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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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Seth
Seth peaked in 2000 and has been sliding since — current rank #558 , down from what was once a top-200 position. But 165,273 total SSA bearers and decades of steady use tell you t…
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Solomon
Solomon sits at rank 417 with 37,284 total American boys carrying the name, peaking in 2016 within the broader biblical-name revival of the 2010s. The trajectory has held remarkab…
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Sutton
Sutton peaked in 2024 at rank 441 with 6,330 total American boys carrying the name, a small cumulative count that marks Sutton as a contemporary entry rather than an established c…
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Sylvia
Sylvia carries 244,041 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 361, with a 1937 peak. The chart traces a clean pre-war arc: gradual early-20th-century c…
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Travis
Travis peaked in 1989 at rank 361 and now sits in mid-chart territory with 307,827 total American boys named Travis, a substantial cumulative count that places it firmly among the…
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Uriel
Uriel is one of the great archangels of Hebrew tradition — and one of the most underused angel names in American baby naming. Gabriel and Michael have been top-100 staples for dec…
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Wells
Wells peaked in 2024 at rank 376 with 6,040 American boys carrying the name, a recent climb that fits the broader single-syllable surname-first wave alongside Banks, Brooks, and R…
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Willa
Willa carries 32,077 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 423, and reached its peak in 2019. The chart traces a long mid-twentieth-century dormancy, minimal use t…
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Winnie
Winnie peaked in 2024 and holds #550 , with just over 26,000 recorded bearers. It's a name that's been building quietly for years, pulled forward by the vintage-name revival and b…
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Winter
Winter carries 14,874 cumulative American girls on SSA record and currently sits at rank 385, with a 2022 peak. The chart traces a clean modern arc: minimal pre-2010 presence, sha…
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Xiomara
Xiomara carries 11,571 cumulative American girls on SSA record, sits at rank 432, and reached its peak in 2023. The chart shows minimal pre-2010 use, gradual mid-2010s growth, and…
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Zakai
Zakai hit its 2024 peak at current rank #603 , with just 3,520 total SSA bearers — one of the smallest totals in this entire batch. It's an extremely recent arrival: the name esse…
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