Vintage Baby Names
17 vintage baby names. Median rank #22 in the United States for 2024, up 8 places since 2020.
Each line is the median rank of the names in this collection that appear on that place’s list in every complete year shown, inside the top 1,000.
Girls 13 names
| United States 2024 | Name | Meaning | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #3 | Amelia | Work, industrious | ↑3 |
| #8 | Evelyn | Wished-for child | ↑1 |
| #14 | Eleanor | Shining light | ↑8 |
| #15 | Violet | Purple; violet flower | ↑22 |
| #19 | Hazel | Hazel tree; eye color | ↑12 |
| #21 | Ellie | Shining one; short for Eleanor/Elizabeth | ↑8 |
| #22 | Nora | Honor; short for Eleanor/Honora | ↑8 |
| #28 | Penelope | Weaver (Odysseus's wife) | ↓3 |
| #30 | Ella | Fairy maiden; short for Eleanor-type names | ↓15 |
| #49 | Stella | Star | ↓7 |
| #56 | Josephine | God will add (fem. of Joseph) | ↑31 |
| #62 | Alice | Noble, of noble kind | ↑14 |
| #63 | Ruby | Ruby gemstone | ↑11 |
Boys 4 names
| United States 2024 | Name | Meaning | Since 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 | Theodore | Gift of God | ↑19 |
| #6 | Henry | Estate ruler | ↑3 |
| #80 | Theo | Gift of God (short for Theodore) | ↑92 |
| #105 | Arthur | Traditionally linked to "bear" | ↑58 |
How this collection is built
The names are grouped by hand; every rank beside them is an official birth registration count, read from the 2024 the United States list. A name that ranks for both girls and boys appears in both tables with its own rank in each — those two positions are often far apart, and that gap is the interesting part.
See the same names year by year in the full rankings.
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