Boys’ Names Ins and Outs

Yesterday we took a look at the girls’ names moving in and out of fashion and now we turn our attention to their brothers.

And here we find a somewhat different picture.

Overall, it confirms the fact that there is much greater consistency on the boys’ side of the fence, with a huge proportion of the names already established in the Top 100 list of 1880, and very few new ones entering in the succeeding years: only one or two per decade, with a large number of them having Irish roots.

Names that we might think of as fairly recent favorites were already on the list in the 1880s: Cameron, Carson, Carter, Chase, Cole and Cooper, Hunter and Haydn, for example. (Further evidence of the 100-year rule.)

So, again, here they are, arranged by decade, and then giving the particular years that they were among the Top 100.

1880s

• Angel: 1888, 1891, 1899, 1907-1910, 1912-1914, 1916-2009
• Blake: 1883, 1886, 1892-1894, 1897, 1903, 1906, 1911, 1920-21, 1933, 1942-1943, 1945-2009
• Bryan: 1883, 1886, 1890, 1892, 1894-2009
• Caleb: 1880-1907, 1909-1911, 1914-1915, 1917-1918, 1920, 1922, 1925, 1964, 1966, 1968-1009
• Cameron: 1882-1885m 1888, 1895-1896, 1900, 1911-1912, 1916, 1920-1924, 1926, 1930-1931, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1941-2009
• Carson: 1880-1882, 1884-1892, 1894-1896, 1898-2009
• Carter: 1881, 1883-1977, 1980-2009
• Chase: 1885, 1972-2009
• Cole: 1886, 1912, 1951, 1954-1965, 1967-2009
• Cooper: 1882, 1885-1887, 1889, 1982, 1984-2009
• Diego: 1887, 1958, 1963-2009
• Dominic: 1885, 1887, 1890-1892, 1894-2009
• Ethan: 1882, 1884, 1886-1887, 1891, 1893, 1896, 1898, 1901, 1952, 1954, 1956-2009
• Hayden: 1880, 1885, 1888-1892, 1895-1901, 1903-1930, 1922-1936, 1941-1944, 1947, 1986-2009
• Hunter: 1880-1886, 1888-1902, 1904-1920, 1922-1924, 1926-1929, 1931-1932, 1934-1935, 1945-1950, 1954, 1956-2009
• Isaiah: 1880-1968, 1971-2009
• Jason: 1880-1898, 1900-2009
• Jesus: 1880-1890, 1892-2009
• Jordan: 1880-1889, 1891-1901, 1903-1910, 1912-1915, 1917, 1919-2009
• Josiah: 1880-1896, 1898-1899, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1975-2009
• Justin: 1880-1881, 1884-1886, 1888-1894, 1896-2009
• Kyle: 1881, 1888, 1891, 1893-1895, 1899, 1902-1906, 1908-1910, 1912, 1914-2009
• Landon: 1882-1884, 1887, 1892-1893, 1989=1899, 1903, 1909, 1935-1937, 1963-2009
• Logan: 1880-1906, 1908-1927, 1929, 1932-1936, 1939-1941, 1942-1949, 1951, 1953-1955, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1973-2009
• Lucas: 1881, 1882, 1885-1886, 1891-1894, 1896, 1898-1899, 1903, 1908-1909, 1913, 1915, 1918, 1923, 195992009
• Miguel: 1880-1886, 1889-1009
• Parker: 1880-1906, 1908-1954, 1957, 1965, 1968, 1978-2009
• Sebastian: 1881-1882, 1886, 1889, 1892, 1895, 1898, 1901, 1903-1905, 1907-1949, 1958, 1960-2009
• Tyler: 1880, 1889, 1900, 1911, 1946-2009
• Wyatt: 1880-=1890, 1892-1901, 1903, 1905, 1907-1920, 1923-1925, 1928, 1932, 1939-1940, 1932-1944, 1948, 1950, 1952-1009
• Xavier: 1890, 1948-2009

1900s

• Ryan: 1906, 1946-2009

1920s

• Brian: 1925-2009
• Kevin: 1921-1925m 1927-2009

1930s

• Ian: 1935-2009

1940s

• Sean: 1943-2009
• Zachary: 1946-2009

1950s

• Brandon: 1950-2009
• Gavin: 1954-1956, 1958, 1960-2009

1960s

• Dylan: 1966-2009
• Liam: 1967, 1974-2009

1970s

• Brody: 1976, 1979-1981, 1984-1009
• Tristan: 1971-2009

1980s

• Colton: 1982-2009
• Connor: 1981-2009

1990s

• Aidan: 1990-1009
• Aiden: 1995-2009
• Ayden: 1999-2009
• Brayden: 1991-2009
• Jayden: 1994-2009