NewName Shortlist 0 Meaning This name is in the birth records, but its history has not yet been added to the library. We add meanings only when they can be given with a source.
Its wave through time Fading since the 1970s
In the United States 0 20 40 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Peak 1973 per million babies of that sex 2,104 babies given this name since 1947 At its height in 1970, about 1 in 22,700 girls 12 babies in 2020 Names worth a look Doris Girl Greek, 'Dorian woman', from the Dorian people. Greece · peak 1929 Teresa Girl Of uncertain origin; it first appears in Spain and Portugal, and proposed links to Greek therizein 'to harvest' are… Middle Ages · peak 1962 Tracy Girl or boy From a Norman baronial surname taken from places in France such as Tracy-Bocage, from a Gallo-Roman estate name. The… Modern · peak 1970 Tristan Boy From the Pictish or Brittonic name Drust/Drustan. The link to French triste 'sad' is a medieval folk etymology. Middle Ages · peak 1996 Darius Boy From Old Persian Dārayavauš, 'holding firm the good'. Modern · peak 1994 Trystan Boy From British Drust or Drustan, of uncertain meaning; the link to French triste 'sad' is a medieval folk etymology. Middle Ages · peak 2010 Drusilla Girl Latin, a diminutive of Drusus, a Roman family name of uncertain origin. Biblical · peak 1886 · forgotten Tirzah Girl Hebrew Tirtsah, usually read as 'pleasantness, delight', from ratsah 'to be pleased'. Biblical · peak 2017 · forgotten Where this comes from United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.