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Top-100 names that are quietly falling

66 names · 34 girls · 32 boys · records through 2025

Every name in the top 100 is popular by definition. These are the ones whose direction has changed: still inside the hundred most-given names, and measurably declining against their own five-year trend.

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This guide has 66 names: 34 girl names and 32 boy names. Names currently ranked in the top 100 with a falling five-year trajectory, ordered by today'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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Direction matters more than position for a name a child will carry for eighty years. A falling top-100 name will be less crowded in five years than it is today — the opposite bet from the names still climbing.

The note beside each one gives its current rank, so the size of the name stays visible next to the direction of travel.

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Girl names

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Boy names

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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