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Filter 300 names by what the birth records actually say about them: how common they are now, which way they are moving, how old their bearers are, and whether they belong to a particular era.
What this does not do. It will not invent a name, blend two names together, or suggest one from a birth date. There is no data connecting a date to a name, and a name that has never been given to anyone has no births, no age and no geography — nothing this site can tell you about it. Every name below is one real American parents have used.
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Each of these is a page, computed from the same figures the filter uses.
The curated lists are released a week apart, so only some are live yet. In the meantime the year pages and the state pages cover the same data from a different angle, and Indian-origin names have their own section.
What the filters mean
- How common
- Rank among names of that sex in 2025. A name outside the top 1,500 was still given to real children — several hundred of them in most cases.
- Direction
- Change in births over ten years. Rising is up by a quarter or more, falling is down by a quarter or more, and steady is everything between. How it is calculated.
- Feel
- The era label, which is a rule rather than a judgement: it comes from the name's peak year, with modifiers for names that have come back and names that never left. The rules in full.
- Genuinely unisex
- Recent births split close to evenly, not "could work for either". The threshold is a unisex index of 0.6. How the index works.