Vintage Names

Names that were everywhere a century ago and then were not. The reliable pattern is the hundred-year rule: a name usually has to feel like a great-grandparent rather than a grandparent before it can come back, because the generation in between still hears it as merely old.

691 names, very rare — fewer than 25 babies a year, in United States

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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.

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