Movie & TV Names
Hollywood is a naming force: a single blockbuster can pull a name out of nowhere or push a classic to a new peak. Every name here belongs to a screen character — check its chart to see exactly when the movie hit.
| Save name | Name & connection | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wolverine's alias. | 5,576#53 | Down 37 rank positions in five years | 2007 | ||
Aladdin's princess. | 1,481#206 | Down 66 rank positions in five years | 1993 | ||
Disney's Sleeping Beauty. | 7,065#15 | Up 21 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Lovegood — Harry Potter's serene oddball. | 6,076#27 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The Matrix's rooftop-leaping hacker. | 725#428 | Down 203 rank positions in five years | 2004 | ||
Twilight's heroine. | 2,129#136 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2010 | ||
Disney's mermaid — and Shakespeare's airy spirit. | 851#356 | Down 156 rank positions in five years | 1991 | ||
Top Gun's call sign. | 5,894#49 | Up 1 rank positions in five years | 2022 | ||
The title role of Forrest Gump. | 850#374 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 1994 | ||
From Glee to Harley — television's favorite Quinn. | 2,634#97 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 2016 | ||
Frozen's ice queen. | 216#1,104 | Down 187 rank positions in five years | 2014 | ||
Disney's chef-princess of New Orleans. | 491#598 | Up 95 rank positions in five years | 1998 | ||
The Stark who refused to be a lady (Game of Thrones). | 1,858#158 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Star Wars' general-princess. | 1,033#297 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
My Girl's mood-ring heroine. | 302#886 | Down 73 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
The Princess Bride's devoted hero. | 453#619 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The Lion King's queen. | 317#856 | Down 161 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
The Jedi who fell (Star Wars). | 427#648 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
The queen-title Daenerys wore (Game of Thrones). | 410#690 | Up 44 rank positions in five years | 2018 | ||
Star Wars' conflicted dark-sider. | 797#402 | Up 47 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
Alien's unkillable officer. | 243#1,032 | Up 265 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
The deadpan Addams daughter. | 37#3,969 | Down 1,629 rank positions in five years | 2023 | ||
Brave's archer princess. | 65#2,677 | Down 632 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
The Hunger Games ally; Euphoria's narrator. | 169#1,324 | Up 1,169 rank positions in five years | 2024 | ||
The adventuring archaeologist in the fedora. | 60#2,317 | Down 461 rank positions in five years | 2019 | ||
Disney's wayfinding voyager. | 35#4,140 | Down 875 rank positions in five years | 2017 | ||
The warrior who took her father's place. | 72#2,475 | Down 11 rank positions in five years | 2025 | ||
Star Wars' scavenger Jedi. | 24#5,364 | Down 3,216 rank positions in five years | 2020 | ||
The Hunger Games' girl on fire. | 7#12,527 | Down 3,859 rank positions in five years | 2014 |
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Sources & methodology
Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.
Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.