100 vintage baby names that are about to come back around

Old fashioned baby names are having a revival, especially those from the 1920s. Here are 100 vintage names to provide you with some inspiration.

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Updated March 17, 2022

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Vintage baby names are having a moment right now, and it’s not hard to see why. Choosing a baby name can be a tricky task on top of all the other things you have to think about as impending parents, like packing a hospital bag or getting the nursery organized. Finding something that’s both timeless enough to take your newborn through to adulthood and unique enough to set them apart from all the other children in their class is a fine balance to strike.

That’s why many parents are turning to old fashioned names for inspiration. Rather than zoning in on the baby names that are topping the charts now, there’s a growing trend to take a look at what was popular this time last century and beyond.

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There are plenty of vintage names that have already had their resurgence — the likes of Ava, Arthur, Evelyn, and Charles, for example, have risen back to the top of US and UK baby name lists over the past few years and show no signs of budging. But there are plenty of other old fashioned names that haven’t been dug out of the archives just yet, so we’re about to uncover some of them.

We combed through historical data — the Social Security Administration’s top 500 baby names in the US in 1920 and the Office for National Statistics’ top 100 baby names in the UK in 1924 — to find the names that were popular in the 1920s but that you rarely see now, around 100 years later. If you’re hoping to find a unique, vintage name for your baby boy or baby girl before everybody else discovers it, perhaps some of these suggestions might be just what you’re looking for .…

Vintage baby girl names from the 1920s

Agnes
Annie
Alma
Beatrice
Bertha
Bessie
Betty
Beulah
Bridget
Carrie
Clara
Constance
Daphne
Dora
Dorothy
Edith
Edna
Ellen
Elsie
Enid
Ethel
Freda
Geneva
Genevieve
Henrietta
Ida
Iris
Joan
Josephine
Leona
Lillian
Lucille
Mabel
Mae
Martha
Minnie
Nellie
Nora
Norma
Olive
Opal
Pearl
Peggy
Ruth
Sylvia
Virginia
Vera
Viola
Vivian
Winifred

Vintage baby boy names from the 1920s

Albert
Alfred
Allen
Alvin
Arnold
Bernard
Cecil
Chester
Clarence
Clifford
Clyde
Cyril
Douglas
Edgar
Edmund
Edwin
Elmer
Ernest
Eugene
Everett
Francis
Franklin
Gilbert
Gordon
Harold
Herbert
Herman
Horace
Howard
Hubert
Ivan
Ivor
Kenneth
Lawrence
Leonard
Lester
Louis
Maurice
Percy
Ralph
Roland
Sidney
Stanley
Vernon
Victor
Vincent
Walter
Wallace
Wilbur
Wilfred

Old fashioned baby names: The takeaway

None of the names listed above feature highly in the US and the UK’s most up-to-date “popular baby names” lists. This shows that there are a whole host of vintage baby names that haven’t been used widely for decades, but as the trend for old fashioned baby names continues, they may just be on the cusp of coming back again. So … are there any in there that could be perfect for your baby? If not, perhaps it’s worth taking a look through these lists of one-syllable baby names for boys, gender-neutral baby names, or uncommon baby names for girls.