Widespread Names for Girls

There are 8 Widespread names for baby girls. Displayed on this page are Widespread names 1 to 8. Within these names, Samantha (English, French, and German) was the most popular in 2007, followed in descending order by Katherine (English), Brooke (English), Rachel (English, French, and German), Carmen (English, Romanian, and Spanish), Joy (English and German), and Barbara (English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Slavic, and Spanish). Agnes, which is used in Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian

Widespread names are rather popular as baby girl names. The names' popularity increased from the 1900s up to the 1930s; before that, they were of moderate use only. Their usage peaked in 1938 with 4.090% of baby girls being given Widespread names. Within the top 1000 baby names then, there were 6 Widespread names. The names have slipped in popularity since then. In 2007, their total usage was 1.434% with 7 Widespread names listed among the top 1000. Among all Widespread names, Samantha (English, French, and German) was the most widely used, with a ranking of #12 and a usage of 0.5609%.

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Agnes ... pure, chaste; hunger; ... Ages and contributed to widespread adoption of the name; ...

Barbara 633 ... foreign woman ... onwards, leading to a widespread adoption of the name ...

Brooke 45 ... who lives near brook ... it later gained widespread adoption as a feminine ...

Carmen 275 ... fruit garden, fruitful ... to the name's widespread use among English ...

Joy 521 ... joy ... England, but was only widespread in the 17th century, ...

Katherine 39 ... pure; torture ... popularity led to a widespread adoption of the name by ...

Rachel 60 ... ewe ... it later became more widespread among Christians and ...

Samantha 12 ... became more widespread among general English speakers by ...