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Twelve Names for Boys

There are 19 Twelve names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Twelve names 1 to 19. Jacob was the most popular among these names in 2008. The name is primarily used in Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian, and it was followed in popularity by the English, Greek, and Russian Andrew, the English, French, and German Joseph, Benjamin, the English Zachary, the Hungarian, English, German, and Hebrew Levi, the English and Hebrew Malachi, Asher, the English, French, and German Simon, the English Judah, the English and Irish Kieran, the English, French, German, and Hebrew Reuben, and the English name, Thaddeus. The unusual Twelve names are Dan (German, English, and Romanian), Gad (English and German), Gallus (German), Isachar (German), Pius (German), and Zebulun (English).

Twelve names are very popular baby names for boys. The names rose in popularity from the 1940s up to the 1990s. At the height of their usage in 1997, 6.140% of baby boys were given Twelve names. There were 13 Twelve names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Twelve names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2008, 13 Twelve names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 4.083%. Within all Twelve names, the Dutch, English, German, and Scandinavian Jacob was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #1 and a usage of 1.0355%.

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Andrew Popularity Trend of Andrew
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 12 12 male, manly, brave, ... the first chosen of the twelve apostles, and the ...

Asher Popularity Trend of Asher
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 206 206 happy, blessed; ash ... ancestor of one of the twelve tribes of Israel ...

Benjamin Popularity Trend of Benjamin
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 25 25 son of the south, son ... on to found one of the twelve tribes of Israel under ...

Dan Popularity Trend of Dan
from 1900 to 2008. judge; God is my judge, ... who founded one of the twelve tribes of Israel named ...

GadAlso used by the twelve tribes of Israel. ...

Gallus Gaul ... disciple and one of the twelve companions of Saint ...

IsacharAlso used by the twelve tribes of Israel. ...

Jacob Popularity Trend of Jacob
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 1 1 Yahweh may protect; ...

Joseph Popularity Trend of Joseph
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 13 13 Yahweh will add (another ... after whom one of the twelve tribes of Israel was ...

Judah Popularity Trend of Judah
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 394 394 praised, he who is praised ... who founded one of the twelve tribes of Israel named ...

Kieran Popularity Trend of Kieran
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 530 530 little dark one, little ... considered among the Twelve Apostles of Ireland ...

Levi Popularity Trend of Levi
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 117 117 attached, associated, ... and they are one of the twelve tribes of Israel ...

Malachi Popularity Trend of Malachi
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 162 162 my messenger ... by the last of the twelve minor prophets, who ...

Pius pious, godly, honorable ... was borne by at least twelve popes, and is often ...

Reuben Popularity Trend of Reuben
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 947 947 behold, a son ... founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel named ...

Simon Popularity Trend of Simon
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 261 261 he who hears, God has ... founder of one of the twelve tribes of Israel named ...

Thaddeus Popularity Trend of Thaddeus
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 955 955 praise, desired; gift ... the Bible by one of the twelve apostles, whose given ...

Zachary Popularity Trend of Zachary
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 47 47 Yahweh has remembered ... including one of the twelve minor prophets of ...

Zebulun exaltation ... who founded one of the twelve tribes of Israel named ...


Popularity Trend
for Twelve Names
from 1900 to 2006Variant Popularity Chart
for Twelve Names
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