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The names that have fallen furthest from their peak

89 names · 50 girls · 39 boys · records through 2025

The exact opposite of the all-time-peak list. Every name here is still given often enough to carry a national rank, and every one of them stands further below its own best year than anything else in the records.

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This guide has 89 names: 50 girl names and 39 boy names. Currently ranked names ordered by the ratio between today's rank and their all-time best rank. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.

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That is the bottom of a cycle rather than the end of a name. Several of the site's current comeback stories sat on a list like this one a generation ago.

Whether it reads as a warning or an opportunity depends on the name — the note beside each one shows the peak it fell from, and the year it happened.

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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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