Namewise

Names recorded across generations

Names ranked inside the top 200 at both ends of a record spanning at least 45 years, in the same published list.

A long record alone is not this: a name at #40 in 1950 and #4,000 today has been recorded for seventy years and has not stayed in use at the same level. This asks for real standing at both ends, so the two figures are decades apart and comparable.

60 names, selected from the 2,573 names in the catalogue with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon). Based on official statistics from national registrars. Data sources · Methodology