Unknown
A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 99 babies a year in the US.
Babies a year
99
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list
Unknown by the numbers
Unknown was given to 99 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 646 babies in 1954, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Unknown
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Names about as common as Unknown
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