CLASSIC BABY NAMES POPULAR AGAIN
Jennifer has been replaced by Hazel. And Michael has been dumped by Elijah. Classic names that were popular well over 100 years ago are surging in popularity again. Talk about retro! MooseRoots.com did the hard work using 2014 data from the Social Security Administration and the United States Census Bureau and identified 30 classic names that have made a comeback. Specifically, the MooseRoots editors looked for names that: ranked in the top 200 before 1930, ranked outside of the top 200 between 1930 and 1980 and ranked in the top 200 again after 1980.
Thirty classic baby names that are making a comeback:
- Noah (Rank in 1880: 126. Rank in 2014: 1)
- Emma (Rank in 1880: 3. Rank in 2014: 1)
- Elijah (Rank in 1880: 135. Rank in 2014: 11)
- Charlotte (Rank in 1880: 91. Rank in 2014: 10)
- Oliver (Rank in 1880: 69. Rank in 2014: 32)
- Amelia (Rank in 1880: 96. Rank in 2014: 15)
- Levi (Rank in 1880: 118. Rank in 2014: 45)
- Evelyn (Rank in 1880: 133. Rank in 2014: 16)
- Eli (Rank in 1880: 177. Rank in 2014: 49)
- Lillian (Rank in 1880: 32. Rank in 2014: 25)
- Nathaniel (Rank in 1880: 200. Rank in 2014: 94)
- Sadie (Rank in 1880: 74. Rank in 2014: 46)
- Leo (Rank in 1880: 92. Rank in 2014: 97)
- Nora (Rank in 1880: 55. Rank in 2014: 49)
- Elias (Rank in 1880: 189. Rank in 2014: 103)
- Stella (Rank in 1880: 60. Rank in 2014: 66)
- Max (Rank in 1880: 225. Rank in 2014: 112)
- Eleanor (Rank in 1880: 126. Rank in 2014: 78)
- Harrison (Rank in 1880: 189. Rank in 2014: 127)
- Naomi (Rank in 1880: 275. Rank in 2014: 80)
- Ivan (Rank in 1880: 320. Rank in 2014: 132)
- Ruby (Rank in 1880: 149. Rank in 2014: 90)
- Timothy (Rank in 1880: 180. Rank in 2014: 135)
- Cora (Rank in 1880: 15. Rank in 2014: 103)
- Silas (Rank in 1880: 139. Rank in 2014: 137)
- Hazel (Rank in 1880: 352. Rank in 2014: 107)
- Joel (Rank in 1880: 262. Rank in 2014: 154)
- Josephine (Rank in 1880: 50. Rank in 2014: 147)
- Oscar (Rank in 1880: 29. Rank in 2014: 183)
- Rose (Rank in 1880: 30. Rank in 2014: 194)
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