Western names with dust on their boots
The cowboy name boom is one of the defining trends of the decade — Wyatt and Waylon climbed the charts like they stole something.
Saddle up: every frontier name below is in real use, rank included.
Girls
Boys
- Levi#12 today
- Wyatt#38 today
- Maverick#49 today
- Waylon#56 today
- Beau#60 today
- Walker#78 today
- Austin#113 today
- Ryder#132 today
- Tucker#181 today
- Jesse#184 today
- Rhett#188 today
- Dallas#238 today
- Colt#285 today
- Cody#318 today
- Wade#344 today
- Hank#413 today
- Boone#423 today
- Garrett#564 today
- Shane#635 today
- Duke#695 today
- Gus#1328 today
How this list is built: A curated set of Western and frontier names matched against the latest records; only names in real use appear. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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