Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / List- Names That are Going Extinct from June 22nd, 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I have here a list, oh thirty baby names that
- 0:05Speaker 1: are at risk of going extinct. Huh, names that people
- 0:09Speaker 1: just aren't using anymore.
- 0:11Speaker 2: So it's a proper list.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Yes, okay, it's Radio from Hell with another list because
- 0:17Speaker 3: people love a good list.
- 0:20Speaker 4: X ninety six.
- 0:21Speaker 5: Well, you know, we have a mandate from the government
- 0:24Speaker 5: to make more babies, right, so, uh, names for these babies.
- 0:29Speaker 1: Well, and I think maybe we ought to try to
- 0:31Speaker 1: rescue some of these names by having babies and naming
- 0:35Speaker 1: them these things. Plenty of names are of course standing
- 0:38Speaker 1: the test of time. This comes from Baby Center. By
- 0:41Speaker 1: the way, the longevity of some of the names at
- 0:44Speaker 1: the top of the list.
- 0:45Speaker 4: That are a great. Sophia is a classic.
- 0:48Speaker 1: It was our number one name for more than a
- 0:51Speaker 1: decade and it's still in the top three today. Other
- 0:54Speaker 1: timeless picks William, Emma, Noah, Matthew, Luke is about of
- 1:00Speaker 1: Benjamin and Jack. So those names, you know, they're solid still.
- 1:04Speaker 1: But here are the names that are just starting to.
- 1:07Speaker 5: Fade away, trending down. They so what they do is
- 1:10Speaker 5: they keep track of you know, like like births and
- 1:15Speaker 5: the names on birth certificates.
- 1:16Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be the way to do it. So
- 1:19Speaker 1: girls' names that are just going and I don't know
- 1:22Speaker 1: if these are. It's just one through fifteen.
- 1:24Speaker 4: I don't know.
- 1:27Speaker 1: Carly going kind of going down. McKinley, it's Charlie. Oh
- 1:34Speaker 1: it is Charlie. Excuse me, I misread. That's Charlie for
- 1:37Speaker 1: a girl with cue at c H R L E
- 1:40Speaker 1: I g H Charlie McKinley. Now here's now here's the
- 1:48Speaker 1: name I've never heard.
- 1:50Speaker 4: Not Tricia, Pricia with a P. Yes, maybe it's Pricia.
- 1:57Speaker 4: Maybe Sasha Ezra. That's not a girl's name, is it?
- 2:04Speaker 1: No?
- 2:05Speaker 4: What's that doing on there? Yeah? Mia, Kenna Corey with
- 2:11Speaker 4: a K door door, that's a fancy name.
- 2:17Speaker 1: Uh, Shike, it's not Shakira, Shayika, Shaika Sika.
- 2:25Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 2:27Speaker 3: Gabrielle Zaley that's another Utah name. Ocean Ocean, I've heard.
- 2:34Speaker 3: I've heard that a few times. Ali and Gianna.
- 2:40Speaker 5: Not Gina.
- 2:40Speaker 4: Gene is still okay? Yeah, yeah, Now I don't. I don't.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Some of those names are too weird. They can go
- 2:48Speaker 1: away as far as I'm concerned. But but Charlie should
- 2:51Speaker 1: stay sure.
- 2:52Speaker 5: She's kind of hip, kind of wow, Charlie, there's a
- 2:58Speaker 5: frequence that's you, and they call it Bobby short.
- 3:02Speaker 3: I'll bet that's why Charlie is gone, because people of
- 3:07Speaker 3: that generation.
- 3:07Speaker 2: Were like, I'm not naming my kid after this bad perfume.
- 3:10Speaker 2: I think it's a cute name for.
- 3:12Speaker 4: Boys names that are going away. Okay, uhh kylian ay.
- 3:19Speaker 4: I bet well that it would be an e. Wouldn't
- 3:24Speaker 4: it killian a y l i A.
- 3:28Speaker 5: I bet that's Utah spelling of Yeah, that's my bet.
- 3:34Speaker 4: What is this name? This? This has got to be
- 3:37Speaker 4: a joke. Come on, a tharve f rv A t
- 3:42Speaker 4: h A r v. It's a it's a Hindu name.
- 3:48Speaker 5: Some of these are more than one of these I
- 3:51Speaker 5: think are Indian names.
- 3:53Speaker 4: Enoch is uh, which is a fine name.
- 3:56Speaker 2: No, we need more. Enix is the the Sparksley stack.
- 4:02Speaker 4: Clothes.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Yes, Crewe, he's the one who has shame.
- 4:08Speaker 4: Yeah, Crewe c r u e c r u e. Huh.
- 4:13Speaker 2: That's wine related.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Uh means dry dry wine or the band Whatley Crew Huxley.
- 4:23Speaker 5: There were not a lot of Huxley's. You can't tell
- 4:25Speaker 5: me there were many many Huxley's.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Well it's going away, m uh Solomon. So yeah, so
- 4:32Speaker 1: there there are some sort of foreign names in here.
