Sources & citations

Popularity data

US Social Security Administration — Beyond the Top 1000 Names. Public domain data covering all US births from 1880 through 2024, by name and sex (SSA only records male/female), restricted to names with at least 5 births per year.

Etymology and meaning

Compiled by our editorial team. Names with scholarly disagreement are noted; meanings considered speculative are marked as such.

IP safety statement

Our database contains no character names from copyrighted works (post-1928). Famous-bearer references are limited to real historical and contemporary people, religious figures, public-domain mythology, and characters from pre-1929 literature. See our methodology page.