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Names you really like that are *not* in the Top 1000
by erb816
6/23/2016, 12:38 PM
What names do you really like, that didn't make it into the SSA's Top 1000 for 2015 (which truly encompasses a *lot* of births)? If you're not American, the BtN site does have lists from other countries, tough they don't go as high as 1000 - but if you have access to a longer list, feel free to use it!Mine:
Alistair
Edmund
Harris
Ross
&
Aline
Aphra
Callista
Cecily
Constance
Deirdre
Delia
Eloisa
Evanna
Florence
Hera
Justine
Katarina
Linnéa
Marguerite
Maude
Marian
Morgana
Morwenna
Nadine
Philippa
Phyllida
Rhiannon
Sheridan
Tess
Ursula
Valentine
Viola
YvettePlease rate my personal name list:www.behindthename.com/pnl/69381
http://greens-end.myminicity.com
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- Caprice
6/25/2016, 12:07 PM
Yes, someone else who likes Amaryllis! :D
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- Bear   +1
6/24/2016, 10:54 AM
Guilty pleasuresLoooove your list. I haven't checked their rankings, but I'd be blown away if any of the following were in the top 1000 here in the U.S:Ursula, Gobnait, Frederica, Madelief, Clothilde, Anouk, Leda, Dulcie / Dulcinea, Mairéad, Silvestra, Prudence, Afton, Consuelo, Murgheal / Muriel, Isibéal / Ishbel, Horatia, Myfanwy, Eugénie, Mor, Iphigenia, Nolwenn, Scholastica, Desideria, Egidia (see: Aegidius), Léonie / Léontine, Effie, Isabeau, Johari, Casimira, Edelweiss, Annetilde, Pierangela, Praskovia (see; Praskoviya), Gervaise, Eirwen, Carmela, Francoise, Nefertiti, Jacomina, Benedicta, Sibyl, Igraine, Callisto, Blaithin, Imelda, Glynis, Una / Oona / Oonagh, Anselma, Laurette, Elva / Elvy, Berangère, Simonetta, Angharad, Perpetua, Eimear, Ludivine, etc.

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- Tuesday (trayc53)
6/25/2016, 5:15 PM
Emmanuel, Bo, Desmond, Noel, and Alexis (m) are indeed top 1000! :)
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- ladybug75
6/24/2016, 10:19 AM
This was really hard for me. Guess all my favorites are popular. But here are a few I came up with.Amberly
Betsy (MN only)
Corina
Dorothea(MN only)
Easter (MN and if born close to the holiday)
Gillian
Hillary
Isobel
Justine
Kristine (not my favorite spelling but I still like it)
Lucinda
Marcella
Nadine
Opal
Rosina and Rosetta (both are family names)
Susanna
Tess (MN only)
Unity (MN only)Aksel
Bartholomew
Elton
Isiah
Leopold and Lenard
Montgomery
Norris
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- Tuesday (trayc53)   +1
6/24/2016, 8:58 AM
- Moirrey
6/25/2016, 8:10 AM
I think Angus beef is a big reason Angus is not more popular in the US.
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- Sekhmet (warriorgoddess)   +2
6/24/2016, 7:49 AM
Anica (Annika is 571; Anika is 580 in the US and 60 in Slovenia)
Araceli (fell off the US top 1000 in 2014)
Calixta / Calista (Calista fell off the US top 1000 in 2004)
Catriona (hasn't even been in the top 100 in Scotland since 2002)
Eloree (family name)
Graciela (really??)
Gwendolen (Gwendolyn is 404)
Harriet (surprising to me - it's popular in England and Wales, Australia, and New Zealand, though)
Imogen (very popular in several other English-speaking countries)
Linnea (popular in Finland, Norway, and Sweden)
Noelia (popular in Spanish-speaking countries and... Switzerland?)
