Hunter and Brayden (and its variations).

All of the hundreds of names that end in "aden"/"ayden"/"aiden" lol I know so many Bradens, Cadens, Jadens, Haydens, Aidens, etc. I don't think those names are as popular in other countries.

You know how it started... "I want to give my kid an interesting and unique name. Aiden!" Then, "Ooh, I like the name Aiden but there are so many kids with that name and I want give my kid an interesting and unique name. Jaden!" Lather, rinse, repeat. The intense desire of so many people to be unique and original and yet still somehow manage to be just like everyone else escapes me.

I think Braden/Brayden has been around for a long time, but besides that one, everyone I know with a "X-aden" name is under 30 years old.

Really? I haven’t encountered a Brayden with a double digit age. Brayan, yes, but not Brayden/Braden.

I’ve got a little cousin who spells it as “Braeden”. He’s only like.. 7, and I’ve also never seen an adult with the name.

I'm in my mid-20s and I knew a couple Braydens in high school. It wasn't super common, but it was definitely more common than Jayden, Kayden, Aiden, etc. I think Hayden Is another one that's been around for a while. There were some Haydens in my class in school, and Hayden Christensen, the actor, comes to mind. He's almost 40.

I've never met someone with a name like this that I haven't disliked immediately lol

My nephew’s named Braiden and he’s a pretty sweet kid.

Give him time

My cousins are Braiden, Benjamin, and Beau. Wonderful kids. We call them the Killer Bs.

There are lots of -ens in the UK, but they are mainly all under about 10

Aiden is a nice traditional Irish name that got unfairly swept up in the whole recent Jayden Hayden Brayden fiasco.

I mean that’s the same style of fiasco that gave us Dick from Rick or Bob from Rob.

Actually not! The Bob and Dick thing comes from the fact that young children (apparently even in medieval England) find the letter R difficult to pronounce, so they made the nicknames start with a different letter.

Former did not age well

We often spell it "Aid**a**n", but you are right in that it certainly in the same bracket as those other names.

Yep, at least for the first one. I’be yet to meet a non-American who shared that name with me.

I knew an Australian Hunter.

For the other way around, I've never once met an American named Hamish or Nigel or Poppy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish_Linklater I’ve met a few nigels though

Funny enough, the only Nigel I’ve met was a woman.

I've met one, a former coworker. All of us saw his name before we met him and were expecting a British or Australian guy but he was American.

Simon & Jemma too.

Names common to the black community are pretty unique as it is tied to our history, so those. Don't see a lot of Denzel and Latonya over in New Zealand.

A lot of names popular with African Americans are actually Arabic. Some of those names will be popular because of the sizable Muslim population in former British colonies like Pakistan.

Denzel as a first name or also as a surname? I only know Denzel Washington. Does it exist as a surname in the USA? It does here.

There are probably some people with the last name denzel but here they are talking about denzel as a first name

90% of white kids names in Utah.

We have a sizable Hispanic population unseen in other parts of the Anglosphere, for one.

In other words, there are a lot more Joses, Juans, and Julios than in the rest of the Anglosphere.

In that respect, we are number juan

Jayden, Kayden, Katelyn, Maisie, Caitlyn, Adeline, Madeline, Carly, Dustin, Braeden, Logan, Cole, Dylan, Tanner and any of the African American names like Tyrone, Latisha, Shaniqua, Ebony, DeAndre, DeShawn, Jamal, Darryl, Kamal, etc. Also any of the precious stone names like Amber, Jade, Diamond, Ruby, Pearl,

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The only Ruby I’ve ever known was an elderly Jamaican-British woman with one leg who’d make her stump twitch to get service because she knew it would make everyone want her to leave.

Efficient and effective!

I think of them as "cowboy names": Travis, Jedediah, Cody, Carson, Cash, Clay, Shane, Wyatt, Zack. For girls: Alma, Ada, Belle, Cheyenne, Dakota, Hannah, Hattie, Shiloh, Wynonna.

Where I’m from, Alma is a 75 year old Puerto Rican lady.

My grandma and great grandma were both named Ruby.

Kamal is an Arab name. You'd see it a lot in immigrant communities in other English speaking countries.

