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Vintage Baby Names

Vintage baby names are among the most fashionable today, for girls as well as boys. Along with vintage names such as Olivia and Emma, Noah and Elijah leading the popularity list, the US Top 100 includes such vintage names for girls as Alice, Grace, and Penelope, and vintage boy names Henry, Julian, and Wyatt.

Unique retro names gaining visibility include such new old choices as Ophelia and Posey for girls, Cassian and Linus for boys.

Choosing a vintage name can give you the best of all worlds, drawing on classic inspiration with modern style. Vintage baby names are found on the popularity lists of a hundred years ago and then often faded from sight, only to be revived for the new generation of babies. The best antique names are inspired by literary, biblical and royal sources.

Here, our master list of the vintage baby names most stylish today. You might also want to check out our curated lists of Vintage Girl Names and Vintage Boy Names.

Celeste

Meaning: heavenly

Origin:Latin
512
Selena

Meaning: moon goddess

Origin:Latinized variation of Greek Selene
360
Tabitha

Meaning: gazelle

Origin:Aramaic
401
Lillian

Meaning: lily; pledged to God

Origin:English from Latin
110
Blanche

Meaning: white

Origin:French
239
Hope Hope is an English name and the meaning of H...
Origin:Virtue name
279
Faith unique, to advise, alone, nun, solitary
Origin:Virtue name
295
Lena The Hebrew name Lena is a shorter version of...
Origin:English, Scottish, Dutch, German, and Scandinavian, diminutive of various names ending in lena
162
Ramona

Meaning: wise protector

Origin:Spanish, feminine variation of Ramon
309
Eulalia

Meaning: sweetly speaking

Origin:Greek
460
Felicity

Meaning: good fortune, happy

Origin:Latin
168
Viola

Meaning: violet

Origin:Latin
340
Mercy

Meaning: compassion

Origin:English word name
689
Atticus

Meaning: from Attica

Origin:Latin
5
Cassius

Meaning: hollow

Origin:Latin
11
Cyrus

Meaning: sun

Origin:Persian
19
Magnus

Meaning: greatest

Origin:Scandinavian from Latin
34
Aurelius

Meaning: the golden one

Origin:Latin
43
Lucius

Meaning: light

Origin:Latin
57
Caius

Meaning: rejoice

Origin:Latin
73