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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 1990s
In the United States 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Girls 1996 Boys 1996 per 100,000 babies of that sex 12,354 babies given this name since 1968 At its height in 1996, about 1 in 3,000 boys 66 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
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