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Broadway names from the stage door

35 names · 20 girls · 15 boys · records through 2025

Musicals run for decades and reach millions, which gives their names an unusually long runway. Eliza and Angelica both climbed after 2015 for a reason the records make hard to miss.

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This guide has 35 names: 20 girl names and 15 boy names. A curated set of musical-theatre character names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. 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

Much of the canon borrows from history and the nineteenth-century novel, so the list reads as a period register with a spotlight on it: Cosette, Fantine, Marius, Christine.

Only names in genuine current use appear below, each with its live rank.

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Girl names

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Boy names

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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