Grandmother-chic: 1920s names ready to return
The hundred-year rule is the most reliable pattern in naming: a name peaks, rests for about a century, then returns. The 2020s are reviving names from the 1920s right on schedule.
These names peaked around a century ago and are already stirring. They come with built-in charm: soft sounds, family-album warmth, and the confidence of names that have been loved before.
Girls
- Hazelpeaked 1897 · #21 today
- Josephinepeaked 1916 · #53 today
- Clarapeaked 1885 · #63 today
- Vivianpeaked 1920 · #70 today
- Daisypeaked 1880 · #75 today
- Georgiapeaked 1882 · #99 today
- Estherpeaked 1896 · #119 today
- Elsiepeaked 1896 · #123 today
- Junepeaked 1925 · #150 today
- Ruthpeaked 1893 · #173 today
- Anniepeaked 1881 · #182 today
- Mabelpeaked 1891 · #201 today
- Verapeaked 1915 · #205 today
- Opheliapeaked 1882 · #264 today
- Rosiepeaked 1910 · #283 today
- Sylviapeaked 1937 · #300 today
- Elainepeaked 1938 · #304 today
- Francespeaked 1918 · #318 today
- Hattiepeaked 1880 · #334 today
- Helenapeaked 1881 · #363 today
- Matildapeaked 1880 · #364 today
- Florencepeaked 1890 · #391 today
- Dorothypeaked 1920 · #421 today
- Opalpeaked 1911 · #423 today
Boys
- Samuelpeaked 1880 · #18 today
- Thomaspeaked 1880 · #34 today
- Augustpeaked 1880 · #81 today
- Arthurpeaked 1880 · #87 today
- Leonpeaked 1926 · #138 today
- Charliepeaked 1881 · #145 today
- Felixpeaked 1884 · #175 today
- Warrenpeaked 1921 · #240 today
- Ellispeaked 1899 · #243 today
- Harveypeaked 1880 · #251 today
- Cyruspeaked 1880 · #268 today
- Ottopeaked 1880 · #277 today
- Archiepeaked 1890 · #301 today
- Forrestpeaked 1913 · #374 today
- Augustuspeaked 1880 · #407 today
- Conradpeaked 1931 · #417 today
- Lucianpeaked 1881 · #462 today
- Hezekiahpeaked 1891 · #485 today
- Calpeaked 1880 · #542 today
- Augustinepeaked 1906 · #545 today
- Fletcherpeaked 1892 · #545 today
- Louiepeaked 1901 · #596 today
- Aureliopeaked 1930 · #681 today
- Murphypeaked 1892 · #754 today
How this list is built: Names whose historical peak fell before 1940 and whose current trajectory is rising again, ordered by today's rank. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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