Boy Names Outside the Top 1,000 in 2025

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The table uses the uploaded national files directly, so both the rank movement and the number of published births are visible together.

Source: U.S. Social Security Administration national baby-name files for 2024 and 2025. A smaller rank number means the name was more popular.

Outside the Top 1,000 is a starting point, not a rarity score

The first names below #1,000 can still have more than 200 births, while names farther down the list may have only a few dozen. Treat the cutoff as a useful filter rather than a single level of rarity.

Birth counts make the cutoff easier to understand

A rank by itself hides the scale. The count shows whether a name was used a few hundred times, a few dozen times or close to the five-birth privacy floor.

Recognizable names can still sit outside the Top 1,000

Names such as Blaise, Rene, Ansel and Lucius can sound established because of history, literature or cultural familiarity even when current U.S. use is low.

National rank is not a classroom forecast

Names cluster by state, language, religion and community. The national list is a broad reference point, not a promise that your child will never meet someone with the same name.

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