Old-fashioned girl names are feeling fresher than ever. Parents in search of cool, traditional names for their daughters are looking further afield, resurrecting recently-fusty choices such as Florence and Mabel.
But if a name is widely embraced by the mainstream, it may become so associated with babies that it loses its status as an old-fashioned name, as is happening with vintage girl names such as Eleanor and Evelyn.
Along with Mabel and Eleanor, other old-fashioned names for girls in the US Top 1000 include Iris, Josephine, Margot, Millie, and Pearl. Vintage nature names for girls pack two trends into one. In this group we include Hazel, Ivy, Olive, Ruby, and Violet.
The next wave of old-fashioned girl names is going to be clunkier. Names with strong D sounds will rise, such as Dorothea, Ida, Isadora, Lucinda, and Winifred. There’s also going to be a comeback of vintage nicknames: Sally, Betty, Penny, Nellie, Bonnie, and Goldie.
Here are our picks of the best Old-Fashioned girl names, ordered by their current popularity on Nameberry.
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