Names made famous

A film, show, song or star sent each of these names soaring. Some kept climbing; others faded with the moment.

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A name earns its place when the birth record shows the jump: in the year of the moment or the next, its births at least doubled on the year before (to at least 100 US or 30 UK babies), a clear break from how it was growing already. The name has to be in the story itself (as a person's first name, for a person), so a spelling that rode someone else's fame stays out, and we leave out wars, deaths and disasters. Kept climbing means more babies now than in the five years after the moment and within a fifth of its best year since; faded, fewer than half its best year since; held steady, in between. Moments in the last five years are too soon to tell. Each curve is that name's births from ten years before the moment to 2025; UK records begin in 1996. Each name's number is its national rank for its sex: #12 means the 12th most popular girls' or boys' name overall, not the 12th in this collection, which is why the figures skip as you scan. Data from the 2025 official birth records (US Social Security Administration; UK Office for National Statistics, England & Wales); each sparkline shows births per year in the country you have selected.

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