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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Sylvain Sylvain means of the forest, from the Roman god of woodlands and of field boundaries.Boy French #13,265 in US
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