NewName Shortlist 0 Gallery I The Modern Age 1880 to today The age of birth records. Every name given to at least five American babies in a year since 1880 is counted here, so each name's rise and fall can be seen year by year. Gallery II Victorian and Belle Époque 1837 to 1914 Flower and jewel names, virtue names, and the great revival of medieval names. Gallery III The Age of Revolutions 1750 to 1837 Georgian England, the young United States, Napoleonic Europe and the new republics of Latin America. Gallery IV The Colonial Americas 1500 to 1800 Settler names from Spain, Portugal, France, England and the Netherlands, and the virtue names of the Puritans. Gallery V The Renaissance 1400 to 1600 The names of Florence and Venice, Valois France, Spain's Golden Age and Tudor England. Gallery VI The High and Late Middle Ages 1100 to 1450 Names from tax rolls, charters and chronicles across medieval Europe. Gallery VII The Viking and Anglo-Saxon Age 700 to 1100 Old Norse names from sagas and runestones, and Old English names from charters and chronicles. Gallery VIII The Early Middle Ages 400 to 800 Frankish and Gothic kings and queens, the saints of Ireland and Wales, and the first Christian kingdoms. Gallery IX Ancient Rome 750 BC to AD 476 Roman personal, family and surnames, many still in use today. Gallery X Ancient Greece 800 BC to 146 BC The names of poets, philosophers, heroes and queens. Gallery XI The Biblical World About 1200 BC to AD 100 Hebrew, Aramaic and early Christian names, the foundation of naming across Europe and the Americas. Gallery XII The Celtic World 800 BC to AD 800 Gaulish and British names of the Iron Age, and the early names of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall and Brittany. Gallery XIII Indigenous Americas From the earliest records to today Personal names documented among the Indigenous nations of the Americas. 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.