babynamepicker

Rare Baby Names

Names that were once common enough to reach the top 500 and are now given to fewer than one child in ten thousand. All 100 still appeared in 2025, so none of them has disappeared — they are simply out of fashion.

All 100 names

  1. Alvie boys 5
  2. Arther boys 5
  3. Barney boys 5
  4. Berry boys 5
  5. Chas boys 5
  6. Cicero boys 5
  7. Delmer boys 5
  8. Dewitt boys 5
  9. Edsel boys 5
  10. Garfield boys 5
  11. Granville boys 5
  12. Gregg boys 5
  13. Harding boys 5
  14. Jerod boys 5
  15. Jewell boys 5
  16. Kanye boys 5
  17. Lafe boys 5
  18. Lenard boys 5
  19. Lew boys 5
  20. Loyd boys 5
  21. Olaf boys 5
  22. Tod boys 5
  23. Alene girls 5
  24. Arrie girls 5
  25. Belva girls 5
  26. Bess girls 5
  27. Carlene girls 5
  28. Carolann girls 5
  29. Danette girls 5
  30. Dona girls 5
  31. Eula girls 5
  32. Hester girls 5
  33. Jaimie girls 5
  34. Jimmie girls 5
  35. Johnie girls 5
  36. Kerrie girls 5
  37. Lyda girls 5
  38. Maranda girls 5
  39. Maurine girls 5
  40. Merle girls 5
  41. Patrice girls 5
  42. Patty girls 5
  43. Sherrie girls 5
  44. Tena girls 5
  45. Tennille girls 5
  46. Tonia girls 5
  47. Tressie girls 5
  48. Zetta girls 5
  49. Zona girls 5
  50. Zula girls 5
  51. Adlai boys 6
  52. Alva boys 6
  53. Bert boys 6
  54. Buford boys 6
  55. Dell boys 6
  56. Dudley boys 6
  57. Eldridge boys 6
  58. Horatio boys 6
  59. Jeromy boys 6
  60. Jodie boys 6
  61. Kennith boys 6
  62. Kermit boys 6
  63. Kim boys 6
  64. Lyman boys 6
  65. Mitch boys 6
  66. Rogers boys 6
  67. Scot boys 6
  68. Stacey boys 6
  69. Toney boys 6
  70. Tracey boys 6
  71. Waldo boys 6
  72. Avis girls 6
  73. Bernadine girls 6
  74. Cheri girls 6
  75. Germaine girls 6
  76. Jami girls 6
  77. Jerri girls 6
  78. Ladonna girls 6
  79. Leone girls 6
  80. Lupe girls 6
  81. Lynne girls 6
  82. Margery girls 6
  83. Mozelle girls 6
  84. Nanette girls 6
  85. Patti girls 6
  86. Roxann girls 6
  87. Sadye girls 6
  88. Sheri girls 6
  89. Sophronia girls 6
  90. Tammie girls 6
  91. Tracie girls 6
  92. Vinnie girls 6
  93. Bob boys 7
  94. Lafayette boys 7
  95. Lavar boys 7
  96. Lupe boys 7
  97. Maynard boys 7
  98. Rob boys 7
  99. Roswell boys 7
  100. Sid boys 7

How rare these names actually are

The rarest name on the list is Alvie: 5 children in 2025, about one in 341,615 boys born that year. The threshold for the list is fewer than 10 per 100,000, which is one in ten thousand.

Every name here was once common. The highest any of them reached was Bert, #47 in 1880. Four of the 100 were inside the top 100 at some point. All of them still appeared in 2025, so none has disappeared — a name given to fewer than five children in a year is left out of the file altogether, and these were not.

49 of the hundred are ranked among girls and 51 among boys, and the most common of them, Bob, still had 7 births in 2025 — rare here means rare against the whole year's births, not unheard of.

These are names with a date on them. Their best years run from 1880 to 2004, and the median is 1920 — so the typical name here was at its most popular 105 years ago. None is in the top 500 today.

Questions about rare baby names

What counts as a rare baby name?

On this list, a name given to fewer than 10 children per 100,000 born — fewer than one in ten thousand — that had also reached the top 500 at some point since 1880.

What is the rarest name here?

Alvie, with 5 births in 2025 — about one in 341,615 boys.