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Names far more common than their rank admits
78 names · 50 girls · 28 boys · records through 2025
The official records count spellings, not names. Jaxon and Jackson are two separate rows in the data and one name on a playground, which means a rank can badly understate how often a child will meet their own name.
This guide has 78 names: 50 girl names and 28 boy names. Names ranked #101–1000 whose combined spelling family ranks inside the top 100, ordered by the family's 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 page corrects for that. Every name below sits outside the top 100 on its own spelling while the combined family it belongs to ranks inside it — 107 names in the current data are in that position, and the gaps are large: Jaxon ranks #115 as spelled and #8 as a sound, Elliana #139 and #4.
The note beside each name carries both numbers: the spelling's rank, and the family's. The distance between them is how much company the rank is hiding.
It is the single most useful check to run before choosing a name that looks rarer than it sounds.
Girl names
50 names
- Elliana#139 as spelled · #4 as a sound
- Elianna#218 as spelled · #4 as a sound
- Ellianna#642 as spelled · #4 as a sound
- Mya#443 as spelled · #7 as a sound
- Izabella#564 as spelled · #8 as a sound
- Isabela#664 as spelled · #8 as a sound
- Ailani#168 as spelled · #9 as a sound
- Aylani#293 as spelled · #9 as a sound
- Ailanny#932 as spelled · #9 as a sound
- Arya#158 as spelled · #10 as a sound
- Ariyah#366 as spelled · #10 as a sound
- Ariya#614 as spelled · #10 as a sound
- Ariah#636 as spelled · #10 as a sound
- Evelynn#301 as spelled · #11 as a sound
- Kamila#355 as spelled · #12 as a sound
- Camilla#361 as spelled · #12 as a sound
- Lilly#252 as spelled · #13 as a sound
- Norah#262 as spelled · #17 as a sound
- Khloe#272 as spelled · #18 as a sound
- Lilah#179 as spelled · #19 as a sound
- Lila#186 as spelled · #19 as a sound
- Lylah#584 as spelled · #19 as a sound
- Elisabeth#925 as spelled · #21 as a sound
- Myla#210 as spelled · #22 as a sound
- Mylah#604 as spelled · #22 as a sound
- Laila#413 as spelled · #24 as a sound
- Scarlet#509 as spelled · #26 as a sound
- Giana#920 as spelled · #33 as a sound
- Maddison#438 as spelled · #34 as a sound
- Aaliyah#101 as spelled · #40 as a sound
- Aliyah#263 as spelled · #40 as a sound
- Alia#587 as spelled · #40 as a sound
- Aliya#823 as spelled · #40 as a sound
- Hanna#511 as spelled · #43 as a sound
- Hana#657 as spelled · #43 as a sound
- Lilliana#445 as spelled · #48 as a sound
- Lilianna#890 as spelled · #48 as a sound
- Lilian#560 as spelled · #50 as a sound
- Alaia#117 as spelled · #51 as a sound
- Alaya#368 as spelled · #51 as a sound
- Alayah#412 as spelled · #51 as a sound
- Alaiya#792 as spelled · #51 as a sound
- Maia#433 as spelled · #53 as a sound
- Leilany#694 as spelled · #54 as a sound
- Leylani#970 as spelled · #54 as a sound
- Sara#198 as spelled · #56 as a sound
- Lea#848 as spelled · #59 as a sound
- Madelynn#524 as spelled · #65 as a sound
- Aila#827 as spelled · #67 as a sound
- Anna#107 as spelled · #68 as a sound
Boy names
28 names
- Lucca#425 as spelled · #4 as a sound
- Matteo#146 as spelled · #5 as a sound
- Jaxon#115 as spelled · #8 as a sound
- Jaxson#156 as spelled · #8 as a sound
- Lukas#288 as spelled · #10 as a sound
- Ezrah#913 as spelled · #20 as a sound
- Karter#270 as spelled · #33 as a sound
- Mathew#973 as spelled · #34 as a sound
- Dilan#805 as spelled · #40 as a sound
- Ayden#257 as spelled · #42 as a sound
- Kaleb#295 as spelled · #43 as a sound
- Izaiah#635 as spelled · #53 as a sound
- Kayden#135 as spelled · #59 as a sound
- Kaiden#237 as spelled · #59 as a sound
- Cayden#414 as spelled · #59 as a sound
- Caiden#602 as spelled · #59 as a sound
- Sylas#440 as spelled · #60 as a sound
- Jaiden#617 as spelled · #65 as a sound
- Kameron#466 as spelled · #67 as a sound
- Elliot#151 as spelled · #69 as a sound
- Elliott#160 as spelled · #69 as a sound
- Cristian#362 as spelled · #72 as a sound
- Aron#710 as spelled · #79 as a sound
- Dominic#106 as spelled · #86 as a sound
- Dominick#622 as spelled · #86 as a sound
- Dominik#984 as spelled · #86 as a sound
- Colton#103 as spelled · #92 as a sound
- Kolton#594 as spelled · #92 as a sound
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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