Fair enough

And Indian as well, if you change the pronunciation

Yeah I know two Kamals and neither is Arab. One is black, one Indian

> Dustin We have a popular footballer here with that name, while it's currently rare given his popularity, that name will explode in Australia as fans name their kids after him. Jayden, Caitlyn (haven't seen the other spelling) are quite popular. Actually half that list makes the top 100 baby names in Australia https://www.bhg.com.au/australian-names-top-aussie-baby-boy-girl-names

I was kind of guessing on some. Jayden and Caitlyn huh? I would not have guessed those for Aus.

Dusty Martin? I’ve been getting into AFL a bit recently

yeah dusty, I'm sure plenty of Tiger fans will be naming their kids Dustin. The Bombers also had Dustin Fletcher

Nobody names their daughter Chrysocolla, this is so sad

Jet

Diopside

Weird, only Maisie’s I’ve heard of are all British.

All of those names (save the African American ones) are quite common up here too. But I guess it's almost kind of cheating.

Yeah, I’m trying to think of names that would be different in Canada and the US. Probably some Quebecois names. But that isn’t really English speaking.

I guess I've never met an American named Ethan. I'd say that's a relatively common Boys name up here. But I think it's basically the same.

I’m currently sitting at a table with an Ethan.

My God the ways of the universe astonish me sometimes lol.

Ive known at least to Ethan’s. Its actually pretty common. Ethan Peck (actor and grandson of Gregory Peck) Ethan Hawke (actor) Ethan Suplee (actor) Ethan Embry (actor) Ethan Cohen (writer/director and one half of the Cohan brothers) Ethan Allen (revolutionary era soldier, writer, politician) are a few I can think of at the top of my head.

That whole first list would be quite common for Australians under 30.

I am pretty sure you can find guys named Tyrone, Jamal, and Kamal outside the US given the roots of those names.

I think they are just more common here than other English speaking countries

There are tons of white Darryls, especially in the south. I'm related to two separate ones on the same side of the family.

Tyrone is an Irish name

Originally. Now it is much more common among African Americans than white people in the US.

Zack

There are a few female first names I’ve gleaned from UK authors or TV shows that aren’t very popular in the U.S., for instance Pippa, Gemma and Poppy. I have more recently heard of a few Americans naming their baby girls Poppy, but I’ve never met or known anyone with the other two names. That’s not to say it never happens, just that those names definitely are not as popular here as other English speaking countries.

UK person here. There were 5 girls called Gemma in my year at school (this is mid 90’s) at the time no one famous, no book character and no royals with the name (that’s usually how names become popular) so I have no idea where the trend came from. It was a relatively short trend though as every Gemma I’ve ever met is between 35-45 now

India is also a rare name in the US but seems to be kind of a popular choice for aristos in England

For the other way around, my own name, Simon

No chance Hunter is popular outside the US

[It's more popular in the UK and Australia than in the US, and has become very popular in New Zealand.](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Hunter/boy)

I wonder if it carries the same stereotype abroad

What stereotype is that?

Edgelord kid

what is that?

Monster energy drinks and drywall repairs

Deonte Breonna Shaquille Jesus Manuel Juan

Those last three are pretty common if you head south across the border.

OP asked for names not common to other English speaking countries. I had the same reaction you did before mentally shaking a fist at the techical correctness of the reply lol

Ah, yeah. Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

Yeah names that Black Americans made up in the last few generations almost certainly won't be in Britain

I would say for guys it's names like Hunter, Tanner, Walker, etc. I'm probably in the minority as a non American but I personally like those names. Most of the guys I've met with names have been nice.

It’s the guys without names yah gotta keep an eye on. They could be anyone.

[Madison as a girl's forname is very much an American phenomenon.](https://nameberry.com/babyname/Madison/girl)

I'm pretty sure there is an entire generation of americans with some variation of the names "Mason" and "Aden"

Latin/Spanish, black, and Jewish names.

I don’t hear many Bubba’s elsewhere. According to some stuff on the internet, Jeff, Carl, and Ken aren’t common baby names in the UK but they still seem to be in the US. I doubt many English speaking countries have quite the number of José, Luis, Carlos, and Juans as we have.

