Reviving Girl Names

Names with a clear peak long ago and a clear climb now — the shape that proves the hundred-year rule rather than merely illustrating it.

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429 names, most popular first in the United States

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Mae Mae is a girl's name in France, generally read as a form of Mae or as a feminine of the Breton Mahé.
French #500 in US
Beatrice Beatrice is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "she who brings happiness."
Latin #508 in US
Estella Estella means star, and Dickens chose the name deliberately — Great Expectations gives it to a girl raised to be beautiful and unreachable, which is what a star is.
Spanish #510 in US
Faye Faye is a girl's name of Old French origin meaning "fairy," from a word that traces back to the Fates of Roman religion.
English #514 in US
Louise Louise is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "famous warrior," the French feminine form of Louis.
French #515 in US
Lottie Lottie is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "free man."
Germanic #527 in US
Cecelia Cecelia means blind, and the saint who carries it became the patron of music through what looks like a misreading — a line in her acta about music playing at her wedding was later taken to mean she made it.
Latin #530 in US
Nellie Nellie is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "shining light."
Greek #533 in US
Lenora Peaked in 1924 · 37,719 births since 1880
#540 in US
Margo Margo is a girl's name meaning "pearl."
French, Greek #559 in US
Mavis Mavis is a girl's name from the old word for the song thrush, from French mauvis.
French, English #560 in US
Della Della has no single parent — it shortens Adela, Delia and Adelaide alike, and it is reviving, at 563rd in the United States and 1,010th in Scotland.
English #563 in US
Cleo Cleo is a name of Greek origin meaning "glory" or "fame."
Greek #577 in US
Loretta Loretta comes from an Italian shrine, not from the laurel — Loreto is the town where the Holy House of Nazareth was said to have been carried by angels.
Italian #606 in US
Flora Flora is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "flower," the Roman goddess whose festival was among the least decorous in the calendar.
Latin #607 in US
Goldie Peaked in 1915 · 39,631 births since 1880
#623 in US
Winona Peaked in 2025 · 13,643 births since 1880
#627 in US
Eileen Eileen is a girl's name anglicizing the Irish Eibhlín, and its meaning is unsettled — it may render Helen, or Evelyn, or a native Irish name.
Irish #656 in US
Myra Myra was invented by a poet — Fulke Greville coined it around 1580, probably by rearranging Mary, and every later meaning attached to it was supplied after the fact.
English #662 in US
Jolene Peaked in 1974 · 38,579 births since 1918
#668 in US
Birdie Birdie is a girl's name meaning "little bird," formed from the English word bird with the affectionate ending -ie.
English #671 in US
Georgina Peaked in 2024 · 40,619 births since 1880
Dutch #689 in US
Lara Lara is a girl's name of Russian origin, a short form of Larisa, and its meaning is unresolved — most often given as "citadel," after the Greek city of Larissa.
Russian #691 in US
Billie Billie is a name of Germanic origin meaning "resolute protector."
Germanic #693 in US
Ila Peaked in 1925 · 25,814 births since 1880
Indian #721 in US
Gwen Peaked in 1959 · 36,352 births since 1890
#725 in US
Ramona Ramona means protecting counsel, and a novel made it — Helen Hunt Jackson wrote Ramona in 1884 to expose the treatment of Native Californians, and readers took the romance and ignored the argument.
Spanish #733 in US
Laurel Laurel names the plant directly, which sets it apart from Lora and Loren on this site — those reach the laurel through a Roman town, while this one is simply the tree.
English #735 in US
Penny Penny is a girl's name of Greek origin, a diminutive of Penelope, whose own name is bound up with a duck.
English #740 in US
Lettie Peaked in 2025 · 11,586 births since 1880
#757 in US
Pearl Pearl is a girl's name taken from the gem, and it charts in all seven markets.
English #777 in US
Fallon Peaked in 1982 · 14,440 births since 1972
#778 in US
Ruthie Peaked in 1927 · 22,759 births since 1880
#780 in US
Luella Peaked in 1918 · 33,623 births since 1880
#781 in US
Elouise Peaked in 2025 · 12,957 births since 1889
#788 in US
Darcy Darcy is a name of Norman French origin meaning "from Arcy," a place in Normandy.
French #858 in US
Odette Odette is a girl's name meaning wealth, a French diminutive of Oda — and it is the white swan in Swan Lake, opposite her black double Odile, both traditionally danced by the same ballerina.
French #881 in US
Winifred Winifred is two names that English collapsed into one — the Welsh Gwenfrewi and the Anglo-Saxon Winfrid, unrelated in every element, and birth records mark the result reviving with England setting its peak this year.
Welsh #922 in US
Elisabeth Elisabeth is a girl's name meaning God is my oath, and the s-spelling is the older one — it follows the Greek and German, while the English z is a later change.
Hebrew #926 in US
Etta Etta is a girl's name of Germanic origin meaning "home ruler."
Germanic #931 in US
Darla Darla is a girl's name coined in twentieth-century America from the word darling.
English #942 in US
Marcella Marcella means dedicated to Mars, and it is reviving — 948th in the United States, 1,386th in England and Wales, 1,507th in Canada and 6,569th in France, from a peak more than a century old.
Latin #948 in US
Mazie Peaked in 2023 · 10,378 births since 1880
#965 in US
Simone Simone is a girl's name meaning he has heard, the French feminine of Simon.
French #997 in US
Joelle Joelle is the only rising name in this group, and one of very few at this volume anywhere on record — it peaked in 2017, while almost everything of comparable size peaked between 1950 and 1995.
French #1,010 in US
Belle Peaked in 1915 · 23,442 births since 1880
#1,015 in US
Agnes Agnes is a girl's name from the Greek for pure, and the reason its saint is shown with a lamb is a Latin pun — agnus, lamb, sounds like the Greek hagnos but is a completely different word.
Greek #1,016 in US
Rosalyn Peaked in 1955 · 24,236 births since 1899
#1,047 in US

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