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Prominent Names for Boys

There are 28 Prominent names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Prominent names 1 to 20. Adrian was the most popular among these names in 2008 with a rank of #56 and a usage of 0.365%. The name is primarily used in English, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian, and it was followed in popularity by the English Hayden, the English and Polish Edward, the English and Scottish Donald, Douglas, the English Dayton, Brent, Clinton, and lastly the English name, Broderick. The unusual Prominent names are Bonaventura (German and Italian), Boniface (English and French), Cathal (Irish), Cian (English and Irish), Clifford (English), Cyril (Czech, English, German, and Slavic), Dudley (English), Fabius (Latvian, Lithuanian, and German), Galen (English), Gaylord (English), and Herbert (English, French, and German).

Prominent names are popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1929, 5.767% of baby boys were given Prominent names. There were 16 Prominent names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Prominent names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but in recent years they are nonetheless of heavy use. In 2008, 13 Prominent names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 1.616%. Within all Prominent names, the English, French, and German Samuel was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #28 and a usage of 0.5829%.

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Adrian Popularity Trend of Adrian
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 56 56 man from Hadria; dark ... association with a prominent Roman officer who ...

Bonaventura good fortune ... (1221-1274), a prominent monk considered as the ...

Boniface good fate, well-doer, ... of the Germans, was a prominent missionary in Germany ...

Brent Popularity Trend of Brent
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 558 558 hill ... ground or named for the prominent hills in their ...

Broderick Popularity Trend of Broderick
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 899 899 broad ridge; famously ... place names with prominent ridges in its vicinity ...

Cathal battle-mighty; man, ... and descendants of the prominent Clan Macpherson (Gaelic ...

Cian ancient one ... and by the ancient and prominent Clan Cian otherwise ...

Clifford Popularity Trend of Clifford
from 1900 to 2008. ford by a cliff ... was well known from a prominent aristocratic family ...

Clinton Popularity Trend of Clinton
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 856 856 settlement by the River ... in honor of the prominent Clinton family, which ...

Cyril Popularity Trend of Cyril
from 1900 to 2008. of the lord ... (378-444) were prominent theologians and Doctors ...

Dayton Popularity Trend of Dayton
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 484 484 ditch town; dairy town ... whose members were prominent 18th- and 19th-century ...

Donald Popularity Trend of Donald
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 331 331 world ruler, world-mighty ... associated with the prominent Scottish clan ...

Douglas Popularity Trend of Douglas
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 424 424 dark river ... first name is from the prominent Scottish surname ...

Dudley Popularity Trend of Dudley
from 1900 to 2008. Dudda's clearing ... and became a prominent governor; his surname ...

Edward Popularity Trend of Edward
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 148 148 guardian of riches ... Conquest, but the most prominent were King Edward the ...

Fabius grower of beans ... was well-known for its prominent warriors, including ...

Galen Popularity Trend of Galen
from 1900 to 2008. calm ... Galen of Pergamum, a prominent Greek physician whose ...

Gaylord Popularity Trend of Gaylord
from 1900 to 2008. dandy ... Gaylords were a prominent US family in New England; ...

Hayden Popularity Trend of Hayden
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 76 76 heathen ... one of the most prominent composers of the ...

Herbert Popularity Trend of Herbert
from 1900 to 2008. army, warrior; bright, ... earls of Pembroke, a prominent family in the 16th and ...


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