Fastest-Rising Baby Names
24 fast-rising baby names. Median rank #24 in the United States for 2024, up 10 places since 2020.
Each line is the median rank of the names in this collection that appear on that place’s list in every complete year shown, inside the top 1,000.
Girls 9 names
| United States 2024 | Name | Meaning | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #8 | Evelyn | Wished-for child | ↑1 |
| #9 | Ava | Life; form of Eve | ↓6 |
| #24 | Lily | Lily flower | ↑11 |
| #28 | Penelope | Weaver (Odysseus's wife) | ↓3 |
| #38 | Lainey | Bright, shining one | ↑328 |
| #101 | Ailany | Invented modern name | new |
| #151 | Emerson | Son of Emery; brave, powerful | ↑4 |
| #266 | Rowan | Little redhead; rowan tree | ↓11 |
| #705 | Ezra | Help | ↑9 |
Boys 16 names
| United States 2024 | Name | Meaning | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Liam | Resolute protector (short for William) | no change |
| #3 | Oliver | Olive tree | no change |
| #4 | Theodore | Gift of God | ↑19 |
| #7 | Mateo | Gift of God (form of Matthew) | ↑13 |
| #8 | Elijah | My God is Yahweh | ↓4 |
| #12 | Levi | Joined, attached | ↑6 |
| #13 | Ezra | Help | ↑31 |
| #20 | Asher | Happy, blessed | ↑12 |
| #24 | Leo | Lion | ↑12 |
| #26 | Owen | Young warrior; well-born | ↓4 |
| #30 | Julian | Youthful (from Julius) | ↑4 |
| #52 | Roman | Citizen of Rome | ↑25 |
| #70 | Weston | Western town (place/surname) | ↑34 |
| #71 | Rowan | Little redhead; rowan tree | ↑42 |
| #270 | Emerson | Son of Emery; brave, powerful | ↓2 |
| #991 | Truce | Cessation of conflict (word name) | new |
Also in this collection, but not on the 2024 United States list: Asees, Zorawar.
How this collection is built
The names are grouped by hand; every rank beside them is an official birth registration count, read from the 2024 the United States list. A name that ranks for both girls and boys appears under both tabs with its own rank in each — those two positions are often far apart, and that gap is the interesting part.
See the same names year by year in the full rankings.
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