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Names ranked #601–1000: known, but barely shared

100 names · 50 girls · 50 boys · records through 2025

One step past the under-the-radar band. At this depth a name goes to roughly one child in several thousand of its sex — the odds of a second one in the same school are genuinely small.

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This guide has 100 names: 50 girl names and 50 boy names. Names currently ranked #601–1000 nationally, ordered by 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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What survives at this rank is legitimacy: everything here is in active national use this year. It is neither a historical curiosity nor an invention, and it will look unremarkable on any form.

What thins out is instant recognition. Above this band most adults have met someone with the name; inside it, a fair number have not.

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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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