Scattered Names

Names that appear in the records, disappear, and come back — never in continuous use, and never quite gone either. A gap can mean nobody was given the name that decade, or that too few were for it to be published; both say the same thing about how rare it has always been.

Rankings for

9,521 names, most popular first in the United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Luca Luca is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Italian form of Luke.
Boy Latin #14 in US
Asher Asher is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "happy" or "blessed."
Boy Hebrew #28 in US
Leonardo Leonardo is a boy's name of Germanic origin meaning "brave as a lion," from leo, lion, and hard, brave or hardy.
Boy Germanic #91 in US
Everly Everly is a girl's name of English origin, from a place name meaning "boar meadow" — the Old English eofor, a wild boar, and leah, a clearing.
Girl English #91 in US
Emiliano Emiliano is a boy's name of Latin origin, the Spanish and Italian form of Aemilianus, from the Roman family name Aemilius.
Boy Latin #94 in US
Hailey Hailey is a girl's name of English origin meaning "hay clearing," from the Old English heg, hay, and leah, a woodland clearing.
Girl English #104 in US
Sawyer Sawyer is a name of English origin meaning "one who saws wood."
Unisex English #122 in US
Scottie Scottie is a name meaning "a Scot," a pet form of Scott.
Unisex Latin #126 in US
Alina Alina is a girl's name with several origins. It functions as a short form of Adelina and so means "noble," from the Germanic adal; a Slavic line connects it to light or bright; and an Arabic reading gives "noble" from a different root entirely.
Girl Germanic #130 in US
Stetson Stetson is a name of English origin meaning "son of Stephen."
Boy English #136 in US
Jameson Jameson is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "son of James."
Boy Hebrew #137 in US
Beckett Beckett is a boy's name of Old English origin, most likely meaning "bee cottage" or "stream."
Boy English #141 in US
Zion Zion is a name of Hebrew origin naming the hill in Jerusalem, and by extension the city and the promised land itself.
Unisex Hebrew #142 in US
Matteo Matteo is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "gift of God."
Boy Hebrew #146 in US
Summer Summer is a girl's name of Old English origin taken from the season, from sumor.
Girl English #152 in US
Diego Diego is a boy's name of Hebrew origin, the Spanish form of James.
Boy Hebrew #158 in US
Sage Sage is a name of Latin origin meaning "wise."
Unisex Latin #160 in US
Jayce Jayce is a boy's name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Jason or a stretched form of Jay.
Boy Modern coinage #167 in US
Beckham Beckham is a boy's name of Old English origin meaning "homestead by the stream."
Boy English #168 in US
Jett Jett is a boy's name of Greek origin meaning "jet black."
Boy Greek #169 in US
Barrett Barrett is a boy's name of disputed origin.
Boy Disputed #171 in US
Sutton Sutton is a name of Old English origin meaning "southern settlement."
Unisex English #181 in US
Chase Chase is a boy's name of Old French origin meaning "huntsman."
Boy French #192 in US
Finn Finn is a boy's name of Irish origin meaning "fair" or "white."
Boy Irish #206 in US
Bentley Bentley means the bent-grass clearing, and its rise is one of the sharpest we record — American births went 666 in 2009 to 4,009 in 2010, a six-fold jump in a single year.
Boy English #215 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
Wren Wren is a name of Old English origin taken from the bird, from wrenna.
Unisex English #231 in US
Shepherd Shepherd is a boy's name of English origin, the occupational surname for someone who tended sheep.
Boy English #246 in US
Adalyn Adalyn is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "noble".
Girl Germanic #260 in US
Bodhi Bodhi is a boy's name of Sanskrit origin meaning "awakening" or "enlightenment."
Boy Sanskrit #265 in US
Bodie Bodie is a boy's name with no single agreed origin.
Boy Disputed #275 in US
Harmony Harmony began as a carpentry term — the Greek harmonia is a fitting-together, from harmos, a joint, so the word described how timbers met long before it described how notes sound.
Girl Greek #276 in US
Lilith Lilith is a girl's name of Mesopotamian origin, from a class of night spirits called lilitu in Akkadian.
Girl Akkadian #277 in US
Atticus Atticus is a boy's name of Latin origin meaning "from Attica", the region of Greece around Athens.
Boy Latin #281 in US
Jensen Jensen is a Danish surname meaning son of Jens, now used as a given name for both boys and girls.
Unisex Danish #282 in US
Kash Kash is a boy's name with two unrelated sources.
Boy English #286 in US
Meadow Meadow is a girl's name from the English word for grassland, whose root means "to mow" — so a meadow is defined by being cut.
Girl English #286 in US
Cash Cash is a boy's name of English origin meaning a maker of boxes or cases.
Boy English #287 in US
Lennox Lennox is a unisex name from a Scottish district whose name means "place of elm trees," and it is recorded as unisex.
Unisex Scottish #289 in US
Dakota Dakota means friend or ally in the Dakota language, and it is one of very few widely used names taken from an Indigenous North American language.
Unisex Native American #295 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
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
Sabrina Sabrina is the Latin name of the River Severn, and the legend behind it is a drowning — a princess thrown into the river became its spirit.
Girl Latin #321 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
Miley Miley is a girl's name best known from Miley Cyrus, whose own was a nickname from smiley.
Girl English #338 in US
Malia Malia is a girl's name of Hawaiian origin, the Hawaiian form of Mary.
Girl Hawaiian #350 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

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