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10 Names Trending 📈

The unique names readers are searching this week

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Sophie Kihm
Sep 22, 2022
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Hello again, paid subscribers! One of your ~weekly perks~ is a list of ten uncommon names that attracted extra attention on Nameberry over the past seven days. (I spend a lot of time with the site statistics, and this is hands-down my favorite thing to see).

So without further ado, let’s get into the names people searched this week!

Boreal

Boreal has never been recorded as a name for either sex in the US, but the girls’ page was trending on the site earlier this week. It comes from the Latin word for northern, borealis, which makes it a bad choice as a sibling name for Aurora (don’t do it!)

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