Octavia (fell off US top 1000 in 1998)
Persephone
Robin (971 for boys, unranked for girls)
SalemAjax
Alastair (not even popular in England and Wales anymore)
Benedict
Edmund
Evren
Moroni (okay, not surprised by this one, haha - I bet it ranks in Utah, though)
Mosiah (same)
Phineas
Salem
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- Rachel Shaina (Evil)   +1
6/24/2016, 9:29 AM
Moroni doesn't rank in Utah either. I'm surprised-- last time it was used enough to appear in the background data was 2009-- 6 boys.
The best it ever ranked was in 2000-- 10 boys were given the name that year. Mosiah only ever appeared in 2001-- 5 boys.
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- Sekhmet (warriorgoddess)
6/24/2016, 10:31 AM
Huh. I know a ton of boys and men named Moroni, but I guess there's not quite enough of a concentration of them actually being born in Utah each year to make the ranking. Thanks for looking that up!
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- Moirrey
6/24/2016, 3:41 AM
I keep a file with rankings for my favourite names, but apparently I haven't updated it since December though, So thanks for the reminder!I’m sure there are plenty of other names I like, but I’m not going to bother searching though lists. It’s like 4 am. Not ranked in the US top 1000:
Ansel
Aurelian
Benedict
Bernard
Caspar
Casper
Cillian
Domhnall / Donal
Eamonn
Edmund
Giles
Horatio
Inigo
Ivo
Japheth
Josias
Jolyon
Laurence – Strangely Lawrence is quite high
Lucien – Lucian does rank but I prefer the French form.
Rufus
Rupert
Sylvain
Sylvan
WilfredAllegra
Artemisia
Beatrix
Cornelia
Dorothea
Flora
Florence
Georgiana
Isadora
Juno
Leticia
Maude
Octavia
Olympia
Ottilie
Petra
Philomena
Silvia
Sylvia
Theodosia
Thora
Violetta
Zenobia
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- Elena
6/23/2016, 3:53 PM
Right off the top of my head, I can think of Aikaterine and Marielle. I understand that Aikaterine may seem too foreign or confusing to some, however, I'm completely at a loss for why Marielle (and Mariella) aren't more popular.
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- NobodyOfConsequence   +1
6/23/2016, 3:08 PM
- AshleyJuliette
6/24/2016, 9:10 AM
I love Ebony, Chiara, Sinead, Xanthe, Kirrily, Isley, Irie, Cleo, Asha, and Amalie. I also like Reilly spelled like this for a boy. Jai is refreshing to see.
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- Myosotis
6/23/2016, 2:31 PM
These are only a few, since I have a lot on my list. According to the England/Wales data (up to 500 but I've excluded the ones I can vaguely remember being in the top 1000): Adira
Amadea
Annabeth
Antoinette
Arietta
Artemis
Evanthe
Fae (but I don't really count it since Faye is in; same with Freyja vs. Freya)
Liza
Marigold
Marilyn
Merida
Morgana
Olympia
Pandora (my favourite name)
Phaedra
Sybil
Thessaly
Valencia
Viola
Zenobia/ZenoviaArtemus
August
Bartholomew
Bennett/Bennet
Bravery
Emrys
Ephraim
Evander
Francesco
Indigo
Leopold
Marlowe
Nikolai
Perseus
Prosper
Skandar
Tennyson
Wolfgang
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- BroadDaylight   +2
6/23/2016, 1:28 PM
Oh man, a bunch of the names on my lists don't appear on the Top 1000:Boys:
Basil
Harris (my #1 boys pick)
Merritt
Sheamus
Eban
Galen
Roderick
Roswell
Tybalt
UlyssesGirls:
Hollis
Keely
Lior
Lucinda
Mica
Sarit
Sisel (my #1 girls pick)
Tamsin
Theodosia
Tzeitel
Yael
Calanthe
Luella
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- Jasmine (silly_rabbit)
6/23/2016, 1:56 PM
Ooh, Keely - that's a name I forgot about. Cute and spunky.Also like
Yael (also Jael and Lael)
Luella Harris is nice
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- AshleyJuliette
6/23/2016, 1:28 PM
I also love Hollis, Lucinda, Tamsin, and Calanthe.
