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.
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.
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Baylor Baylor is a unisex name of English origin whose meaning is unsettled.Unisex English #386 in US
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Nehemiah Nehemiah is a boy's name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord comforts".Boy Hebrew #429 in US
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Calliope Calliope is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "beautiful-voiced".Girl Greek #451 in US
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Odin Odin is a boy's name of Old Norse origin meaning roughly "the frenzied one".Boy Norse #502 in US
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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.