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Nalani
Nalani peaked in 2024 and currently holds #529 , with just over 7,000 recorded bearers. It's a Hawaiian name meaning "the heavens" or "the skies" — a poetic compound that feels bo…
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Nehemiah
Nehemiah peaked in 2010 at rank 426 with 21,045 total American boys carrying the name, a 2010s biblical-revival peak that has held remarkably steady through the following decade.…
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Noah
Noah on a girl is a genuinely interesting naming choice in 2025 — because for decades it has been one of the most dominant boys' names in America, sitting in the top five for boys…
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Noemi
Noemi is the Italian and Spanish form of Naomi — and the difference between those two spellings tells a story about naming cultures. Naomi is the Anglo form that has dominated Ame…
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Odin
Odin is the king of the Norse gods — the Allfather, the wanderer, the god of wisdom, war, and poetry who sacrificed his eye at the well of Mimir in exchange for cosmic knowledge.…
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Opal
Opal carries 72,794 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 450 today, and reached its peak in 1918. The chart traces a sharp early-twentieth-century climb during th…
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Quinn
Quinn is one of the most successful gender-neutral names in modern American naming — and it got there from a firmly male Irish starting point. It peaked for boys around 2009 and c…
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Raegan
Raegan is what happens when parents love the sound of Reagan but want a spelling that looks unambiguously feminine and avoids the political baggage. It's a small typographic shift…
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Raphael
Raphael peaked in 2024 at rank 420 with 23,439 total American boys carrying the name, marking a contemporary high after decades of steady mid-chart use. The name's appeal cuts acr…
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Raven
Raven carries 44,135 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 388, with a 1993 peak. The chart traces a clean Gen-X-and-millennial arc: minimal pre-1985…
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Rayan
Rayan peaked in 2023 and sits at current rank #579 , with 8,394 total SSA bearers. It's the French and North African transliteration of the Arabic name Ryan — or more precisely, t…
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Raymond
Raymond peaked in 1924 at rank 379 with 778,955 total American boys carrying the name across the historical record, a remarkably high cumulative count that reflects nearly a centu…
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Reina
Reina peaked in 2024 and holds #553 , with just under 14,000 recorded bearers. It's the Spanish word for "queen" — direct, unambiguous, and completely functional as a given name i…
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Renata
Renata peaked in 1980 and now sits at #517 , with about 14,000 recorded bearers — a number that reflects its status as a quietly international name that never broke into the Ameri…
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Roberto
Roberto is Robert in Italian and Spanish — but calling it just a variant undersells the name. Roberto has a musical quality that Robert doesn't, and it's been carried by some of t…
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Rocco
Rocco is the most Italian name imaginable — two syllables, double consonant in the middle, ends in a vowel — and it wears that identity with complete confidence. It peaked in SSA…
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Rome
Rome peaked in 2024 at rank 453 with just 4,865 total American boys carrying the name, the second-smallest cumulative count in this rank tier. The numbers tell a clean story: this…
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Rosalia
Rosalia is the Latinate form of the rose family — longer and more ceremonial than Rose or Rosa, with the architectural quality that Italian and Spanish names carry so well. With o…
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Roy
Roy peaked in 1947. That places it firmly in the Silent Generation — older than Boomer names like Gary or Bruce, deeper into the vintage cycle. What's interesting is that Roy has…
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Russell
Russell peaked in 1960 at rank 367 and has settled into a long, gentle decline through the latter half of the twentieth century, with 358,820 total American boys having carried th…
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