Rare boy names can be tricky to pin down. After all, some of the most perennially popular boy names — like John and James, for example — have been used for literally centuries. And anybody who’s ever had a boy before can attest that from baby clothes to baby names, there just doesn’t seem to be a big selection for boys. So finding rare boy names can be like finding a t-shirt that doesn’t feature a truck or a dinosaur: difficult, to be sure … but not impossible.
This is because the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) is coming in clutch for those of us looking for rare boy names — or equally-unique girl names, for that matter. The agency has kept records of all baby names registered in the United States since the 1880s. And not only does the SSA document what baby names were used, but how often each occurred. Which makes discovering rare boy names a smidge less daunting, because all the info is right here at our fingertips via their website.
Of course, there are a ton of babies born in this country every year, so that’s a lot of names. And trust us, we know: nobody has the time to peruse a database of all the names ever used in the U.S. in the last year. So we took the guesswork out of your search by doing it ourselves!
This list of rare boy names is comprised of names we found in the most recent SSA records, each being used only five times or fewer. The Noahs and Liams of the country might meet themselves coming and going (there were 20,272 and 18,739 of them born in the States last year, respectively), but thanks to this database info, the Braddocks and Ranons certainly will not. They may have a little more trouble finding their names on all the personalized souvenir tchotchkes, but hey, that’s what Etsy and Cricut machines are for.
From Adron to Zennon, here are the some of the rare boy names we’re loving from the most current SSA data.
Rare Boy Names Used 5 Times or Less in 2021
- Adron
- Andri
- Asten
- Bay
- Bennington
- Braddock
- Briton
- Calvert
- Colstyn
- Corran
- Decarlo
- Demier
- Denham
- Desai
- Emri
- Everen
- Ezaias
- Fate
- Faustin (likely a variant of Faustus)
- Finlan
- Halton
- Hastin
- Highland
- Hollan
- Holmes
- Holsten
- Hutchins
- Isra
- Jacek
- Jayari
- Junah
- Kaegan
- Kalo
- Kedric
- Kelin
- Kentley
- Kiyo
- Leilan
- Lennie
- Levvy
- Makias
- Mazzy
- Muse
- Nando (often seen as a diminutive of Fernando)
- Noven
- Pacer
- Phillips
- Ranon
- Renick
- Romare
- Roycen
- Rutger
- Slayton
- Starling
- Stellar
- Tacoma
- Telly
- Teyo
- Tilson
- Venture
- Vigo
- Wagner
- Wyeth
- York
- Zennon
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