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:
6. Eleanor
Soft and pretty, Eleanor originally comes from ‘Alienor’, the French form of the Greek ‘Helenē’, meaning ‘light, torch, bright’.
Brought to England from France by Eleanor of Aquitaine in the 12th century, this girl’s name has a pretty serious medieval pedigree.
In recent history, its popularity peaked in the early part of the 20th century, so we think it’s time to unearth this gem again. And the fact that Eleanor can be shortened to the delightful Nell can only be a good thing.
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