20 old-fashioned baby names that are making a comeback
What’s old is new again, right? So it makes total sense that we’re loving these old-fashioned baby names that are starting to make their way back on the shortlists of soon-to-be parents.
Just as ’90s teens dared to wear flares like their parents did decades before, and Gen Z are wearing chokers and Levi’s like their parents, there has been somewhat of a retro revival in the baby naming stakes.
We aren’t talking about names that sound great on adults but weird on babies (though I am sure there are a few amongst them), we mean the monikers from a bygone era.
They are the names that at first don’t seem to belong to a baby born after 1960 but are so irresistible and classically sweet they’re ready to return.
Here’s 20 of our favourites:
4. Betty
Originally a diminutive of Elizabeth – along with other old-fashioned classics, Beth, Betsy, and Eliza – Betty is an English name meaning ‘God is my oath’.
As a stand-alone name, Betty has been overlooked for decades now, even though it had a brief moment in the sun when leggy blonde Betty Draper from Mad Men made this pretty-but-practical name feel glamorous and even a little dangerous. And let’s not even start on the star-power legendary Golden Girls actor Betty White has lent the name too …
And with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds recently naming their third daughter Betty, perhaps this name will start to find its rightful place up amongst the top names again?
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