Browse names by record
Every grouping here is a measurable property of a name's own published record, taken from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. Nothing on these pages describes a name's meaning, origin or age — only what the registrar data records.
How widely it is recorded
- By registrar coverage
How many of the seven official registrars have published a ranking for a name.
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- By how quickly the record widened
The gap between the year the first registrar ranked a name and the year the last one did.
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- By when a second registrar first recorded it
The decade in which a second of the seven registrars first ranked a name, for names more than one has recorded.
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- By the registrar that recorded it highest
Which of the seven official registrars gave a name the best position it has ever held.
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- By registrars ranking it in their top 10
How many of the seven registrars ranked a name inside their own top 10, at any point on record.
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- By publication across category lists
Names that appear in more than one of a registrar's published category lists, for at least five years in each.
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How long the record runs
- By length of recorded history
How many distinct years a name has been ranked in, across every registrar together.
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- By decades of record
How many separate decades a name has been ranked in, counting a decade once however many of its years appear.
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- By longest unbroken run
The longest stretch of consecutive years in which some registrar ranked the name, without a single year missing.
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- By continuity of record
How many separate unbroken stretches a name's record falls into — one for a name ranked every year since it first appeared, more for one whose record stopped and resumed.
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- By longest absence from the record
The longest run of consecutive years, inside a name's own recorded period, in which no registrar ranked it at all.
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How high it reached, and for how long
- By highest recorded position
The best position a name reached in any single published list, in any year.
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- By years spent inside the top 100
How many distinct years a name was ranked inside the top 100 of any published list, whether or not those years ran together.
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- By longest unbroken top-100 run
The longest stretch of consecutive years in which a name held a place inside the top 100 without dropping out once.
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- By highest position against latest position
Where a name that once reached the top 100 stood in the most recent year any registrar ranked it.
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- By years inside the top 10
How many distinct years a name was ranked inside the top 10 of any published list.
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- By year-on-year movement
How far a name's position moves from one year to the next, averaged across every consecutive pair of years in its record.
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- By highest number of births in one year
The most births a single registrar recorded with the name in one year, with the registrar and year that produced it.
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- By largest move in a single year
The biggest change of position a name made between two consecutive years, across its whole record.
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- By years with 500 or more births
How many years a name reached at least 500 registered births with one registrar.
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When the record falls
- By first recorded decade
The decade in which a registrar Namewise holds first published a ranking for the name.
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- By latest recorded decade
The decade in which a name most recently appeared in a published ranking.
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- By decade of highest recorded position
The decade in which a name reached the best position it has ever held in a published list.
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- By when it first reached the top 100
The decade in which a name first appeared inside the top 100 of any published list.
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- By decade of its highest birth count
The decade in which a name reached its largest number of births with any one registrar.
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