Long and elegant: names with room to breathe
A long name is a gift with layers: Elizabeth can be Ellie at four, Liza at fourteen and Elizabeth on a diploma.
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.
Girls
- 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
Boys
- 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
How this list is built: Names of nine letters or more inside the current national top-400, ordered by today's rank. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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