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NamesPop Editorial is the collective byline we use for research-led pieces that draw on multiple sources — linguistic studies, social science, historical data, and the NamesPop dataset itself.
Articles under this byline are written and edited by the NamesPop team and independent contributors, then reviewed against our editorial policy before publication. We use the collective byline when a piece synthesises existing research rather than reflecting a single writer's lived experience.
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Greyson
Greyson peaked in 2017 at rank 100 and has settled at 127 since. The name is the alternate-spelling sibling of Grayson, which sits separately on the chart at a higher position. To…
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Hailey
Hailey peaked in 2003 at rank 24 and is currently at #100. The name's American chart history is one of the cleaner examples of a 1990s-2000s phonetic spelling overtaking its more…
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Hallie
A short, soft-ending name with no single celebrity anchor or pop-culture moment usually doesn't reach an all-time SSA high in 2024. Hallie did exactly that, climbing from rank 350…
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Hannah
Hannah hit its modern peak in 2000 at No. 2, behind only Emily. The name has been on a slow decline for twenty-five years and now sits at No. 52, but the descent has been so gradu…
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Harrison
Harrison peaked in 2016 at rank 116 and has held remarkably close to that level ever since, sitting at 121 in 2024. The name occupies a specific niche in current American naming.…
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Hazel
Hazel peaked on the SSA chart in 1918, the same year Armistice Day ended the First World War. The name then slid steadily downward for sixty years, falling out of the top 1000 ent…
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Isabel
Isabel has 130,400 cumulative American girls on SSA record, and the chart history goes back through the entire 20th century. The 2006 peak at rank 88 sat in the middle of a longer…
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Isabelle
Isabelle reached its peak at rank 92 in 2007 and now sits at 170, with about 105,900 cumulative American girls on SSA record. The French spelling held its own through the 2000s al…
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Ivan
Ivan peaked in 2004 at rank 124 and has slid gently to 153 in 2024. The chart shape is unusually flat — most peaked names slide harder than this. Ivan's resilience suggests two di…
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Jace
Jace peaked in 2013 at rank 67 and has since slid to 114, a textbook example of a 2010s-coded short name working through its life cycle. The four-letter, single-syllable, J-openin…
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James
5.2 million American boys have been named James since the SSA started keeping records in 1880. No other name in the dataset crosses five million. James was the No. 1 boys' name fr…
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Jason
Jason peaked in 1977 at rank 2 and has spent the nearly fifty years since drifting downward to its current position of 148. Over a million American boys have been named Jason. Alm…
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Jasper
Jasper hit its all-time SSA peak in 2023 at rank 110 and now sits at 133. The chart shape is a steady multi-decade climb that has only just plateaued. Jasper is one of the cleanes…
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Jayce
Jayce peaked in 2015 at rank 71 and has slid to 169 in 2024, dropping nearly 100 ranks in less than a decade. The chart shape is the textbook profile of a Y-respelled trend name t…
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Jeremiah
Jeremiah peaked in 2010 at rank 51 and has settled to rank 93 in the fifteen years since. The descent is steeper than peer prophet names like Isaiah or Elijah, which raises a real…
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Jett
Jett peaked at rank 161 in 2024, its highest position to date. The name's climb has been quietly persistent since the early 2000s, never spiking dramatically but never stalling ei…
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John
From 1880 to 1923 — every single year — John was the most common boys' name in America. Forty-four consecutive years at #1, the longest such streak in U.S. naming history. The arc…
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Jonathan
Jonathan was a top 25 boys' name in America from 1976 to 2003, a twenty-eight-year run that made it one of the defining biblical names of the late twentieth century. Over 866,000…
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Joseph
Joseph has been inside the U.S. top 25 every year of the SSA record from 1880 to 2024 — 144 consecutive years. The biblical patriarch's name is one of fewer than five boys' names…
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Josiah
The biblical Josiah became king of Judah at age eight, ordered the temple repaired, and rediscovered a lost scroll of the law. He died young, in battle, around 609 BCE. Today he i…
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