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Borrowed from the girls: names boys are taking back

64 names · 0 girls · 64 boys · records through 2025

Naming's best-known one-way street runs from boys to girls. This page looks for traffic in the other direction: names given to both sexes today where the boys' side holds the majority.

This guide has 64 names: 0 girl names and 64 boy names. Names given to at least 100 babies of each sex where boys now hold 55–85% of the total. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.

Before the names

The split is measured from the latest year's births rather than from reputation, so what appears here is what is actually happening, not what a name is assumed to be.

Each entry shows the current percentage, which is the only honest way to describe a shared name — the label unisex hides a range running from an even split to a near-total lean.

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Leaning to the boys' side now

Every rank and count here is published by the US Social Security Administration and refreshed each year when the new figures land. The method is stated at the top of this page.

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