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Cool Vintage Baby Names

Vintage baby names are very cool these days....and cool vintage names are very our website. So does that mean that all vintage baby names are cool names? Not exactly. Elmer and Eunice are certainly vintage, but they don’t possess that cool-factor. We’ll take Emmett and Elsie instead.

Along with Emmett and Elsie, other cool vintage baby names in the US Top 500 include Ada, Calvin, Georgia, Hazel, Otto, Roman, Ruby, and Walter. More unique vintage names for babies that fall outside of the popularity charts include Barnaby, Tess, Leopold, and Winifred.

Coolness can be fleeting – maybe one day Elmer and Eunice will become fashionable again. Here are some of the coolest vintage names for babies – at least by popular agreement – right now.

Eloise

Meaning: healthy; wide

Origin:French and English variation of Heloise
5
Ruby

Meaning: deep red precious stone

Origin:Latin
48
Edie

Meaning: prosperous in war

Origin:English, diminutive of Edith
312
Persephone

Meaning: bringer of destruction

Origin:Greek
83
Beatrix

Meaning: she who brings happiness; blessed

Origin:Latin
112
Estelle

Meaning: star

Origin:French
189
Elsie

Meaning: pledged to God

Origin:Diminutive of Elizabeth via its Scottish variation, Elspeth
67
Flora

Meaning: flower

Origin:Latin
69
Florence

Meaning: flourishing, prosperous

Origin: Latin
74
Clover

Meaning: key

Origin:Flower name, from Old English
93
Ada

Meaning: noble, nobility, or island

Origin:German or Turkish
50
Dorothea

Meaning: gift of God

Origin:Greek
325
Hazel

Meaning: the hazelnut tree

Origin:English
61
Lydia

Meaning: woman from Lydia

Origin:Greek
66
August

Meaning: great, magnificent

Origin:German form of Latin Augustus
16
Mae

Meaning: bitter or pearl

Origin:Diminutive of Mary or Margaret
30
Willa

Meaning: resolute protection

Origin:Feminine variation of William
57
Cora

Meaning: maiden

Origin:Greek
16
Winifred

Meaning: blessed peacemaking

Origin:Welsh
161
Ida

Meaning: industrious one

Origin:German
166