What are your top 5 boy and top 5 girl names below the top 800? So either very, very low on the top 1,000 names or not even on the chart of tops names. Those unique and uncommon names that make you question why they aren’t more popular!
Girls
- [name_u]Nairne[/name_u]
- [name_f]Idalia[/name_f]
- [name_f]Merewen[/name_f]
- [name_f]Cherith[/name_f]
- [name_u]Faine[/name_u]
(so many more but I’ll stop there). None of those are/have ever been in the top 1000 in the US.
Boys
- [name_m]Illarion[/name_m]
- [name_m]Romaric[/name_m]
- [name_f]Shasta[/name_f]
- [name_m]Murdoch[/name_m]
- [name_u]Viridian[/name_u]
(so many more but I’ll stop there again). Again, never in the top US 1000!
[name_f]My[/name_f] top 5 names for both boys and girls happens to all be out of the top 1000. [name_f]My[/name_f] favorites currently are…
[name_f]Maude[/name_f]
[name_u]Fable[/name_u]
[name_f]Verity[/name_f]
[name_f]Dinah[/name_f]
[name_u]Blythe[/name_u]
[name_u]Monty[/name_u]
[name_m]Laszlo[/name_m]
[name_m]Jethro[/name_m]
[name_u]Darcy[/name_u]
[name_u]Basil[/name_u]
ooh i love this idea!! some of my top names chart for the other gender so i’ve left them off ~ and i’m going off of the us charts!
girls
philippa
melrose
oona
ethel
maple
boys
rafe
ransom
herschel
tarka
jago
for girls ~
[name_f]Maude[/name_f]
[name_f]Dinah[/name_f]
[name_f]Etta[/name_f]
[name_f]Ida[/name_f]
[name_f]Edie[/name_f]
[name_f]Primrose[/name_f]
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f]
[name_f]Mirabella[/name_f]
[name_f]Clarisse[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
[name_m]Balthazar[/name_m]
[name_m]Cosmo[/name_m]
[name_u]Sol[/name_u]
Oh, I like this!
Mine are…
Girls:
[name_f]Guinevere[/name_f]
[name_f]Nuala[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrix[/name_f]
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
[name_f]Lilia[/name_f]
I am surprised that [name_f]Beatrix[/name_f] & [name_f]Lilia[/name_f] aren’t more popular.
Boys:
[name_m]Ewan[/name_m]
[name_m]Dashiell[/name_m]
[name_m]Colm[/name_m]
[name_m]Bastian[/name_m]
[name_m]Seamus[/name_m]
let’s see (not in any order):
girls:
lilia
romy
edie
hannelore
arwen
boys:
elihu
auden
alistair (charts #928!)
zebedee
florian
It’s hard to limit myself to five, but here are some of my favs.
Girls:
- [name_f]Georgina[/name_f]
- [name_u]Joan[/name_u]
- [name_f]Loretta[/name_f]
- [name_f]Rosanna[/name_f]
- [name_f]Wilma[/name_f]
Boys:
- [name_m]Aurelian[/name_m]
- [name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
- [name_m]Ernest[/name_m]
- [name_m]Jove[/name_m]
- [name_m]Ulysses[/name_m]
I’ve picked from names between 800 & 1000:
Girls:
[name_f]Emiliana[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosalina[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgina[/name_f]
[name_u]Robin[/name_u]
[name_f]Zora[/name_f]
Boys:
[name_m]Aurelio[/name_m]
[name_m]Reuben[/name_m]
[name_m]Alfred[/name_m]
[name_u]Everest[/name_u]
[name_m]Orlando[/name_m]
Side note: Funny that [name_f]Amelia[/name_f] is number 4 on the popularity chart and [name_f]Emily[/name_f] number 17 (plus two names with similar sounds: [name_f]Camila[/name_f] at 12 and [name_f]Mila[/name_f] at 19; while [name_f]Emilia[/name_f] is at 44) - but [name_f]Emmeline[/name_f], [name_f]Emiliana[/name_f] & [name_f]Amelie[/name_f] are way down past number 800!
girls:
darcie
imogen
bronte
bridie
marlene
boys:
darcy
will
hart
ned
finlay
Good question!
