Vintage names making a comeback
Names move in long, slow circles. A name that feels dusty to one generation sounds fresh again to their grandchildren — the family connection is far enough away to feel like a discovery rather than a hand-me-down.
Every name below once had its moment, faded for at least twenty years, and is now climbing the charts again. If you pick one today, you're early on the wave: familiar to everyone, common in no preschool yet.
Girls
- Hazel#21 today · back from 1897
- Josephine#53 today · back from 1916
- Clara#63 today · back from 1885
- Vivian#70 today · back from 1920
- Daisy#75 today · back from 1880
- Madeline#81 today · back from 1998
- Maria#87 today · back from 1975
- Georgia#99 today · back from 1882
- Esther#119 today · back from 1896
- Elsie#123 today · back from 1896
- June#150 today · back from 1925
- Ruth#173 today · back from 1893
- Annie#182 today · back from 1881
- Mabel#201 today · back from 1891
- Vera#205 today · back from 1915
- Jane#221 today · back from 1946
- Kiara#229 today · back from 1999
- Delaney#242 today · back from 2004
- Rosemary#251 today · back from 1946
- Ophelia#264 today · back from 1882
- Nayeli#270 today · back from 2001
- Rosie#283 today · back from 1910
- Sylvia#300 today · back from 1937
- Elaine#304 today · back from 1938
Boys
- Samuel#18 today · back from 1880
- Thomas#34 today · back from 1880
- August#81 today · back from 1880
- Arthur#87 today · back from 1880
- Dean#125 today · back from 1967
- Leon#138 today · back from 1926
- Dawson#143 today · back from 1999
- Charlie#145 today · back from 1881
- Felix#175 today · back from 1884
- Riley#207 today · back from 2002
- Warren#240 today · back from 1921
- Ellis#243 today · back from 1899
- Cade#248 today · back from 2001
- Harvey#251 today · back from 1880
- Cyrus#268 today · back from 1880
- Otto#277 today · back from 1880
- Archie#301 today · back from 1890
- Casey#320 today · back from 1987
- Forrest#374 today · back from 1913
- Augustus#407 today · back from 1880
- Conrad#417 today · back from 1931
- Jalen#442 today · back from 2000
- Reece#460 today · back from 2001
- Lucian#462 today · back from 1881
How this list is built: Names whose current rank is rising after a 20+ year gap since their historical peak, ordered by today's popularity. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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