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Cynthia
Cynthia has 711,201 SSA records, the largest total count in this batch by a significant margin, and peaked in 1957. It was the name of the baby boom, found in virtually every Amer…
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Darren
Darren peaked in 1965 and carries 103,751 SSA records — a name that was everywhere in the mid-60s, that has declined steadily since, and that is now at the point in a name's life…
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Dash
Dash is a one-syllable name that communicates energy before it communicates anything else. Ranked #967 with a 2017 peak and 4,082 SSA records, it arrived in American naming cultur…
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Douglas
Douglas peaked in 1957 and carries 559,708 SSA records — the largest total count in this entire ranking batch by a significant margin. This is a name that defined a generation com…
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Eddie
Eddie peaked in 1947 with 211,579 SSA records — one of the great mid-century American boy names, as casually confident as the era that produced it. Currently ranked #941, it's liv…
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Elisha
Elisha peaked in 2008 and holds rank #847 with 15,340 SSA records. It's a name with profound biblical depth, a beautiful sound, and a complicated gender reality in American naming…
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Emery
Emery peaked in 2012 for boys and sits at rank #823 with 20,100 SSA records. It's a name that has been drifting steadily toward the girls' side of the SSA ledger even as its total…
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Emiliana
Emiliana takes one of the most popular girl names of the 21st century, Emily, and extends it into something simultaneously more global and more lyrical. It is the Spanish, Italian…
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Ephraim
Ephraim is one of the less-celebrated biblical patriarchs who carries a beautiful and specific name. Ranked #979 with a 2017 peak and 7,997 SSA records, it has a quiet presence ac…
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Etta
Etta is one of the great Victorian names making its way back, short, punchy, complete, and carrying one of the most powerful musical associations in American culture. With 42,985…
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Eugene
Eugene peaked in 1927 and has 380,453 SSA records. At rank #870 today, it's one of those names that polarizes naming opinion sharply: half the room finds it genuinely charming, a…
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Ezrah
Ezrah peaked in 2023 and sits at rank #814 with 2,509 SSA records. It's Ezra with an H — a small addition that changes the visual weight of a name that's been one of the fastest-r…
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Fisher
Fisher peaked in 2016 and carries 6,259 SSA records. At rank #897, it's an occupational surname-name with a clean, outdoorsy feel, the kind of name that sits comfortably in the sa…
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Gatlin
Gatlin peaked in 2022 and carries 4,251 SSA records. At rank #888, it's a surname-name with a distinctly American country flavor, the kind of name that plays differently in Nashvi…
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Giana
Giana is the Italian short form of Giovanna, the feminine form of Giovanni, which is itself the Italian version of John, from Hebrew Yohanan meaning God is gracious. That's a long…
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Grey
Grey peaked in 2021 and carries 5,832 SSA records. At rank #876, it's a color name at its most sophisticated, not the bright declarations of Violet or Scarlett, but something quie…
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Guillermo
Guillermo peaked in 1998 and holds rank #832 with 31,807 SSA records. It's the Spanish form of William — one of the most consequential names in Western history — carrying all that…
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Hadlee
Hadlee is an American respelling of Hadley, a surname-turned-given-name with Old English roots and a preppy, outdoorsy energy. At rank 940 with 4,950 total SSA records and a 2016…
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Halo
Halo is a name that arrives with both spiritual luminosity and a gaming franchise attached. Ranked #994 with a 2024 peak and just 749 SSA records, it is almost entirely new to Ame…
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Harold
Harold has one of the most dramatic trajectories in American naming history. With 551,398 SSA records and a 1924 peak, it was once one of the most common names in the country, and…
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