- [name_f]Verity[/name_f]
- [name_f]Imogen[/name_f]
- [name_f]Saskia[/name_f]
- [name_f]Xanthe[/name_f]
- [name_f]Irina[/name_f]
~
- [name_m]Linus[/name_m]
- [name_m]Fergus[/name_m]
- [name_m]Stellan[/name_m]
- [name_m]Innes[/name_m]
- [name_m]Phineas[/name_m]
So many of my faves are not in the top 1000!!
Girls:
- [name_f]Delphine[/name_f]
- [name_u]Clarke[/name_u]
- [name_f]Nell[/name_f]
- [name_u]Greer[/name_u]
- [name_u]Blythe[/name_u]
Boys:
- [name_m]Casper[/name_m]
- [name_m]Emil[/name_m]
- [name_u]Leander[/name_u]
- [name_m]Finnian[/name_m]
- [name_u]Peregrine[/name_u]
Girls:
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
[name_f]Celia[/name_f]
[name_u]Vida[/name_u]
[name_f]Lacey[/name_f]
[name_u]August[/name_u]
Boys:
[name_m]Elio[/name_m]
[name_u]Rocky[/name_u]
[name_m]Salvatore[/name_m]
[name_m]Hendrick[/name_m]
[name_m]Wesson[/name_m]
Honestly, most of my names, but five of each right now that I don’t know why they aren’t more popular:
- [name_m]Percival[/name_m]
- [name_m]Lazarus[/name_m]
- [name_m]Thorin[/name_m]
- [name_u]Rafe[/name_u] does rank for [name_u]England[/name_u] and [name_m]Wales[/name_m] though not US
- [name_m]Osiris[/name_m]
- [name_f]Inessa[/name_f]
- [name_f]Hestia[/name_f]
- [name_f]Evolet[/name_f]
- Gwynevere / [name_f]Guinevere[/name_f]
- [name_f]Nerissa[/name_f]
[name_f]Inez[/name_f]
Réalta
[name_f]Honora[/name_f]
[name_f]Síomha[/name_f]
[name_f]Bernadette[/name_f]
[name_m]Oisín[/name_m]
[name_u]Ruairí[/name_u]
[name_m]Tadhg[/name_m]
[name_m]Alastar[/name_m]
[name_m]Einar[/name_m]
Mostly [name_u]Irish[/name_u] names which I guess makes sense
- [name_f]Cherith[/name_f]
- [name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
- [name_f]Tansy[/name_f]
- Rosfrith
- [name_f]Meraud[/name_f]
- [name_m]Brynmor[/name_m]
- [name_m]Caedmon[/name_m]
- Wyeth
- [name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
- [name_m]Artan[/name_m]
Maybe not my top 5 but the first ones I thought of:
[name_f]Antonia[/name_f], [name_f]Tabitha[/name_f], [name_f]Isadora[/name_f], [name_f]Bernadette[/name_f], [name_u]Meadowlark[/name_u]
[name_u]Leander[/name_u], [name_u]Will[/name_u], [name_m]Stellan[/name_m], [name_m]Aurelius[/name_m], [name_m]Octavian[/name_m]
[name_f]My[/name_f] top names are mostly outside the top 1000 by design. I do focus on the popularity list where I live (England/Wales), but I’ll do it to the US list.
Girls-
[name_f]Pandora[/name_f]
[name_f]Evanthe[/name_f]
[name_f]Morgana[/name_f]
[name_f]Valkyrie[/name_f]
[name_f]Calista[/name_f]
Boys-
[name_m]Lysander[/name_m]
[name_m]Ptolemy[/name_m]
[name_m]Horatio[/name_m]
[name_m]Taavi[/name_m]
[name_u]Indigo[/name_u] (excluding girls popularity)
Also not a favourite, but I will never get over [name_f]Jane[/name_f] not being in the top 1000 (in England/ Wales). I can never quite believe the numbers, even though its been out for years .
[name_m]Talmadge[/name_m]
[name_u]Granger[/name_u]
[name_m]Merrick[/name_m]
[name_m]Ansel[/name_m]
[name_m]Seaton[/name_m]
[name_f]Thisbe[/name_f]
[name_m]Larsen[/name_m]
[name_m]Farley[/name_m]
[name_f]Linnea[/name_f]
[name_f]Sonia[/name_f]