Vintage Baby Names
65 vintage baby names. Median rank #89 in Canada for 2024, up 1 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 52 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amelia | Work, industrious | #4 | #3 ↓1 | #3 ↑3 |
| Florence | Flourishing, blooming | #28 ↑13 | #5 ↑9 | #435 ↑328 |
| Evelyn | Wished-for child | #15 ↑1 | #12 ↑9 | #8 ↑1 |
| Alice | Noble, of noble kind | #12 ↓3 | #52 ↓25 | #62 ↑14 |
| Eleanor | Shining light | #31 ↑22 | #56 ↓3 | #14 ↑8 |
| Nora | Honor; short for Eleanor/Honora | #14 ↑15 | #75 new | #22 ↑8 |
| Violet | Purple; violet flower | #17 ↑17 | #37 ↑11 | #15 ↑22 |
| Daisy | Day's eye; the flower | #108 ↑153 | #18 ↑6 | #76 ↑67 |
| Ellie | Shining one; short for Eleanor/Elizabeth | #18 ↑4 | — | #21 ↑8 |
| Hazel | Hazel tree; eye color | #27 ↑18 | #71 new | #19 ↑12 |
| Clara | Clear, bright | #20 ↑5 | #77 ↑13 | #78 ↑25 |
| Ella | Fairy maiden; short for Eleanor-type names | #26 ↓7 | #46 ↓30 | #30 ↓15 |
| Penelope | Weaver (Odysseus's wife) | #49 ↑6 | #33 ↑11 | #28 ↓3 |
| Margot | Pearl (diminutive of Margaret) | #68 ↑68 | #30 ↑50 | #126 ↑107 |
| Lucy | Light | #52 ↑12 | — | #34 ↑16 |
| Millie | Work, industrious (diminutive of Amelia) | #83 ↑127 | #36 ↓3 | #86 ↑104 |
| Rose | Rose flower | #38 ↑1 | #67 ↓6 | #115 ↓3 |
| Ruby | Ruby gemstone | #90 ↓10 | #38 ↓8 | #63 ↑11 |
| Emilia | Rival, industrious | #40 ↑6 | #51 ↓20 | #43 ↓2 |
| Georgia | Farmer, earth-worker | #45 ↑34 | — | #110 ↑67 |
| Elodie | Foreign riches | #109 ↑9 | #49 ↑47 | #370 ↑332 |
| Stella | Star | #58 ↓2 | — | #49 ↓7 |
| Beatrice | She who brings happiness | #53 ↑4 | — | #579 ↓27 |
| Lillian | Lily flower | #96 ↓7 | — | #54 ↓8 |
| Josephine | God will add (fem. of Joseph) | #89 ↑18 | — | #56 ↑31 |
| Eloise | Healthy, wide | #57 ↑33 | #83 new | #64 ↑73 |
| Iris | Rainbow; the flower | #106 ↑39 | #57 ↑20 | #71 ↑56 |
| Sadie | Princess (diminutive of Sarah) | #70 ↑8 | — | #57 ↑21 |
| Adeline | Noble | #86 ↑45 | — | #58 ↑42 |
| Audrey | Noble strength | #59 ↓5 | — | #82 ↓22 |
| Rosalie | Little rose | #63 ↓13 | — | #177 ↑21 |
| Eliza | God is my oath | #294 ↓103 | #65 ↓22 | #118 ↓3 |
| Vivian | Alive, lively | #237 ↑20 | — | #77 ↑24 |
| Ophelia | Help | #132 ↑9 | #81 new | #261 ↑130 |
| Billie | Resolute protector | #93 ↑83 | — | #694 new |
| Norah | Honor (short form of Honora) | #94 ↓10 | — | #223 ↓71 |
| Lucia | Light | #235 ↑96 | — | #98 ↑62 |
| Cora | Maiden | #429 ↓78 | — | #102 ↓14 |
| Leonie | Lion | #110 ↑23 | — | — |
| Flora | Roman goddess of flowers | #117 ↑138 | — | #648 ↑280 |
| Melanie | Dark, black | #582 ↓139 | — | #122 ↓17 |
| Cecilia | Blind | #160 ↑33 | — | #123 ↑24 |
| Aubrey | Elf ruler | #157 ↓71 | — | #130 ↓74 |
| Esther | Star | #173 ↑32 | — | #131 ↑17 |
| Adele | Noble | #138 ↓26 | — | #798 ↓7 |
| Estelle | Star | #139 ↑58 | — | #636 ↑162 |
| Elise | God is my oath | #149 ↓17 | — | #252 ↓40 |
| Flavie | Golden, yellow-haired | #154 ↓11 | — | — |
| Tessa | Harvest (short form of Theresa) | #172 ↓52 | — | #303 ↓22 |
| Annabelle | Loving, beautiful | #187 ↓79 | — | #349 ↓128 |
| Ophelie | Help (French form of Ophelia) | #192 ↓62 | — | — |
| August | Great, magnificent | — | — | #910 ↓55 |
Boys 14 names
| Name | Meaning | Canada 2024 | England and Wales 2025 | USA 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore | Gift of God | #3 ↑8 | #9 ↑5 | #4 ↑19 |
| Arthur | Traditionally linked to "bear" | #18 ↑8 | #5 ↓2 | #105 ↑58 |
| Henry | Estate ruler | #12 ↑7 | #13 ↓2 | #6 ↑3 |
| Oscar | Deer lover | #153 ↓10 | #8 ↓1 | #217 ↓3 |
| Theo | Gift of God (short for Theodore) | #17 ↑13 | #12 ↑5 | #80 ↑92 |
| Arlo | From Harlow; army hill | #88 ↑59 | #15 ↑12 | #146 ↑74 |
| Miles | Soldier; merciful | #38 ↑48 | — | #37 ↑22 |
| Jasper | Treasurer; the gemstone | #80 ↓4 | #63 ↑15 | #133 ↑5 |
| Everett | Brave boar | #98 | — | #85 ↑4 |
| August | Great, magnificent | #105 ↑149 | — | #88 ↑67 |
| Milo | Merciful, gracious | #104 ↑12 | #90 ↓10 | #120 ↑14 |
| Emmett | Industrious | #97 ↓20 | — | #119 ↓13 |
| Tristan | Tumult, sorrow (legendary knight) | #133 ↓29 | — | #267 ↓84 |
| Gavin | White hawk (folk etymology) | #171 ↓36 | — | #255 ↓114 |
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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