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Names that fell out of the top 100 this century

32 names · 19 girls · 13 boys · records through 2025

A short, specific list: names that were among the hundred most popular in America since 2000 and have since fallen out of the top 300 entirely.

This guide has 32 names: 19 girl names and 13 boy names. Names whose top-100 peak fell in 2000 or later and which now rank outside the top 300, ordered by peak rank. 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

Around thirty names in the whole record match. That is how rare a fast exit is — most names decline over decades rather than years, and a fall of this speed usually means the name was tied hard to a single moment.

For a parent the reading depends on taste. This is either a list of names that dated quickly, or a list of recently-familiar names now sitting uncrowded.

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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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