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Cullen
Cullen peaked in 2010, precisely when the Twilight saga was at maximum cultural saturation, and it has been slowly recalibrating ever since. Now ranked #1129 with 16,394 total SSA…
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Dalary
Dalary is a name that exists almost entirely as an American creation — a constructed Spanish-influenced name that peaked in 2017 and has just under 3,000 SSA records. It's rare, d…
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Dalilah
Dalilah is an alternate spelling of Delilah that distances itself from the biblical villain and lands closer to a phonetic transcription of the Arabic original. With 4,935 SSA rec…
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Danilo
Danilo is the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Slavic form of Daniel — the Hebrew name meaning "God is my judge" — carrying the same biblical name through the Mediterranean and S…
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Darien
Darien is a Persian-origin name, variant of Darius, from the Old Persian Dārayavahush , meaning "possessing goodness" or "he who holds firm the good." It also references the Darie…
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Dayton
Dayton is an Old English place name meaning "day settlement" or "bright town" that arrived in American first-name use through the nineteenth-century tradition of honoring place na…
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Decker
Decker peaked in 2022 and sits at #1185 — a German-origin occupational surname name that's caught the attention of parents who want something with an edge. Solid, short, and unamb…
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Demetrius
Demetrius is a Greek name meaning "devoted to Demeter" — the goddess of grain, harvest, and the fertility of the earth — that carries the full weight of classical antiquity: it wa…
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Devyn
Devyn is a phonetic respelling of Devon or Devin — an Irish name meaning "poet" or "fawn," with possible connections to the English county of Devon — given a Y that signals gender…
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Dhruv
Dhruv is a Sanskrit name meaning "fixed," "immovable," or "the North Star" — from the Sanskrit root dhruva (firm, steadfast, permanent). With 4,279 SSA records and a 2019 peak, Dh…
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Draven
Draven arrived in the American naming landscape through a 1994 film and never entirely left. Ranked #1120 with a peak in 2009 and 7,545 total SSA uses, it is a name with a specifi…
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Edmund
Edmund peaked in 1923, has over 51,000 total registered uses, and is currently ranked #1182 — sitting in exactly the space where the most interesting vintage revivals begin. It ha…
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Eider
Eider is a Celtic-rooted name with a 2024 peak and only 538 SSA records — making it one of the rarest names in this entire rank range. What Eider lacks in statistical ubiquity it…
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Eleni
Eleni is the Modern Greek form of Helen, one of the most ancient and storied names in Western history, and it peaked in 2024 as American parents discovered the original-language f…
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Ellen
Ellen has 275,048 SSA records — the kind of total that points to generations of consistent use. A medieval English form of Helen, it peaked in 1951 and spent decades as a reliable…
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Ellison
Ellison is a surname name with Old English roots meaning "son of Ellis" — and like Bennett, Parker, and Sawyer, it's been migrating from boy's name to girl's name with increasing…
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Emi
Emi is a Japanese name with multiple possible meanings depending on the kanji characters used to write it, most commonly blessing and beauty or smile and beauty. It peaked in 2024…
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Emmalyn
Emmalyn is what happens when you take one of the most popular names in recent American history and add enough to make it your own. A constructed extension of Emma with the -lyn su…
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Emrys
Emrys is the Welsh name of Merlin — the wizard beneath the legend, the name the sorcerer carried before Arthurian tradition absorbed him. Ranked #1138 with a peak in 2024 and 1,15…
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Ever
Ever is an Old English word name — meaning "always" or "at all times" — that has been crossing into given-name territory with a 2023 peak and 4,294 SSA records. Short, clean, and…
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