Names that didn't exist a generation ago
Some parents want a name with a century of history. Others want one nobody in the family has ever met. This list is for the second kind.
Each of these names entered the US charts only recently — many didn't exist at all when today's parents were born. Expect imports from other cultures, new coinages, and creative respellings that took on a life of their own.
Girls
- Kehlani#148 · first seen 2015
- Wrenley#158 · first seen 2013
- Cataleya#237 · first seen 2011
- Wrenlee#355 · first seen 2016
- Adhara#370 · first seen 2013
- Kataleya#458 · first seen 2011
- Analeia#514 · first seen 2011
- Daleyza#538 · first seen 2012
- Wrenleigh#683 · first seen 2016
- Khaleesi#689 · first seen 2011
- Rynlee#755 · first seen 2014
- Klarity#788 · first seen 2011
- Ailanny#932 · first seen 2011
- Naiari#1029 · first seen 2023
- Dalary#1163 · first seen 2014
- Xamira#1173 · first seen 2016
- Zendaya#1186 · first seen 2011
- Wrenly#1204 · first seen 2013
- Cattleya#1211 · first seen 2011
- Zhamira#1225 · first seen 2016
- Ehlani#1229 · first seen 2017
- Renley#1309 · first seen 2012
- Miyori#1318 · first seen 2021
- Esmeray#1388 · first seen 2018
Boys
- Bellamy#721 · first seen 2014
- Dutton#778 · first seen 2018
- Avyaan#858 · first seen 2012
- Coast#874 · first seen 2014
- Chozyn#1018 · first seen 2018
- Kamazi#1021 · first seen 2020
- Eider#1064 · first seen 2017
- Rylo#1118 · first seen 2016
- Amirion#1191 · first seen 2017
- Khaza#1196 · first seen 2014
- Jahseh#1267 · first seen 2018
- Endrick#1339 · first seen 2016
- Zaiel#1345 · first seen 2019
- Santiel#1345 · first seen 2014
- Huxton#1409 · first seen 2011
- Finnick#1436 · first seen 2012
- Kaladin#1486 · first seen 2012
How this list is built: Names first recorded, or first charting, within roughly the last decade — ranked by where they stand today. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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