![[OC] common unisex baby names in the US, 1940-2024 & 2000-2024](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/qljtu6c0kqvf1-626x1536.png "[OC] common unisex baby names in the US, 1940-2024 & 2000-2024")
All names with >= 25k (1940-2024) or >= 10k (2000-2024) births for both sexes in the United States, sorted by % female (descending). Bar heights are scaled by relative popularity (within bounds). Blog post with code & analysis: https://nameplay.org/blog/common-unisex-names-by-gender-ratio
This post is an attempt to address common (constructive) critiques from my last post on unisex names.
Posted by aar0nbecker
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Data source: [Social Security Administration full baby name dataset](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)
Tools:
* Analysis: Jupyter, Python, polars
* Visualization: matplotlib, aquarel (theming)
Blog post with all code: https://nameplay.org/blog/common-unisex-names-by-gender-ratio
Justice and Kerry should fight to the death
Didn’t you post this yesterday?
I don’t understand the new American trend of naming a daughter Emerson. It literally translates to Emer’s Son.
Hey, one of those is my name!
I wonder if there was an uptick in Rories and Finlays in the early 2010s
Never heard Harley as a boys name. Interesting that it’s near 50/50
I like the bar height for total popularity but it was subtle, I had to read the explanation before I realized what it was. Just another fun fact, there are at least 23 names on that list that originated from surnames, another 9 are nicknames.
It’s fitting that Justice is almost dead even
Is Kim unisex or do different ethnicities/regions use it for different sexes (ie males in East Asian Americans, females for European Americans)?
Considering there’s such a disparity between sexes for “Ryan” who decided that was a unisex name
I always wish they’d include erin/aaron on these
Weird that Skylar is so different than Skyler
Both my first and middle name are on the list! When my mom found out she was pregnant with me, she pronounced my name and said it would be my name, regardless of whether I was a girl or a boy. Both names heavily skew female, so it was lucky I ended up a girl!
Being a non native English speaker is making me absolutely tweak at these names’ gender ratios. Like WTF do you mean Dakota isn’t a girls’ name?!
Didn’t know Alexis was considered unisex in the US, and leaning towards girls. In France it’s 100% a boy’s name.
I’m not a native English speaker but I didn’t know like 1/3 of these were unisex.
The us has to be the only place in the world where ryan can be considered a girls name… it means little king in Irish
It’s surprising to me that Jordan is mostly a masculine name, because I feel like I usually see girls with the name Jordan.
Weird, in my country Robin is exclusively a male name and Morgan too sounds very male to me.
*You guys have a lot of a unisex names.*
Emerson annoys me the most