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- AshleyJuliette
6/23/2016, 1:27 PM
I am so glad to see Sheridan on your girl's list!! I am in love with that name.
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- ars musica   +2
6/23/2016, 1:22 PM
- Jasmine (silly_rabbit)
6/23/2016, 1:58 PM
Susanna / Susannah - surprised it's not in the top 1000s.Love to see Shannon - I also like it on either (and would use it).
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- erb816
6/23/2016, 1:28 PM
Isidore is such a cool name! Viola is also on my list.
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- BookEm'Danno (guest)   +4
6/23/2016, 1:01 PM
Elowen is definitely one off the bat I can think of. Elowen is one of my top girls name I wish was within the top 1000. I don't know where it currently ranks but hopefully we'll see it next year or in a few years?? Hopefully...lolRhiannon, Edmund & Ross are good. I like those
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- Myosotis   +1
6/23/2016, 2:08 PM
Usually I'm hoping my favourites will drop off the top 1000 (albeit the England/Wales/UK list) haha.
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- BookEm'Danno (guest)
6/23/2016, 5:41 PM
I feel the opposite way. If there's a name I like, I love to see it increase in popularity. Or, I don't mind if it increases in popularity. (Even if I feel neutral towards that name) It's the names I hate and detest I prefer to decrease on the charts. Quite a few top favorite names of mine increased (even by a smidge) and I couldn't help but to feel giddy at that (:
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- erb816   +1
6/23/2016, 1:20 PM
Elowen is a really pretty name, but I doubt it'll catch on with any significance in the U.S. But I can see it catching in the U.K.
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- BookEm'Danno (guest)
6/23/2016, 5:44 PM
Perhaps so. And it doesn't matter to me if it doesn't catch on significantly in the U.S. Elowen could be stationed at the very bottom and I'd be pleased as punch (:
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- Rachel Shaina (Evil)   +6
6/23/2016, 12:48 PM
I believe the top 1000 is 74-76% of births?
But many many many of my favorites are not on the top 1000-- only 10 of the 44 names on my PNL are in the top 1000. These are not:
Ashley (m)
Eris
Esmee
Eulalie
Evander
Fable
Fae
Fay
Haven
Hero (e)
Hollis
Jorah
Keturah
Larkin (e)
Lenore
Maude
Mavis
Micaiah (m)
Mordecai
Nekoda
Nocturne
Parisa
Pax
Persephone
Seraphina
Seraphine
Silver
Sky
Sparrow
Storm
Tirzah
Zephyra
Zia (m)
Ziya (m)
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- delancy (acemc)
6/24/2016, 9:40 AM
delancy i really really love this name so much but every where i ask i get negative feedback for it. everything from it looks like delaney misspelled and that it looks made up to its too chavy. its a real name that was a surname now used as a first name. no different from the other surnames that are now first names. by the way i hate delaney but everyone has said i prefer delaney. i seem to love names everyone hates and hate names everyone else loves lol.
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- erb816
6/23/2016, 1:19 PM
I like:Eris
Esmee
Fae
Keturah
Lenore
Maude
Mavis
Parisa
Seraphine
Tirzah
&
Jorah
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- ars musica
6/23/2016, 1:18 PM
Love Eulalie and Fay, as well!
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- BookEm'Danno (guest)   +1
6/23/2016, 1:10 PM
Haven & Sky are within the top 1000.
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- Rachel Shaina (Evil)
6/23/2016, 1:16 PM
forgot to mark (m) on Haven... don't like it for a girl. It's not in the top 1000 for boys. I assume BTN used Sky as a male name (I have it on my PNL as m&f), I copied this list with the ranking tool on my PNL.
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- Caprice
6/23/2016, 12:55 PM
I love Seraphina and Seraphine!
I had a friend in middle school who was called Parisa, she was from Iran.
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