Vintage Baby Names Coming Back in Style

What’s in a name? That question, once posed by William Shakespeare in “Romeo and Juliet,” is now being answered every day by parents ushering in (on average) one baby every 8 seconds in the U.S.

These days, vintage names are coming back strong. Stacker consulted the Social Security Administration’s Historical Baby Names database to compile a list of 100 vintage baby names now regaining popularity.

2019 rank: #256 (1,404 babies born) – Best historical decade: 1880s (Rank: #162, 84 babies born per year) The name Simon, which means “the listener,” is prominent in the Bible and made a comeback in the early 2000s after its mid-1900s popularity spike.

Simon

2019 rank: #225 (1,379 babies born) – Best historical decade: 1880s (Rank: #178, 108 babies born per year) Television host Al Roker and actors Vincent D’Onofrio and Greta Scacchi all chose the Arabic name Leila (meaning “night”) for their daughters.

Leila

Felix

2019 rank: #222 (1,680 babies born) – Best historical decade: 1880s (Rank: #158, 86 babies born per year) Felix, which means “fortunate,” is perhaps best-associated with the 1919 cartoon cat who launched to fame in the animated television show in the 1950s.

2019 rank: #180 (1,622 babies born) – Best historical decade: 1880s (Rank: #146, 152 babies born per year) Short for Calista and derived from the Greek word for “beautiful,” (spelled Kallista), Callie came was popularized by screenwriter Callie Khouri, who wrote “Thelma and Louise.”

Callie

2019 rank: #211 (1,819 babies born) – Best historical decade: 1880s (Rank: #22, 709 babies born per year) Charlie, meaning “free man,” is the diminutive of Charles, a name associated with British royalty.

Charlie

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