Styles, origins and meanings

The largest styles: Two-syllable (902), International (506) and Rising (471).

Every style is a rule applied to the data, printed on its page. No name is called vintage because it sounds it.

Styles

Short401
Four letters or fewer.
Two-syllable902
Two syllables.
Modern190
Essentially unrecorded before 1985 in the long-running records, and given to at least 20 in every 100,000 babies now.
Rising471
Given more often now than five years ago in at least three of the regions we track, and rising in more of them than it is falling in.
Three-syllable426
Three syllables.
International506
In the published lists of at least twelve regions in the latest year.
Long160
Eight letters or more.
Revival37
Peaked before 1950, fell below a quarter of that peak between 1960 and 2000, and is now given at least three times as often as at its low point.
Unisex74
At least one in ten babies with the name, across all tracked regions, is of the other sex.