Names that never go out of style
Most names date a person within a decade or two. A tiny group doesn't: they were popular when your grandmother was born, when you were born, and they're popular now.
If you want a name that will never feel trendy and never feel dated — at sixty as at six — this short list is the safest ground in the entire dataset.
Girls
Boys
- Andrewtop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Anthonytop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Charlestop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Christophertop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Danieltop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Davidtop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Jamestop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Johntop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Josephtop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Matthewtop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Michaeltop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Roberttop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Samueltop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Thomastop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
- Williamtop-100 in all 8 decades since the 1950s
How this list is built: Names appearing in the national top-100 in every decade from the 1950s through the 2020s. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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