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Names predicted to enter the top 100 by 2030
16 names · 11 girls · 5 boys · records through 2025
Every name with enough history to model gets a projected standing five years out, fitted to its own recent trajectory. This page is the shortlist that changes category: outside the top 100 today, inside it by 2030.
This guide has 16 names: 11 girl names and 5 boy names. Names whose projected 2030 rank is inside the top 100 while their current rank is not, ordered by projected rank. Built from US Social Security birth records through 2025. Tap + beside any name to keep it on your shortlist as you read.
Before the names
Sixteen names clear that bar out of more than nine thousand modelled — which is the honest scale of the claim. A forecast is a line drawn through the last few years, not a promise about the next five.
What it is good for is timing. A name on this list is currently uncrowded and, on its present trajectory, will not stay that way.
Girl names
11 names
- Scottie#126 now → #26 by 2030
- Wrenley#158 now → #42 by 2030
- Margot#102 now → #77 by 2030
- Adhara#370 now → #78 by 2030
- Hallie#120 now → #80 by 2030
- Amira#132 now → #92 by 2030
- Catalina#111 now → #95 by 2030
- Oaklynn#153 now → #96 by 2030
- Juliette#110 now → #97 by 2030
- Parker#106 now → #98 by 2030
- Elsie#123 now → #100 by 2030
Boy names
5 names
- Colter#157 now → #58 by 2030
- Stetson#136 now → #70 by 2030
- Callum#118 now → #73 by 2030
- Amir#105 now → #98 by 2030
- Aziel#186 now → #99 by 2030
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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