Old-fashioned baby names are roaring back into fashion — and experts say they know why

NY Post ^ | May 14, 2025 | Staff

[Red Badger]

What???

No more 'Shanequa' or 'Quantvarious'?................

[Antoninus]

We were early adopters of this trend. We’ve got a Helen and a Bernadette, though in Catholic homeschooling circles, those names are common enough.

[nwrep]

John and Jane will always reign.

[Vermont Lt]

“ Hayes, Lachlan, Palmer, Soren, Sterling and Theodore,….”

I knew a Teddy growing up. But those other names are not what I would think of as”traditional.”

John, James, Robert, Richard, Elizabeth, Susan, Mary, William….those are what I would call traditional “American” names.

But, at least I can pronounce the ones they are using. And that is a plus. And…in the end they will declare themselves “BIG Balz” at some point anyway.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL! Quantvarious. ROTFL.

[ComputerGuy]

Both my wife and I have a Shadrack among our ancestors. Not the same one, though.

[BradyLS]

Ulysses, Millard, Grover, Dwight, and Abraham are proven winners, too.

[twister881]

*Hillary” ranked 1,278. Surprised it’s that high.

[Magnum44]

[cuz1961]

My best friends 2 newest are Noah and Adam.

[HYPOCRACY]

Hayes, Lachlan, Palmer, Soren, Sterling, Silas

Your kid will either become a golfer or a serial killer or both.

[mairdie]

Mary, sister of Robert, waving!

But Bob wrecked the trend. Instead of an east coast family surname turned into middle name, he gave all his kids names starting with the same letter as his wife’s name. Then he couldn’t remember them apart and started calling the kids by birth order number.

[Sirius Lee]

Thaddeus or the list is incomplete.

[bert]

How ‘bout Septavarious

[Dan in Wichita]

From reports posted here on FR, church attendance has halted its decline and is now showing signs of increasing. On top of that, adults under 30 are clearly becoming more politically conservative.

After decades of aggressively advancing leftism/secularism, the pendulum is starting to swing in the opposite direction.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Moon Unit Zappa! ;)

[HombreSecreto]

Or they just go off the news:

Hantavirus

[mware]

We have a Stuckley in our lineage. 1640, first to come over from the old country.

[epluribus_2]

A lot of those trad names are heard south of Mason/Dixon.

Bet they have more Kids as well.

[Vermont Lt]

I had an uncle with that name. It was spelled in Polish. Good guy.

It was on our list for Boys for our firstborn. But she didn’t look like a Teddy. LOL.