Old fashioned girl names and old fashioned boy names (and unisex) have made a comeback. Here are some of the more unique old fashioned names coming back in.
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Baby name trends roll in cycles, like many things. And one of the most popular trends to have emerged in recent years is the recycling of old fashioned names. As Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have recently demonstrated, naming their newborn daughter Lilibet after the childhood nickname of 95-year-old Queen Elizabeth, there s a lovely sentiment in choosing an old fashioned name for a modern day baby.
If you take a look at the Office for National Statistics most up-to-date data on baby names (from all births that took place in the year 2019), it proves just how much the vintage baby naming trend has taken hold over the last few years. Because there are two names that have recently re-entered the ‘most popular’ list for the first time in almost 100 years.