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Aurelio
Aurelio peaked in 2024, ranks #773, and has 8,233 SSA records. It's an Italian and Spanish form of Aurelius — the golden name of Roman Stoic philosophy — and it has arrived in Ame…
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Benicio
Benicio peaked in 2024, ranks #751, and has 4,260 SSA bearers. It's a Spanish-language name with a blessed-and-beautiful etymology, carried into American naming consciousness prim…
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Bjorn
Bjorn peaked in 2024, ranks #767, and has 4,951 SSA records — a name that has taken the longest of long roads to get to this point in American naming. One of the most iconic Scand…
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Blaze
Blaze peaked in 2015, sits at rank #761, and has 8,175 SSA records. It's the kind of name that makes a strong first impression in every room — a single syllable that sounds like a…
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Braylon
Braylon peaked in 2009, ranks #727, and has 18,497 SSA bearers. It's an American constructed name that arrived during the early-2000s era of Bray- prefix names, and its trajectory…
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Bridger
Bridger peaked in 2021, ranks #785, and has 6,490 SSA records. It's a surname-turned-given-name with a clear occupational English origin, carried by one of American history's most…
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Brynleigh
Brynleigh is a compound of the Welsh Bryn (hill) and the Old English Leigh (meadow or clearing) — a name that combines two pastoral geographic elements from different linguistic t…
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Charley
Charley peaked in 2014 and holds 10,987 SSA records. It is the less common feminine spelling of a name that has belonged to cowboys, kings, and now a growing number of American gi…
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Chozen
Chozen peaked in 2024, ranks #745, and has just 980 SSA bearers: one of the rarest names in current American records, and one with an almost certainly television-driven origin sto…
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Conor
Conor peaked in 1993, ranks #707 today, and carries 27,087 SSA entries: a name that had its American moment during the Celtic revival wave and has been holding steady since. The s…
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Coraline
Coraline peaked in 2015 and carries 6,370 SSA records. A name that exists at the intersection of a beloved dark children's film, the gemstone coral, and the Latin naming tradition…
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Duke
Duke peaked in 2018, ranks #709 today, and has 11,200 SSA bearers: a name that arrived with the wave of title-as-first-name fashion and has proven sturdier than most of its peers.…
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Dutton
Dutton peaked in 2023, ranks #736, and has just 1,126 SSA bearers — making it one of the newest and rarest names on this list. Its rise is almost entirely explained by one televis…
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Emmie
Emmie peaked in 2018 and holds 9,978 SSA records. A Germanic name that started as a nickname and graduated to full given-name status, it sits at rank 735 as the warmest, most appr…
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Enoch
Enoch peaked in 2023, ranks #718, and has 12,759 SSA bearers. It's a Hebrew biblical name with one of the Bible's stranger stories attached to it, the man who didn't die,and that…
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Finnley
Finnley peaked in 2021, ranks #715, and has 5,316 SSA bearers. It's an elaborated spelling of Finley: which is itself a modernized form of the Scottish Gaelic Fionnlagh — and the…
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Forest
Forest peaked in 2022, ranks #724, and has 17,433 SSA bearers. It's the nature-name spelling variant that reads more like the actual word, and its recent rise tracks precisely wit…
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Franco
Franco peaked in 2016, ranks #742, and has 8,758 SSA bearers. It's the Italian and Spanish form of Frank, from the Germanic tribe name Franks,and it arrives with Mediterranean war…
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Freyja
Freyja is the Old Norse spelling of Freya — the Norse goddess of love, fertility, war, and death, one of the most powerful figures in the Norse pantheon. Ranked 771 with 3,499 SSA…
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Hana
Hana peaked in 2005 and holds 12,568 SSA records — a name that reaches across Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and Slavic traditions, each giving it a distinct meaning, none of them cont…
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