By first recorded decade

The decade in which a registrar Namewise holds first published a ranking for the name.

First recorded in Namewise's current registrar data — never when a name was invented, first used, or first existed. Norway publishes from 1945 and Scotland from 2014, so an early first record means an early-publishing source as much as an established name. There is no 2020s band: a name first recorded in the 2020s cannot yet have the ten-year span the evidence bar requires.

11,129 records across 8 bands, ordered by earliest first record.

• First recorded in the 1940s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1940 and 1949.

  924 names

• First recorded in the 1950s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1950 and 1959.

  468 names

• First recorded in the 1960s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1960 and 1969.

  872 names

• First recorded in the 1970s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1970 and 1979.

  455 names

• First recorded in the 1980s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1980 and 1989.

  289 names

• First recorded in the 1990s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 1990 and 1999.

  4,648 names

• First recorded in the 2000s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 2000 and 2009.

  2,730 names

• First recorded in the 2010s

  Names whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data falls between 2010 and 2019.

  743 names