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.

Rankings for

179 names, most popular first in United States

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Girls Boys Unisex

Collins Collins is a unisex name with two separate origins. In Ireland it anglicizes Ó Coileáin, from a word for a young hound; in England it is a patronymic meaning son of Colin, itself a medieval pet form of Nicholas.
Unisex Irish #241 in US
Milan Milan is a unisex name of Slavic origin meaning "gracious" or "dear," from the element mil.
Unisex Slavic #242 in US
Ellis Ellis is a name of Hebrew origin meaning "the Lord is my God."
Unisex Hebrew #243 in US
Kyrie Kyrie is a unisex name of Greek origin meaning "lord".
Unisex Greek #244 in US
Reagan Reagan means little king, and our data shows the opposite of what most people assume — American births more than halved during the first two years of Ronald Reagan's presidency and did not take off until a decade after he left office.
Unisex Irish #248 in US
Aspen Aspen is a unisex name of English origin taken from the tree, whose leaves tremble in the slightest wind.
Unisex English #266 in US
Karter Karter is a unisex name of English origin, a respelling of Carter, the occupational surname for someone who drove a cart.
Unisex English #270 in US
Shiloh Shiloh is a unisex name of Hebrew origin taken from a place rather than a word, the sanctuary town where the Israelites kept the Ark of the Covenant.
Unisex Hebrew #278 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
Lennox Lennox is a unisex name from a Scottish district whose name means "place of elm trees," and our data records it 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
Blake Blake is a name of Old English origin with two opposite meanings.
Boy English #296 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
Harlow Harlow is a unisex name from an Essex place name meaning "army hill," most likely a mound where a Saxon assembly met rather than a battlefield.
Unisex English #309 in US
Morgan Morgan is a Welsh name meaning sea-born, and it charts in all seven markets we track within a range of just over three hundred places — one of the most evenly distributed names on this site.
Unisex Welsh #312 in US
Casey Casey is a name of Irish origin meaning "vigilant" or "watchful."
Unisex Irish #320 in US
Marley Marley is a name of Old English origin meaning "boundary wood" or "pleasant meadow."
Unisex English #322 in US
Navy Navy is a unisex name taken from the English word for a fleet, which comes through French from the Latin navis, a ship.
Unisex English #327 in US
Kendall Kendall means the valley of the River Kent, and Scotland ranks it 309th — above the United States at 329th, which is unusual for a name whose modern use is almost entirely American.
Unisex English #329 in US
Phoenix Phoenix meant several things at once in Greek — the bird, the color purple-red, the date palm and a Phoenician — and the word cannot be reduced to any one of them without discarding the others.
Unisex Greek #329 in US
Finley Finley is a name of Scottish Gaelic origin meaning "fair-haired warrior."
Unisex Scottish #333 in US
Emory Emory is a unisex name of Germanic origin, a variant of Emery.
Unisex English #339 in US
Teagan Teagan is a unisex name of Irish origin, usually derived from Tadhgán, a diminutive of Tadhg meaning "poet".
Unisex Irish #340 in US
Leighton Leighton is a unisex name of English origin meaning "herb garden settlement".
Unisex English #342 in US
Sydney Sydney is a name from a French place name — Saint-Denis, contracted by English speakers — and the Australian city was named after a man who bore it.
Girl English #348 in US
Ariel Ariel means lion of God, and The Little Mermaid moved it hard and briefly.
Unisex Hebrew #358 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
Miller Miller is a unisex name of English origin, the occupational surname for someone who ground grain into flour.
Unisex English #369 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
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
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
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
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
Taylor Taylor is an occupational surname meaning one who cuts cloth, now used mostly for girls at 72 percent female.
Unisex English #403 in US
Remy Remy is a name of Latin origin meaning "oarsman" or "rower."
Boy Latin #408 in US
Harley Harley is a name of Old English origin meaning "hare's meadow."
Unisex English #418 in US
Lian Lian is a unisex name with several unrelated sources.
Unisex Chinese #428 in US
Salem Salem is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "complete" or "at peace".
Unisex Hebrew #436 in US
Payton Payton means Pæga's farm, from an English place name — and it is 71 percent female in our records, having crossed over from an entirely masculine surname within a generation.
Unisex English #440 in US
Reign Reign is a unisex name taken from the English word for rule or sovereignty, from the Latin regnum.
Unisex English #452 in US
Monroe Monroe is a unisex name of Scottish origin meaning "mouth of the Roe" — a river in Ireland, not Scotland.
Unisex Scottish #467 in US
Meredith Meredith is a Welsh man's name that turned female in America — 95 percent of the births in our records are female, and the Welsh Maredudd it comes from was borne by princes of Deheubarth.
Girl Welsh #469 in US
Azariah Azariah is a unisex name of Hebrew origin meaning "Yahweh has helped".
Unisex Hebrew #472 in US
Royal Royal is a unisex name taken from the English word, from the Latin regalis — of a king.
Unisex English #476 in US

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