Names That Are Variations

Tayla is a hybrid name, ala Sayla and Mikayla. Recipe for sudden -- if brief -- new name success: take two of the trendiest choices, Taylor and Kayla, stir, and voila...Tayla, which made it onto the hit parade in the mid-1990s.

This spelling adds a touch of the unusual to Veronica.

More common -- when it was common -- with the Meyer spelling.

Cameron is starting to fall slightly since its peak in the early 2000s, but is still comfortably in the Top 100. The Camryn spelling has historically been more popular on the girls' side, though it did rank briefly for boys in the late 2000s.

Variation of Kylie with the popular suffix -ee. Kylie was popular in Australia in the 1970s and 80s, said to come from a Noongar word for "boomerang". In the US, it has also been used as a feminization of the Scottish male name Kyle.

This name taken from one of the legendary founders of Rome suddenly feels more possible for a baby in the English-speaking world, with the rise of many Rome-related names, from Roman to Romy to Romilly and Romaine.

Orsola is chic in Italy in a way that Ursula is not in the U.S. And English speakers will inevitably hear this chic, sleek name as Ursula, condemned to purgatory as the name of the hideous sea-witch who terrorized Disney's Little Mermaid.

A Latinate name with a lot of dash and bravado.

Hyman was commonly used by first-generation Jewish immigrants to Anglicize Chaim, but similarities to terms like heinie and hymen have taken it out of the realm of modern possibility. The original Chaim would be preferable to Hyman.

Luxury baby name associated with Jacques Cartier's eponymous jewelry company.

Though Patrice is still common for boys in France, it has long been feminine here.

A contemporary, feminized variation of Carson.

While Corey and its variations are losing fashion steam, the sound-alike Kori has new appeal as a name with a trendy animal meaning from the Kikuyu culture.

As common in Greece as John is here.

Though it sounds like Karen, this spelling makes the name more distinctive.

Though it lends itself well to the pleasant nickname Ty, it's also the name of an antibiotic powder for animals.

Actress Milla Jovovich chose this uncommon but usable Welsh boy name for her daughter in 2020.

Notably borne by Faustin Soulouque, a 19th-century president, and later emperor, of Haiti.

This variation of the popular Arabic name has now been in the Top 500 for several years. It wasn't even in the Top 1000 before the 1980s.