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.
1,838 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in the United States
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Charlemagne Charlemagne is a rare boy's name meaning "Charles the Great," from the French form of Latin Carolus Magnus.Boy French, Germanic 9 in 2025
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