Victorian names ready for a second century
The names of high collars and handwritten letters are exactly old enough to be new again — the hundred-year cycle has fully lapped them.
Every name here peaked in the Victorian era and appears in current records, ranked by today's use.
Girls
- Elizabethpeaked 1887 · #17 today
- Hazelpeaked 1897 · #21 today
- Gracepeaked 1883 · #38 today
- Lillianpeaked 1898 · #57 today
- Clarapeaked 1885 · #63 today
- Alicepeaked 1880 · #65 today
- Daisypeaked 1880 · #75 today
- Lydiapeaked 1883 · #92 today
- Georgiapeaked 1882 · #99 today
- Annapeaked 1880 · #107 today
- Margaretpeaked 1891 · #112 today
- Corapeaked 1880 · #113 today
- Elizapeaked 1880 · #115 today
- Estherpeaked 1896 · #119 today
- Elsiepeaked 1896 · #123 today
- Marypeaked 1880 · #125 today
- Juliapeaked 1880 · #131 today
- Evapeaked 1889 · #134 today
- Ruthpeaked 1893 · #173 today
- Calliepeaked 1880 · #175 today
- Anniepeaked 1881 · #182 today
- Olivepeaked 1893 · #197 today
- Mabelpeaked 1891 · #201 today
- Adapeaked 1880 · #219 today
Boys
- Williampeaked 1880 · #9 today
- Samuelpeaked 1880 · #18 today
- Johnpeaked 1880 · #23 today
- Thomaspeaked 1880 · #34 today
- Charlespeaked 1880 · #48 today
- Augustpeaked 1880 · #81 today
- Arthurpeaked 1880 · #87 today
- Harrisonpeaked 1888 · #116 today
- Georgepeaked 1881 · #126 today
- Charliepeaked 1881 · #145 today
- Felixpeaked 1884 · #175 today
- Jessepeaked 1882 · #184 today
- Peterpeaked 1880 · #187 today
- Oscarpeaked 1883 · #223 today
- Simonpeaked 1886 · #230 today
- Ellispeaked 1899 · #243 today
- Louispeaked 1882 · #249 today
- Harveypeaked 1880 · #251 today
- Cyruspeaked 1880 · #268 today
- Ottopeaked 1880 · #277 today
- Archiepeaked 1890 · #301 today
- Martinpeaked 1880 · #335 today
- Marshallpeaked 1886 · #340 today
- Sterlingpeaked 1895 · #345 today
How this list is built: Names whose all-time peak fell before 1900 and which are currently ranked, ordered by today's rank. Source: US Social Security birth records, refreshed yearly.
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