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Star Wars names in the American record
19 names · 4 girls · 15 boys · records through 2025
A film franchise leaves fingerprints on the records, and this one left more than most: Anakin and Kylo both entered the US charts within a year of their films, which is about as clean a cause-and-effect as naming data ever gives you.
This guide has 19 names: 4 girl names and 15 boy names. A curated set of Star Wars character names matched against the latest US records; only names in real use appear. 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
The older names traveled differently. Leia and Luke were already usable — one a respelling of a classic, the other a New Testament staple — and simply picked up a second life.
Everything below is verified in current records; the invented syllables that never made the jump are not here.
Girl names
4 names
Boy names
15 names
- Ezra#20 today
- Owen#31 today
- Luke#33 today
- Finn#206 today
- Bodhi#265 today
- Cody#318 today
- Kylo#400 today
- Cassian#479 today
- Anakin#648 today
- Ben#843 today
- Rex#859 today
- Rey#906 today
- Kit#1097 today
- Kanan#1108 today
- Lando#1677 today
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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