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Names with only one spelling

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

The opposite of the crowded-family problem: names in confident national use that the records show being spelled exactly one way.

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This guide has 100 names: 50 girl names and 50 boy names. Names inside the current top-600 whose spelling family contains no other charting spelling, 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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This is measurable rather than a matter of opinion. A name whose spelling family contains a single charting member is one American parents do not vary — no alternate forms, no respellings competing with it.

For a child that means a lifetime of never spelling their name at a counter. It is the least glamorous advantage a name can have and one of the most-used.

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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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