- 4:34Speaker 1: That Camillo, Camillo.
- 4:39Speaker 4: Advict. That's names. Come on, name your kid advict. There
- 4:44Speaker 4: are five Advicts in my class.
- 4:47Speaker 1: It that's that's an okay name and it's good. Garrett
- 4:54Speaker 1: Jaxton Jackson.
- 4:55Speaker 4: That's another Utah name here.
- 4:59Speaker 1: This is a a foreign name. Ave A V y
- 5:03Speaker 1: A A N I think is the way you would
- 5:05Speaker 1: say it.
- 5:06Speaker 4: Kareem. There's a lot of Kareem. Well, it's karm.
- 5:10Speaker 3: I think k A r I m and Ishan.
- 5:19Speaker 4: And here's one that can go away.
- 5:20Speaker 1: This is the last one, Dax that could go away
- 5:24Speaker 1: because I don't care for Dax Shepherd at all, at all, no,
- 5:28Speaker 1: not in the I have no use for Dak Shepherd.
- 5:32Speaker 1: So those are the names of the thirty names that
- 5:35Speaker 1: they say it's your.
- 5:36Speaker 5: Job to have a baby and name them.
- 5:38Speaker 3: One of these names.
- 5:40Speaker 2: Let's see, uh Topanga like the canyon. Yeah. Jimmy John
- 5:47Speaker 2: says his cousin's names are Janssen, j A and t
- 5:52Speaker 2: z Paisley, Flint, Chance, Token, Crew.
- 5:58Speaker 4: And tag I don't leave. I don't believe you really
- 6:04Speaker 4: Flint Yeah, in like Arman Flint Token. Well, that's that's
- 6:11Speaker 4: a little yeah.
- 6:13Speaker 2: If I had a boy had named Jacob Caliber tab
- 6:18Speaker 2: I just love I just love biblical. Oh yeah, Jimmy
- 6:24Speaker 2: John says, that's true.
- 6:25Speaker 5: I if I had another boy, I would name him Sal.
- 6:31Speaker 2: You think after my grandpa? Oh?
- 6:33Speaker 5: I think Sal would?
- 6:34Speaker 4: They're not enough sALS short for Salvator.
- 6:37Speaker 5: My grandpa was a double sal. His name was Salveno
- 6:42Speaker 5: Salvator Barbary.
- 6:44Speaker 2: Wow, that's pretty Italian.
- 6:46Speaker 5: But I think Sal just s a l there Sally.
- 6:50Speaker 4: You could have just gone by SSB SB Sal.
- 6:56Speaker 2: My grandpa's name was Clawson.
- 6:59Speaker 4: That's a solid name.
- 7:00Speaker 2: Laws don't run in many Clawson's.
- 7:03Speaker 4: I had a grandpa Radcliffe.
- 7:05Speaker 5: That's a that's a that sounds nobility.
- 7:08Speaker 1: And he was married to Vondadivonda. Yeah, Clawson was married
- 7:15Speaker 1: to Zana.
- 7:19Speaker 4: I think you did meet.
- 7:21Speaker 5: We need to bring back the grandparent names, not this list, Bill,
- 7:25Speaker 5: just did I think we need grandparent names.
- 7:28Speaker 1: I mean some of the Radcliffe really is kind of
- 7:30Speaker 1: a and his middle his middle name was Duke Radcliffe.
- 7:34Speaker 3: Duke.
- 7:35Speaker 5: Isn't that should be a character in a book?
- 7:38Speaker 2: Is that a character from trading Places?
- 7:41Speaker 1: And so and my so, My my father's name was
- 7:44Speaker 1: Warren Duke Allred and everybody at his workout at Hill
- 7:49Speaker 1: Air Force Base. He was a lawyer out there. They
- 7:52Speaker 1: everybody called him duke. Nobody called him because that's a
- 7:55Speaker 1: cool name. Is Duke around that somebody would call our
- 7:59Speaker 1: house and says, Duke there, I need to talk to Duke.
- 8:02Speaker 4: Who your Duke? Your dad?
- 8:05Speaker 2: Oh Radcliffe Duke.
- 8:07Speaker 4: Wow.
- 8:09Speaker 2: Katie's grandmother's name was Cithera.
- 8:12Speaker 5: Cither And as as always, we will help you name
- 8:21Speaker 5: your child. Yes, people, people check in with us and
- 8:24Speaker 5: run names past us.
- 8:26Speaker 4: Yeah, we've got a list right here we can pick from.
- 8:28Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 8:28Speaker 1: No, yeah, run the names bias before you decide on them,
- 8:32Speaker 1: because you could have a disaster on you.
- 8:35Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't want to do that.
- 8:36Speaker 5: We've hoped you'd enjoyed another list with Radio from Hell
- 8:40Speaker 5: on X ninety six.