Unisex Unisex Names

Names given to boys and girls in real numbers, not merely in theory. The traffic is almost always one-way — names move from boys to girls and rarely back — so a name that is unisex today usually will not be in twenty years.

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143 names, most popular first in the United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.
Hebrew #358 in US
Onyx Onyx is a unisex name taken from the banded black stone, whose Greek name onyx means "fingernail" or "claw".
Greek #365 in US
Miller Miller is a unisex name of English origin, the occupational surname for someone who ground grain into flour.
English #369 in US
Kayce Kayce is a unisex name of modern American coinage, a respelling of Casey or of the initials K.
Irish #375 in US
Baylor Baylor is a unisex name of English origin whose meaning is unsettled.
English #386 in US
Sunny Sunny is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Old English sunne.
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.
Arabic #391 in US
Ari Ari is a unisex name with several unrelated origins.
Hebrew #393 in US
Murphy Murphy is a unisex name of Irish origin meaning "sea warrior".
Irish #397 in US
Briar Briar is a unisex name taken from the English word for a thorny shrub, especially wild rose or bramble.
English #400 in US
Taylor Taylor is an occupational surname meaning one who cuts cloth, now used mostly for girls at 72 percent female.
English #403 in US
Remy Remy is a name of Latin origin meaning "oarsman" or "rower."
Latin #408 in US
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
English #418 in US
Salem Salem is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "complete" or "at peace".
Hebrew #436 in US
Payton Payton means Pæga's farm, from an English place name — and it is 71 percent female on record, having crossed over from an entirely masculine surname within a generation.
English #440 in US
Reign Reign is a unisex name taken from the English word for rule or sovereignty, from the Latin regnum.
English #452 in US
Monroe Monroe is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "mouth of the Roe" — a river in Ireland, not Scotland.
Scottish #467 in US
Azariah Azariah is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh has helped".
Hebrew #472 in US
Royal Royal is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Latin regalis — of a king.
English #476 in US
Noel Noel means Christmas, and its American peak was 2014 — the most recent peak of any name in this group by a wide margin.
French #478 in US
Camryn Camryn is a unisex name, used mostly for American girls, and it's a modern spelling of Cameron.
Scottish #478 in US
Rowen Rowen is a unisex name with two sources. It is a variant of Rowan, the tree name and the Irish Ó Ruadháin from a word for red; and separately an English dialect word for a second crop of hay cut in the same season.
Irish #486 in US
Armani Armani is a unisex name of Italian origin, a surname meaning "son of Armanno" — a Germanic name built from elements for army and man.
Italian #495 in US
Alexis Alexis is a Greek name meaning helper or defender, and it is split by country: a boys' name in France, where it ranks 256th, and majority female in the United States.
Greek #513 in US
Denver Denver is a unisex name of English origin meaning "the Danes' crossing".
English #520 in US
Gianni Gianni is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "God is gracious," the Italian short form of Giovanni.
Italian #523 in US
Rio Rio is a name of Spanish and Portuguese origin meaning "river."
Spanish #532 in US
Frankie Frankie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "free man" or "Frenchman."
Germanic #551 in US
Drew Drew shortens Andrew, meaning manly, and there is a second unrelated Drew from a Germanic word for a ghost or phantom.
English #554 in US
Sevyn Sevyn is a unisex name of modern American coinage, a respelling of the number seven.
English #574 in US
Jamie Jamie is a unisex name of Hebrew origin, a Scottish diminutive of James meaning "supplanter" or "holder of the heel."
Scottish #577 in US
Amiri Amiri is a unisex name of Arabic origin meaning "princely" or "of a commander".
Arabic #604 in US
Halo Halo is a unisex name taken from the ring of light, whose Greek root halos meant a threshing floor — the circular patch of ground where oxen trod in circles to separate grain.
Greek #612 in US
Campbell Campbell is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "crooked mouth".
Scottish #617 in US
Memphis Memphis is a unisex name from the ancient Egyptian capital, the Greek form of Men-nefer, "enduring and beautiful."
Egyptian, Greek #639 in US
Quincy Quincy is a unisex name of Norman French origin meaning "estate of Quintus".
English #652 in US
Noor Noor is a name of Arabic origin meaning "light."
Arabic #659 in US
Layne Layne is a unisex name meaning "a small road," from the English surname Lane, which described someone living by a narrow path.
English #662 in US
Legacy Legacy is a unisex American word name meaning "something handed down," from the English noun.
Latin, English #663 in US
Skyler Skyler is Dutch and means a scholar — it respells Schuyler, a surname carried by one of New York's founding families, and it has nothing to do with the sky despite the spelling.
Dutch #670 in US
Amani Amani is a unisex name with two main sources.
Swahili, Arabic #678 in US
Robin Robin is a name of Germanic origin meaning "bright fame."
Germanic #704 in US
Ocean Ocean is a unisex name taken from the English word, which comes through Latin from the Greek Okeanos — a Titan who was the great river the Greeks believed encircled the whole world, rather than a word for the sea itself.
Greek #717 in US
Bellamy Bellamy is a unisex name from an English surname, derived from Old French bel ami, "beautiful friend."
French #721 in US
Sol Sol is a unisex name meaning "sun," from Latin and Spanish sol and Old Norse sól.
Latin, Spanish, Hebrew #722 in US
Charley Charley means free man, and it is one of the few mixed names on this site — 39 percent of recorded births are female, and it is rising.
English #763 in US
Jessie Jessie is a name that arrives from two unrelated directions — the Scottish pet form of Janet, and a feminine of the Hebrew Jesse.
Scottish #823 in US
Kelly Kelly is a name from the Irish surname Ó Ceallaigh, borne almost entirely by men for most of its history and now 86 percent female on record.
Irish #851 in US

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