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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Kamila Kamila is a girl's name with two separate sources. It is the Czech, Polish and Slovak form of Camilla, from the Latin; and independently an Arabic name from kamil, meaning complete or perfect.
Girl Latin #356 in US
Briggs Briggs is a boy's name of English origin meaning someone who lived by a bridge.
Boy English #356 in US
Adelyn Adelyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Girl Germanic #357 in US
Itzel Itzel is a girl's name of Maya origin whose meaning is genuinely contested.
Girl Maya #359 in US
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.
Unisex American #361 in US
Briella Briella is a girl's name of Hebrew origin, a short form of Gabriella meaning "God is my strength".
Girl Hebrew #362 in US
Anderson Anderson is a boy's name of Scottish and Scandinavian origin meaning "son of Andrew".
Boy Scottish #363 in US
Kaizen Kaizen is a boy's name taken from the Japanese word for continuous improvement, written with characters meaning change and good.
Boy Japanese #364 in US
Kayla Kayla is a girl's name with no established etymology, an American coinage of the 1950s that a soap opera turned into a top-name.
Girl uncertain #365 in US
Onyx Onyx is a unisex name taken from the banded black stone, whose Greek name onyx means "fingernail" or "claw".
Unisex Greek #365 in US
Ariyah Ariyah is a girl's name whose spelling is modern American but whose roots run in several directions.
Girl Disputed #367 in US
Kyaire Kyaire is a boy's name of modern American coinage.
Boy American #367 in US
Alaya Alaya is a girl's name with two unrelated sources.
Girl Arabic #368 in US
Miller Miller is a unisex name of English origin, the occupational surname for someone who ground grain into flour.
Unisex English #369 in US
Raya Raya is a girl's name with several unrelated origins.
Girl Arabic #369 in US
Adhara Adhara is a girl's name taken from a star — the second brightest in Canis Major — whose name comes from the Arabic al-adhara, meaning "the maidens".
Girl Arabic #370 in US
Jordyn Jordyn respells Jordan, and the river came first — the name means flowing down, describing the Jordan's fall from the Galilee hills to the lowest exposed land on earth.
Girl American #371 in US
Malani Malani is a girl's name of uncertain origin.
Girl Disputed #374 in US
Kayce Kayce is a unisex name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Casey or of the initials K.
Unisex Irish #375 in US
Daxton Daxton is a boy's name of modern American coinage.
Boy American #379 in US
Demi Demi is a girl's name usually explained as French for "half", from the Latin dimidius.
Girl French #380 in US
Lawson Lawson is a boy's name of English origin meaning "son of Law", where Law is a medieval short form of Lawrence.
Boy English #381 in US
Blaire Blaire is a girl's name of Scottish origin meaning "plain" or "field", from the Gaelic blàr.
Girl Scottish #384 in US
Baylor Baylor is a unisex name of English origin whose meaning is unsettled.
Unisex English #386 in US
Londyn Londyn is a girl's name, a respelling of the city of London.
Girl English #388 in US
Elio Elio is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "sun," from the Greek helios.
Boy Italian #388 in US
Kieran Kieran means little dark one, and Scotland ranks it 259th — above Ireland at 361st and the United States at 389th, which is not where an Irish saint's name would be expected to lead.
Boy Irish #389 in US
Iker Iker is a boy's name of Basque origin meaning "visitation".
Boy Basque #390 in US
Kamari Kamari is a unisex name usually connected to the Arabic qamar, the moon, and also used as a Swahili name and as a modern American coinage.
Unisex Arabic #391 in US
Jay Jay is a name serving as an initial-letter shortening for any J name, as a bird name, and as an Indian name meaning victory.
Boy English #392 in US
Kaliyah Kaliyah is a girl's name of modern American coinage, formed on the pattern of Aaliyah and Amaliyah.
Girl American #392 in US
Danna Danna is a girl's name with two sources. In Spanish-speaking use it is a modern form of Daniela, from the Hebrew for God is my judge; in English it is a respelling of Dana, an older name whose own origin is disputed.
Girl Hebrew #394 in US
Zander Zander is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Alexander meaning "defender of men".
Boy Greek #396 in US
Murphy Murphy is a unisex name of Irish origin meaning "sea warrior".
Unisex Irish #397 in US
Melany Melany is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "black" or "dark".
Girl Greek #398 in US
Briar Briar is a unisex name taken from the English word for a thorny shrub, especially wild rose or bramble.
Unisex English #400 in US
Kashton Kashton is a boy's name of modern American coinage, joining Kash to the TON ending taken from Braxton and Paxton.
Boy American #400 in US
Kian Kian is a boy's name with two unrelated origins.
Boy Irish #401 in US
Kylo Kylo is a boy's name invented for Star Wars in 2015.
Boy Invented #402 in US
Raven Raven means the bird, and the bird was a war omen before it was a goth accessory — Norse and Anglo-Saxon poetry lists the raven with the wolf and the eagle as the beasts that follow an army.
Girl English #404 in US
Kyler Kyler has no agreed source, and the two accounts point in different directions — a Dutch occupational surname for an archer, or simply Kyle with an -er ending attached in America. Our records carry it from 1922, with almost all volume after 1995.
Boy American #404 in US
King King is a boy's name taken from the English title, from the Old English cyning.
Boy English #405 in US
Lana Lana is a girl's name with several competing origins — a Hawaiian word for calm, a Slavic short form of Svetlana, and a Hollywood invention of the 1930s.
Girl Hawaiian #406 in US
Brynn Brynn is a girl's name of Welsh origin meaning "hill".
Girl Welsh #407 in US
Remy Remy is a name of Latin origin meaning "oarsman" or "rower."
Boy Latin #408 in US
Rhys Rhys is a boy's name of Welsh origin meaning "ardor" or "enthusiasm," and it gave English the surname Price by way of a Welsh word for son.
Boy Welsh #410 in US
Mckenna Mckenna means son of the fire god, and the name is 100 percent female in our records — the Mac is a literal patronymic and Cionaodh names a pre-Christian deity, neither of which has been softened.
Girl Irish #410 in US
Journey Journey is a girl's name taken from the English word, from the Old French journee — which meant a day's work or a day's travel.
Girl English #411 in US

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