Vintage Baby Names Making A Comeback
Names that were genuinely popular generations ago, faded, and are climbing the rankings again today.
Comparing 2015 2025Browse every rising name
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12,020#5 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8,748#15 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 3,847#87 | Up 76 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 13,400#2 | Up 3 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 796#391 | Up 372 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 7,649#12 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 13,355#4 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,318#21 | Up 10 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 12,699#4 | Up 2 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 14,939#3 | Steady | 2024 | |||
| 7,603#25 | Up 9 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 8,173#19 | Up 17 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 5,578#52 | Up 46 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 9,642#12 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 2,236#123 | Up 110 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 7,546#13 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,583#138 | Up 58 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 1,522#201 | Up 227 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 4,287#77 | Up 13 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 8,837#13 | Up 41 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 6,072#44 | Up 15 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 8,126#20 | Up 24 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 409#691 | Up 318 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 3,729#61 | Up 66 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,065#117 | Up 35 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,088#283 | Up 188 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 5,117#39 | Up 18 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 4,639#71 | Up 29 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,021#82 | Up 53 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 740#423 | Up 226 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 4,251#49 | Up 88 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 3,958#81 | Up 74 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 5,165#60 | Up 49 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,129#301 | Up 167 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 570#528 | Up 1,029 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 4,204#78 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 3,353#73 | Up 117 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 2,260#120 | Up 254 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,241#277 | Up 112 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 469#621 | Up 404 rank positions in five years | 1915 | |||
| 562#539 | Up 575 rank positions in five years | 1924 | |||
| 1,768#199 | Up 131 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 301#823 | Up 511 rank positions in five years | 1949 | |||
| 516#577 | Up 305 rank positions in five years | 1920 | |||
| 1,183#264 | Up 127 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 422#670 | Up 331 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 358#757 | Up 708 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 358#735 | Up 83 rank positions in five years | 2021 |
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How this list is built
A name qualifies if it reached the top 300 at some point on or before 1985, is inside the top 1,000 today, and has improved its rank over the last ten years. The ten-year window matters: a revival plays out over a generation, so the five-year view used elsewhere on the site is too short to see one.
Ranks come from U.S. births, counted separately for girls and boys. A name used fewer than 5 times in a year isn’t published for that year, so “unranked” means uncommon, not unused.