Rare & Beautiful Names

Names outside the top 500 that deserve more attention. Distinctive without being invented.

Here “rare” means rank numerically beyond 500 in the latest SSA year — still measured, still on the chart. Unranked names are excluded from this slice so the list stays grounded in published data.

Top 500 names · sorted by score

= unisex (gender-neutral)

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Popularity data: Social Security Administration, US births 1880–2024