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.

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18,177 names, most popular first in the United States

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Titus Titus is a boy's name of Latin origin whose meaning is unknown.
Boy Latin #358 in US
Camilla Camilla is a girl's name of Latin origin naming a young attendant at a religious rite.
Girl Latin #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
Helena Helena is a girl's name of Greek origin whose meaning is unresolved, and its saint is credited with finding the True Cross.
Girl Greek #363 in US
Matilda Matilda is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "mighty in battle."
Girl Germanic #364 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
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
Forrest Forrest is one of only two names in this group birth records mark as rising, and it is on its second life — American births ran 490 in 2018 and 862 in 2025, having collapsed from a 1994 peak twenty years before.
Boy English #374 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
Clark Clark means a clergyman, and the job drifted — a clericus was in holy orders, but since the clergy were the ones who could write, the word slid across to mean anyone who kept records, which is what a clerk still is.
Boy English #378 in US
Ivory Ivory is a unisex name taken from the material, whose word comes through French and Latin from an Egyptian word for elephant.
Unisex English #378 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
Winston Winston is a boy's name of English origin meaning "Wine's settlement", from an Old English personal name plus tun.
Boy English #382 in US
Khalil Khalil is a boy's name of Arabic origin meaning "friend" — specifically a close and trusted one.
Boy Arabic #384 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
Liana Liana is a girl's name with two sources. It is a short form of Juliana, Eliana and similar names, and independently the botanical word for a woody climbing vine — from the French lier, to bind, which is also the root of liaison.
Girl French #386 in US
Baylor Baylor is a unisex name of English origin whose meaning is unsettled.
Unisex English #386 in US
Kalani Kalani is a unisex name of Hawaiian origin meaning "the heavens" or "the royal one".
Unisex Hawaiian #387 in US
Elio Elio is a boy's name of Italian origin meaning "sun," from the Greek helios.
Boy Italian #388 in US
Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.
Unisex English #389 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
Ari Ari is a unisex name with several unrelated origins.
Unisex Hebrew #393 in US
Murphy Murphy is a unisex name of Irish origin meaning "sea warrior".
Unisex Irish #397 in US
Marcelo Marcelo is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "of Mars".
Boy Latin #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
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
King King is a boy's name taken from the English title, from the Old English cyning.
Boy English #405 in US
Leandro Leandro is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "lion-man," borne by a lover who drowned swimming a strait to reach her.
Boy Italian #406 in US
Augustus Augustus is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "venerable" or "consecrated".
Boy Latin #407 in US
Remy Remy is a name of Latin origin meaning "oarsman" or "rower."
Boy Latin #408 in US
Annalise Annalise is a girl's name of German origin, a compound of Anna and Liese.
Girl German #409 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
Alayah Alayah is a girl's name with two unrelated sources.
Girl Arabic #412 in US
Koda Koda is a boy's name with more than one claimed source.
Boy Disputed #412 in US
Hank Hank is a boy's name of Germanic origin, a short form of Henry meaning "home ruler".
Boy Germanic #413 in US
Nalani Nalani is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin meaning "the heavens".
Girl Hawaiian #414 in US
Kaysen Kaysen is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Kayson or Cason.
Boy American #415 in US

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