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The names with the most spellings

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

Some sounds have one accepted spelling. Others have twenty: Eliana's family currently charts in twenty-one distinct spellings and Aria's in nineteen, and both would rank in the national top ten if the records counted them as single names.

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This guide has 100 names: 50 girl names and 50 boy names. Spelling families with the most distinct charting spellings, shown by their best-ranked member and combined standing. 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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A large family is a double signal. It means the sound is genuinely popular, and it means a child will spend a lifetime spelling it aloud — the more ways a name can reasonably be written, the more often it will be written wrong.

Each entry below shows how many spellings the family currently carries and where the combined family ranks.

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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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