Vintage Names Making a Comeback
29 revived classic baby names. Median rank #53 in Canada for 2024, up 11 places since 2020.
Each line is the median rank of the names in this collection that appear on that place’s list in every complete year shown, inside the top 1,000.
Girls 23 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Olivia | Olive tree | #1 | #1 | #1 |
| Charlotte | Free woman (fem. of Charles) | #2 ↑1 | #25 ↓5 | #4 |
| Emma | Whole, universal | #3 ↓1 | #85 ↓25 | #2 |
| Amelia | Work, industrious | #4 | #3 ↓1 | #3 ↑3 |
| Florence | Flourishing, blooming | #28 ↑13 | #5 ↑9 | #435 ↑328 |
| Sophia | Wisdom | #5 | #13 ↓3 | #6 ↓1 |
| Isabella | God is my oath | #24 ↑6 | #10 ↓2 | #7 |
| Chloe | Blooming, verdant | #8 ↓2 | #89 ↓43 | #20 ↑6 |
| Sophie | Wisdom (form of Sophia) | #19 ↓4 | #63 ↓37 | #60 ↑15 |
| Clara | Clear, bright | #20 ↑5 | #77 ↑13 | #78 ↑25 |
| Lucy | Light | #52 ↑12 | — | #34 ↑16 |
| Beatrice | She who brings happiness | #53 ↑4 | — | #579 ↓27 |
| Eloise | Healthy, wide | #57 ↑33 | #83 new | #64 ↑73 |
| Adeline | Noble | #86 ↑45 | — | #58 ↑42 |
| Audrey | Noble strength | #59 ↓5 | — | #82 ↓22 |
| Vivian | Alive, lively | #237 ↑20 | — | #77 ↑24 |
| Ophelia | Help | #132 ↑9 | #81 new | #261 ↑130 |
| Norah | Honor (short form of Honora) | #94 ↓10 | — | #223 ↓71 |
| Cora | Maiden | #429 ↓78 | — | #102 ↓14 |
| Adele | Noble | #138 ↓26 | — | #798 ↓7 |
| Estelle | Star | #139 ↑58 | — | #636 ↑162 |
| Annabelle | Loving, beautiful | #187 ↓79 | — | #349 ↓128 |
| August | Great, magnificent | — | — | #910 ↓55 |
Boys 7 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver | Olive tree | #6 | #6 ↓5 | #3 |
| Lucas | Light-bringing (form of Luke) | #7 | #32 ↓7 | #9 ↓1 |
| Oscar | Deer lover | #153 ↓10 | #8 ↓1 | #217 ↓3 |
| Miles | Soldier; merciful | #38 ↑48 | — | #37 ↑22 |
| Myles | Soldier; merciful | #60 ↑27 | #67 ↑33 | #99 ↑25 |
| Finn | Fair, white | #165 ↓34 | #74 ↓1 | #198 ↓20 |
| August | Great, magnificent | #105 ↑149 | — | #88 ↑67 |
How this collection is built
The names are grouped by hand; every rank beside them is an official birth registration count, read from each place’s most recent complete list. A name that ranks for both girls and boys appears under both tabs with its own rank in each — those two positions are often far apart, and that gap is the interesting part.
See the same names year by year in the full rankings.
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