Posted on 05/15/2025 5:06:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
In recent years, out-there, creative or trendy baby names were all the rage — now it seems like the classic, old-fashioned ones are popular again.
According to Jennifer Moss, founder and CEO of BabyNames.com and baby-name consultant Taylor A. Humphrey, grandma-like names such as Eleanor, Eloise, Elodie, Alma, Margaret, Nora and Bennett, are “super trendy” for girls this year, originally reported by Yahoo! Life.
“On the boys’ side, we’re seeing the ‘trad name,’ or old-fashioned names, stick — like Theodore, Oliver, Owen, Silas and Jasper,” Colleen Slagen, author of the forthcoming book “Naming Bebe,” also told the outlet.
“…I’m hearing Hayes, Lachlan, Palmer, Soren, Sterling and Theodore,” added Humphrey.
“These names feel grounded, elegant and sturdy; they offer just the right mix of vintage soul and modern edge.”
Why are these dated names gaining traction again?
“I think vintage names evoke a sense of nostalgia. I get a lot of clients who pull out their family tree, looking to grandparents and great-grandparents for name inspiration,” Slagen said.
“…Nursing homes and graveyards would be great sources of name inspiration.”
And according to Sophie Kihm, editor-in-chief of Nameberry, a baby naming website, today’s parents are leaning more towards simpler names for their babies.
”More families in the US come from mixed cultural backgrounds, and I hear parents commonly request that they want their child to travel and have a relatively easy-to-understand name,” she said.
In regards to which names are getting the baby bump, at least for a while — ones with “aden” in it, like Braden or Jayden, according to the experts.
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There wa actually a girl here who was named, Clitonia.
Can you believe it?
“ Shanequa’ or ‘Quantvarious”
…it just so happens that my wife and I considered those for our daughters. 🤣
Her parents are stupid..............
My Grandmother’s name was Gertrude. Where are all the Gertrudes?
Dweezil
>>There wa actually a girl here who was named, Clitonia.<<
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And her brother Testesius?
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https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names2010s.html
...The following table shows the 200 most popular given names for male and female babies born during the 2010s. For each rank and sex, the table shows the name and the number of occurrences of that name. The 200 most popular names were taken from a universe that includes 20,105,818 male births and 19,198,227 female births...
Noah, Liam, Jacob, William, Mason
Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Isabella, Ava
What about a traditional African name, like OJ?
De’Quan
In Europe.....................
Orang’jlo. Deshaun. DeKnese, DeNefew. Kwame, Iretomiwa, they are solid and traditional. 🙄
Those are NOT (the op) “traditional” American names, your list is Vermont. I would add Joseph, David, Charles, Kathleen, Catherine, Anne. Good Christian names.
What about names like Elmer and Zelda?
Ha! It’s the kind of thing that happens when a whole group has NO grasp of language.
That’s partly cultural and partly a failure of ‘education’ in the US. in any case, it’s certainly nothing to be proud of
Splitting hairs…but i guess if it makes you feel good, thats fine.
Wife’s BFF is now a retired nurse, worked in the hospital nursery for decades. She has seen it all on baby names, which we’ve heard about through the years.
So Yes, I can believe it.
I could have named my daughter after my Maternal Grandmother, Bronislavnia, but instead I named her after my Paternal Great Grandmother, Emily.
“ Your kid will either become a golfer or a serial killer or both.”
Aren’t all golfers both?
Whacking a little white ball shows some type of deep seated anger
Long as it is not MO-HAM-HEAD or Moon Unit 1 or Moon Unit 2.
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