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