Rising Names

Measured from the birth records, not asserted. A name is rising here because its recent years are ahead of its earlier ones in the register — not because anyone declared it a name to watch.

Every name here is placed by how its recent years in the birth records compare with its earlier ones — so the list moves as the records do.

Rankings for

18,177 names, most popular first in United States

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Adelina Adelina is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Girl Germanic #305 in US
Francesca Francesca is a girl's name of Italian origin meaning "free one" or "Frenchwoman."
Girl Italian #307 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
Octavia Octavia is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "eighth".
Girl Latin #308 in US
Harlow Harlow is a unisex name from an Essex place name meaning "army hill," most likely a mound where a Saxon assembly met rather than a battlefield.
Unisex English #309 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
Amina Amina is a girl's name of Arabic origin meaning "trustworthy" or "secure."
Girl Arabic #315 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
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
Kali Kali is a girl's name of Sanskrit origin naming the Hindu goddess, from kala meaning both black and time.
Girl Sanskrit #323 in US
Niko Niko is a boy's name of Greek origin, a short form of Nikolaos meaning "victory of the people".
Boy Greek #325 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
Zuri Zuri is a girl's name of Swahili origin meaning "beautiful".
Girl Swahili #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
Viviana Viviana is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "alive".
Girl Italian #331 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
Orion Orion is a boy's name of Greek origin, borne by the mythological hunter and the constellation named for him.
Boy Greek #334 in US
Mira Mira is a girl's name that arrives from at least four unrelated directions — Latin for wonderful, Slavic for peace, Sanskrit through the poet Mirabai, and the name of a variable star.
Girl Latin #335 in US
Anaya Anaya is a girl's name whose origin is genuinely disputed.
Girl Sanskrit #336 in US
Gideon Gideon is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "hewer" or "one who cuts down".
Boy Hebrew #337 in US
Paxton Paxton is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Pæcc's farmstead".
Boy English #338 in US
Emory Emory is a unisex name of Germanic origin, a variant of Emery.
Unisex English #339 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
Sterling Sterling is a unit of money that became a name, and the coin was probably named for a bird — the little star on early Norman pennies gives one account, and a starling stamped on them gives the other.
Boy English #345 in US
Aylin Aylin is a girl's name of Turkish origin meaning "moon halo".
Girl Turkish #345 in US
Wells Wells is a boy's name of English origin meaning someone who lived by a spring.
Boy English #347 in US
Ezequiel Ezequiel is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "God strengthens".
Boy Hebrew #348 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
Leonel Leonel is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "little lion".
Boy Latin #350 in US
Ibrahim Ibrahim is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "father of many."
Boy Hebrew #351 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
Santino Santino is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "little saint".
Boy Italian #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
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

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