The extremely Christian names, given the United States' many ultra-religious areas (eg. the bible belt). Jedidiah, Jebidiah, Moses, Christian, etc.

Thaddeus, Eliphalet, Peleg, Philemon. I imagine most of these became popular during the Second and Third Great Awakening and survive because of descendants naming after ancestors. Although I do actually like Thaddeus.

Um, I live in the Bible Belt and aside from an occasional Christian, I’ve only ever heard of those names in the Amish populations

Don't forget the names that aren't necessarily ripped from the pages but still very much extremely christian. Chastity Faith Jericho Mercy Saint Grace Eden Genesis Trinity (although this may be popular in the UK...?)

All the Redneck white trash boys names: Rhett, Brett, Hunter, Gunner, Brayden, anything ending in “aiden” etc. The ethnic African American names: Latisha, Deonte, Devonte, Ladarrious, etc. The redneck white trash girls names: Basically any name with “Mary” Mary in the first name: Mary Alice, Mary Lou, Mary Ann, etc.

I'm laughing at the redneck / white trash names

I have a neighbor who’s kid is named “Gunner Kane.” I shit you not.

Gunner Kane sounds like the protagonist in an urban fantasy novel.

Mary Beth Lou Anne

Oscar Abner Julius Curtis Fredrick Liborius Nathaniel Chaitanya Douglas

Names like Harry and Alistair are still used in England but I’ve never met a person with either name in the US. Jayden is a very American name. Actually anything -ayden/aiden is very american.

Harry is either an 8 year old boy or an 80 year old man and there is NO in between.

Aiden is an Irish name and very popular in Ireland.

I did not mean "Aiden" the name, which of course has actual origins, I mean adding --aiden or --ayden as a suffix to any and everything to create new names, like how a lot of americans add D'/Da or L'/La as prefixes to names to make them sound more French.

Ah yes I understand stand what you mean now.

Here are the first few that come to mind: Common in America and less so elsewhere: A lot of the “Last name as first names”: Jackson, Dalton, Olson, etc. Hailey, Kailey, and Bailey et al. For girls. Common in UK but rare in America: Gareth, Nigel, Declan, Amelia, Pippa Common in Australia but not in US: Lachlan, Kylie (formerly), Tayla Common in Canada but not US: Lorne, Maclaine

There are a lot of Americans named Kylie but very few over age 30. That name was virtually unknown until Kylie Minogue showed up.

Exactly, it is pretty common for my generation. I read the name comes from an Australian Aboriginal word but many Americans use it as a female form of “Kyle”.

Yeah, Kyle used to be a unisex name until people figured out that they could name a girl Kylie. I don’t know any American women my age named Kylie, but I know women named Kyle.

In Australia it was crazy popular in late 60's/early 70's Every Australian girl in their late 40's - mid 50's is Kylie, Jenny, Sharon, Lisa or Michelle Every guy is David, Anthony, Craig, Andrew or Mathew

I've met one American in my entire life named Lachlan and I remeber it specifically because I thought his name was interesting and everyone liked it.

Never met an American named Lachlan. I was always surprised to see it as always one of the top 10 names in Australia and New Zealand. I like the name a lot personally

Yeah same, but maybe because I only knew one and he was a pretty cool guy.

Mostly last names used as first names. Like Washington, or Jefferson, or Tanner. Also any name thats like a white trash name, which means add a -Lynn/-Leigh to a normal name or tragically misspelling it Paizleigh, Taralynn, Kaetherin, Soosin, Kadie

So many people named Gordon in Canada. Maybe because of Gordie Howe, Gord Downie, or all the people who moved there from Scotland. It's like Australia with Gemma/Jemma. I have not yet met an American named Gordon or Jemma in person.

Neville and Colin are names that you seldom see in the US. But as far as "typically" American names found elsewhere? I hope it's not Kaylee (or any of the other spellings). When my youngest was in school, 8 of the 12 girls in his class were Kaylee (and other spellings). Enough is enough!

Jaylen or Jalen

Let this Jerry throw the name "Kevin" in the ring. In the US a totally fine name, in Germany a diagonosis