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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Mimi Mimi is a girl's name that began as a pet form of Maria and Miriam, used especially in French and Italian.Girl French, Italian, Hebrew #7,505 in US
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Elspeth Elspeth is a Scottish girl's name meaning "God is my oath."Girl Scottish, Hebrew #7,686 in US
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