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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Paddy Paddy is a unisex name of Latin origin, the familiar form of Pádraig, meaning "nobleman."Unisex Irish 2,323 births
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