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Old-fashioned baby names due a comeback

Names in the top 100 in the early 1900s that are rare today.

In the UK

46 names in the UK's 2025 records.

Girls

  1. Betty 111 girls in 2025
  2. Constance 116 girls in 2025
  3. May 75 girls in 2025
  4. Vera 51 girls in 2025
  5. Peggy 77 girls in 2025
  6. Minnie 99 girls in 2025
  7. Lilian 75 girls in 2025
  8. Bridget 51 girls in 2025
  9. Agnes 84 girls in 2025
  10. Enid 47 girls in 2025
  11. Thelma 10 girls in 2025
  12. Maud 5 girls in 2025
  13. Monica 26 girls in 2025
  14. Louisa 66 girls in 2025
  15. Dora 25 girls in 2025
  16. Gwendoline 9 girls in 2025
  17. Edna 7 girls in 2025
  18. Doris 6 girls in 2025
  19. Phyllis not listed in 2025
  20. Gertrude not listed in 2025
  21. Blanche not listed in 2025
  22. Ellen 45 girls in 2025
  23. Millicent 33 girls in 2025
  24. Bessie 15 girls in 2025
  25. Freda 11 girls in 2025
  26. Rosina 12 girls in 2025

Boys

  1. Edwin 103 boys in 2025
  2. Laurence 106 boys in 2025
  3. Ivor 77 boys in 2025
  4. Arnold 59 boys in 2025
  5. Fred 68 boys in 2025
  6. Edmund 59 boys in 2025
  7. Roland 38 boys in 2025
  8. Lionel 24 boys in 2025
  9. Tom 68 boys in 2025
  10. Herbert 40 boys in 2025
  11. Harold 23 boys in 2025
  12. Morris 15 boys in 2025
  13. Edgar 22 boys in 2025
  14. Alec 36 boys in 2025
  15. Horace not listed in 2025
  16. Gilbert 12 boys in 2025
  17. Hubert 28 boys in 2025
  18. Cecil 4 boys in 2025
  19. Bertram 7 boys in 2025
  20. Clarence not listed in 2025

In the US

89 names in the US's 2025 records.

Girls

  1. Leona 723 girls in 2025
  2. Mae 594 girls in 2025
  3. Edith 595 girls in 2025
  4. Beatrice 583 girls in 2025
  5. Eileen 437 girls in 2025
  6. Rosa 441 girls in 2025
  7. Irene 442 girls in 2025
  8. Lillie 420 girls in 2025
  9. Pearl 350 girls in 2025
  10. Jessie 330 girls in 2025
  11. Marjorie 246 girls in 2025
  12. Agnes 246 girls in 2025
  13. Lorraine 238 girls in 2025
  14. Mattie 249 girls in 2025
  15. Viola 247 girls in 2025
  16. Marian 217 girls in 2025
  17. Ida 209 girls in 2025
  18. Lois 124 girls in 2025
  19. Mildred 98 girls in 2025
  20. Norma 95 girls in 2025
  21. Susie 101 girls in 2025
  22. Lula 100 girls in 2025
  23. Marion 93 girls in 2025
  24. Johnnie 42 girls in 2025
  25. Hilda 55 girls in 2025
  26. Sidney 105 girls in 2025
  27. Marguerite 71 girls in 2025
  28. Edna 72 girls in 2025
  29. Dora 75 girls in 2025
  30. Geraldine 73 girls in 2025
  31. and 19 more

Boys

  1. Edgar 617 boys in 2025
  2. Roland 466 boys in 2025
  3. Sam 428 boys in 2025
  4. Clyde 350 boys in 2025
  5. Ray 319 boys in 2025
  6. Alfred 293 boys in 2025
  7. Ben 292 boys in 2025
  8. Leroy 269 boys in 2025
  9. Alvin 294 boys in 2025
  10. Wallace 241 boys in 2025
  11. Gordon 209 boys in 2025
  12. Maurice 220 boys in 2025
  13. Elmer 165 boys in 2025
  14. Vernon 133 boys in 2025
  15. Will 170 boys in 2025
  16. Gilbert 145 boys in 2025
  17. Cecil 119 boys in 2025
  18. Clifford 139 boys in 2025
  19. Sidney 146 boys in 2025
  20. Arnold 120 boys in 2025
  21. Bernard 137 boys in 2025
  22. Luther 122 boys in 2025
  23. Woodrow 102 boys in 2025
  24. Chester 107 boys in 2025
  25. Milton 125 boys in 2025
  26. Lloyd 111 boys in 2025
  27. Jessie 126 boys in 2025
  28. Lester 103 boys in 2025
  29. Alton 106 boys in 2025
  30. Clarence 117 boys in 2025
  31. and 15 more

More ideas

Baby names on the rise, Vintage baby names back in fashion, Classic baby names, New baby names, Uncommon baby names on the rise, Unisex baby names, Short baby names, Baby names more popular in Scotland, Baby names more popular in Northern Ireland, Baby names going out of fashion

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Old-fashioned baby names due a comeback”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ideas/comeback, updated 20 October 2026.