Beloved classics quietly disappearing
There's a sweet spot most parents never think of: a name every adult knows how to spell and pronounce, that almost no baby is receiving anymore. These are those names.
Each one sat near the top of the charts within living memory and is now sliding fast. Choosing one today means your child will likely be the only one in class — with a name that never needs explaining.
Girls
- Alexa#32 in 2015 · fading now
- Ava#3 in 2016 · fading now
- Abigail#4 in 2005 · fading now
- Aubree#53 in 2013 · fading now
- Skylar#42 in 2015 · fading now
- Aubrey#15 in 2012 · fading now
- Gianna#13 in 2020 · fading now
- Taylor#6 in 1994 · fading now
- Alyssa#11 in 1998 · fading now
- London#85 in 2013 · fading now
- Jada#75 in 2001 · fading now
- Brooklyn#21 in 2011 · fading now
- Kaylee#26 in 2009 · fading now
- Reagan#97 in 2012 · fading now
- Meghan#63 in 1985 · fading now
- Bella#48 in 2010 · fading now
- Zoey#20 in 2012 · fading now
- Mila#14 in 2018 · fading now
- Everly#42 in 2019 · fading now
- Everleigh#94 in 2020 · fading now
- Peyton#42 in 2009 · fading now
- Payton#79 in 2010 · fading now
- Savannah#30 in 2006 · fading now
- Nevaeh#25 in 2010 · fading now
Boys
- Mason#2 in 2011 · fading now
- Logan#5 in 2017 · fading now
- Alexander#4 in 2009 · fading now
- Jacob#1 in 1999 · fading now
- Aiden#9 in 2010 · fading now
- Jaxon#39 in 2018 · fading now
- Gavin#30 in 2008 · fading now
- Connor#38 in 2004 · fading now
- Jackson#14 in 2021 · fading now
- Ayden#68 in 2012 · fading now
- Brayden#36 in 2011 · fading now
- Hunter#35 in 2000 · fading now
- Jayden#4 in 2010 · fading now
- Ethan#2 in 2009 · fading now
- Landon#33 in 2010 · fading now
- Greyson#77 in 2018 · fading now
- Jaxson#76 in 2018 · fading now
- William#2 in 1880 · fading now
- Elijah#4 in 2020 · fading now
- Michael#1 in 1954 · fading now
- Ryan#11 in 1986 · fading now
- Jameson#77 in 2019 · fading now
- Eli#43 in 2012 · fading now
- Lincoln#40 in 2020 · fading now
How this list is built: Former top-100 names with the steepest five-year decline in current rankings. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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