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Ultra-rare but real: names given to a handful of babies
100 names · 50 girls · 50 boys · records through 2025
There's rare, and then there's this: names that appeared on only a few dozen birth certificates in the entire country last year.
This guide has 100 names: 50 girl names and 50 boy names. Names given to 10–50 babies nationally in the latest year, ordered by count. 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
Every one is verified in official records — no inventions — which makes this the safest way to pick a name almost nobody has.
The lower bound matters as much as the upper one. The Social Security data only records a name once at least five babies received it in a year, and this list starts at ten — so nothing here is a clerical one-off or a single family's coinage. Ten to fifty families, independently, in the same year, arrived at the same name.
That independence is the useful signal. A name at this frequency is rare because few people choose it, not because it is unusable: it has cleared pronunciation, spelling and the registrar's desk dozens of times over. Genuine invention carries risks this list does not.
Be clear-eyed about what this frequency means day to day. A child with a name at this level will almost certainly never meet another, will spell it aloud often, and will find it on no keyring in any gift shop. Families who want that describe it as the point; it is still worth deciding on purpose rather than by accident.
Girl names
50 names
- Alahnia few dozen babies last year
- Aleena few dozen babies last year
- Allanaa few dozen babies last year
- Amairania few dozen babies last year
- Analya few dozen babies last year
- Beckhama few dozen babies last year
- Candacea few dozen babies last year
- Dynvera few dozen babies last year
- Eleanaa few dozen babies last year
- Evana few dozen babies last year
- Fablea few dozen babies last year
- Haidyna few dozen babies last year
- Hazelynna few dozen babies last year
- Ileanaa few dozen babies last year
- Irmaa few dozen babies last year
- Jorjaa few dozen babies last year
- Jouria few dozen babies last year
- Joziea few dozen babies last year
- Junaa few dozen babies last year
- Kalenaa few dozen babies last year
- Kamyaa few dozen babies last year
- Keonaa few dozen babies last year
- Kyomiea few dozen babies last year
- Leiania few dozen babies last year
- Leynaa few dozen babies last year
- Linleya few dozen babies last year
- Lucinaa few dozen babies last year
- Lulua few dozen babies last year
- Maevrya few dozen babies last year
- Maylia few dozen babies last year
- Mckaylaa few dozen babies last year
- Mykaa few dozen babies last year
- Naharaa few dozen babies last year
- Nikaa few dozen babies last year
- Olgaa few dozen babies last year
- Pessya few dozen babies last year
- Ranaa few dozen babies last year
- Rebela few dozen babies last year
- Reemaa few dozen babies last year
- Romiea few dozen babies last year
- Serena few dozen babies last year
- Shayleea few dozen babies last year
- Skyleea few dozen babies last year
- Yetzalia few dozen babies last year
- Alaaa few dozen babies last year
- Amyaha few dozen babies last year
- Analeyaa few dozen babies last year
- Arishaa few dozen babies last year
- Augustaa few dozen babies last year
- Auria few dozen babies last year
Boy names
50 names
- Aleka few dozen babies last year
- Angada few dozen babies last year
- Antwana few dozen babies last year
- Ayaza few dozen babies last year
- Aycena few dozen babies last year
- Beaumonta few dozen babies last year
- Dayvona few dozen babies last year
- Deniza few dozen babies last year
- Draytona few dozen babies last year
- Fabioa few dozen babies last year
- Finlaya few dozen babies last year
- Finnigana few dozen babies last year
- Gurbaaza few dozen babies last year
- Hadriana few dozen babies last year
- Heitora few dozen babies last year
- Hendersona few dozen babies last year
- Hendrika few dozen babies last year
- Itzaea few dozen babies last year
- Jairusa few dozen babies last year
- Kahlila few dozen babies last year
- Kamrana few dozen babies last year
- Kiona few dozen babies last year
- Kiptona few dozen babies last year
- Kovea few dozen babies last year
- Larsona few dozen babies last year
- Mareka few dozen babies last year
- Mazina few dozen babies last year
- Mikeya few dozen babies last year
- Muhammadyusufa few dozen babies last year
- Murraya few dozen babies last year
- Nahmira few dozen babies last year
- Rezaa few dozen babies last year
- Rowea few dozen babies last year
- Rydena few dozen babies last year
- Selima few dozen babies last year
- Timura few dozen babies last year
- Yahiaa few dozen babies last year
- Adila few dozen babies last year
- Advaitha few dozen babies last year
- Alexandroa few dozen babies last year
- Alexandrosa few dozen babies last year
- Amiela few dozen babies last year
- Anaya few dozen babies last year
- Asaada few dozen babies last year
- Bluea few dozen babies last year
- Burkea few dozen babies last year
- Codaa few dozen babies last year
- Daelyna few dozen babies last year
- Denyma few dozen babies last year
- Elya few dozen babies last year
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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