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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.

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343 names, rare — 25 to 99 a year, in the United States

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A decade page lists the names children were given in those years, in order, with the counts.

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