Style & sound
Long and elegant: names with room to breathe
27 names · 18 girls · 9 boys · records through 2025
A long name is a gift with layers: Elizabeth can be Ellie at four, Liza at fourteen and Elizabeth on a diploma.
This guide has 27 names: 18 girl names and 9 boy names. Names of nine letters or more inside the current national top-400, ordered by today's 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
These nine-letters-and-up names are all in confident use today. Formal on paper, flexible in the kitchen — the opposite of a one-note choice.
Girl names
18 names
- Charlotte#2 today
- Elizabeth#17 today
- Valentina#35 today
- Josephine#53 today
- Gabriella#105 today
- Evangeline#147 today
- Genevieve#148 today
- Anastasia#163 today
- Katherine#186 today
- Everleigh#194 today
- Mackenzie#228 today
- Alexandra#237 today
- Antonella#284 today
- Francesca#307 today
- Catherine#313 today
- Annabelle#343 today
- Gwendolyn#360 today
- Esmeralda#373 today
Boy names
9 names
- Sebastian#16 today
- Alexander#30 today
- Christopher#68 today
- Christian#96 today
- Nathaniel#140 today
- Alejandro#195 today
- Maximiliano#280 today
- Remington#307 today
- Francisco#322 today
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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