US
Banks Banks is a boy's name of English origin meaning someone who lived by a slope or a riverbank.
Boy English #310 in US
Colson Colson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Col", where Col is a medieval short form of Nicholas.
Boy English #311 in US
Eliam Eliam is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God of the people".
Boy Hebrew #313 in US
Sullivan Sullivan is a boy's name of Irish origin, from Ó Súilleabháin.
Boy Irish #314 in US
Zyaire Zyaire is a boy's name of modern American coinage, built on Zaire — the former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, itself from a Kikongo word for river.
Boy Kikongo #317 in US
Cody Cody is a boy's name of Irish origin, anglicising Ó Cuidighthigh, meaning "descendant of the helpful one."
Boy Irish #318 in US
Madisson Madisson is a girl's name of English origin, a respelling of Madison.
Girl English #319 in US
Samara Samara is a girl's name with several sources. In botany a samara is the winged seed of an elm or maple; it is also a Russian city on the Volga, an ancient Mesopotamian site, and a form of the Hebrew Shomron.
Girl Latin #320 in US
Marley Marley is a name of Old English origin meaning "boundary wood" or "pleasant meadow."
Unisex English #322 in US
Zane Zane peaked in 2018, later than almost any name in this group, and it entered American use as a surname — Zane Grey's westerns carried a family name that traces back to the founder of Zanesville, Ohio.
Boy American #324 in US
Aidan Aidan is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "little fire," from Aodh, the name of a fire god.
Boy Irish #326 in US
Alessia Alessia is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "defender".
Girl Greek #326 in US
Dariel Dariel is a boy's name with no settled origin.
Boy Disputed #327 in US
Navy Navy is a unisex name taken from the English word for a fleet, which comes through French from the Latin navis, a ship.
Unisex English #327 in US
Kaden Kaden is a modern American coinage rather than an inherited name — it belongs to the rhyming set with Aiden, Jaden and Brayden, and the Arabic and Welsh origins offered for it were attached afterwards.
Boy American #328 in US
Phoenix Phoenix meant several things at once in Greek — the bird, the color purple-red, the date palm and a Phoenician — and the word cannot be reduced to any one of them without discarding the others.
Unisex Greek #329 in US
Alayna Alayna is a girl's name, a modern respelling that sits between several older names.
Girl Disputed #332 in US
Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."
Unisex Scottish #333 in US
Lorelai Lorelai is a girl's name of German origin naming a rock on the Rhine, where a siren was said to lure boatmen to their deaths.
Girl German #333 in US
Anaya Anaya is a girl's name whose origin is genuinely disputed.
Girl Sanskrit #336 in US
Paxton Paxton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Pæcc's farmstead".
Boy English #338 in US
Miley Miley is a girl's name best known from Miley Cyrus, whose own was a nickname from smiley.
Girl English #338 in US
Teagan Teagan is a unisex name of Irish origin, usually derived from Tadhgán, a diminutive of Tadhg meaning "poet".
Unisex Irish #340 in US
Cairo Cairo is a boy's name taken from the Egyptian capital, whose Arabic name al-Qahirah means "the vanquisher".
Boy Arabic #341 in US
Jax Jax is a boy's name of modern coinage, a respelling of Jack or Jackson.
Boy Hebrew #342 in US
Leighton Leighton is a unisex name of English origin meaning "herb garden settlement".
Unisex English #342 in US
Ryleigh Ryleigh is a girl's name of English origin, a modern respelling of Riley.
Girl English #343 in US
Aylin Aylin is a girl's name of Turkish origin meaning "moon halo".
Girl Turkish #345 in US
Paige Paige is a girl's name from a medieval job title meaning a young male servant, and it reached women by way of a surname.
Girl English #346 in US
Wells Wells is a boy's name of English origin meaning someone who lived by a spring.
Boy English #347 in US
Kade Kade is a boy's name of English origin, a modern respelling of Cade.
Boy English #349 in US
Malia Malia is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, the Hawaiian form of Mary.
Girl Hawaiian #350 in US
Maryam Maryam is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, the Arabic form of Miriam and Mary.
Girl Hebrew #351 in US
Thea Thea is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "goddess."
Girl Greek #353 in US
Hendrix Hendrix is a boy's name of Dutch origin meaning "son of Hendrik", the Dutch form of Henry.
Boy Dutch #354 in US
Elora Elora is a girl's name with no settled origin.
Girl Invented #354 in US
Wrenlee Wrenlee is a girl's name of modern American coinage, joining the bird name Wren to the fashionable LEE ending.
Girl American #355 in US

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