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I have a lot of names that I feel should come back! Also, I love the name Constance for a girl!

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Female:
Dorothy
Adella
Connie (and its rhyming sister, Bonnie)
Roxanne
Susanna and Susan
Tiffany
Melissa
Katrina
Hester
Estelle
Ethel
Nancy
Priscilla
Cecily
Doris
Flora
Janet
Pamela
Sally
Lisa
Anne
Valerie
Beatrice
Mavis
Dora

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Male:
Bradley
Vincent
Evander
Irvin
Marvin
Frederick
Raymond
Geoffrey
Gregory
Dennis
Paul
Leroy or just Roy
Chester
Irwin
Leonard

Donna
Meredith
Christine
Lawrence
Frederic
Edward
Stephanie
Tamara
Allen / Alan

This message was edited 7/27/2024, 4:22 AM

I'm ready for a bunch of steampunk names to take off in an airship in full neovictorian fashion.

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Agatha - I don't really like this name, but I'd weirdly like seeing it make a comeback.
Althea
Beatrix
Cordelia
Gretchen
Ingrid
Lucinda
Mavis
Seraphina
Sophronia
Verbena
Winifred

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Bertram
Constantine
Cornelius
Cyrus
Endeavor
Godfrey
Ivo
Jerome
Lionel
Milo
Robin
Silas
Thaddeus

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I'd also like to meet someone named Antigone, Everild, Yorath and Taliesin.
It's been fun seeing Meredith and Zelda get more attention, so I'm hoping other old names will take off too.

This message was edited 7/26/2024, 4:49 PM

I like Constance.

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Ready, I don't know about - but I'd like to see

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Carol
Dora
Edith
Marion
Janine / Jeannine
Jean / Jeanne

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Myron
Terry
Virgil
Gilbert

Pauline
Rosa
Virginia
Alma
Fern
Lucinda
Letitia
Lorna

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Bernard
Francis
Victor
Frederick
Martin
Florian

I used to have a friend named Constance when I was in the UK; she's a teenager now. She goes by Connie. Great name!

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I want Sibyl and Ethel to come back. Both such gorgeous names and I think they're old enough now to be vintage instead of dated to the grandma era.

I have no idea why, but Susan was the first thing that popped into my head.

I was just thinking about Constance yesterday! I agree, I think it's lovely, and Connie is so cheerful and cute.

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I think Helen should start coming back, as well as the "een" names like Francine, Eileen, Nadine, Kathleen, etc. They have this great energy that feels so real and warm and "salt of the earth"-like but with a sharp, biting wit and intelligence.

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For boys I'd love to see 1920s style names make a comeback: Clarence, Clark, Calvin, Chester, Francis, stuff like that.

I think Helen is ready for a comeback. I also like Rosalind.

Agnes, Alma, Beatrice, Celia, Constance, Della, Elsie, Enid, Flora, Greta, Harriet, Ida, Juliet, Louisa, Lucille, Mabel, Marjorie, Opal, Pearl, Rosalind, Susanna, Viola, Willa, Winnie, Zelda.

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Ambrose, Benedict, Claude, Conrad, Edmund, Ephraim, Frederick, Gideon, Hugo, Inigo, Julius, Lucian, Montgomery, Orson, Otto, Quincy, Rufus, Solomon, Stephen, Thaddeus, Truman, Vance, Warren, Wilbur, Zeke.

These are all names that I think deserve a comeback in the USA, some of them are already popular in the UK, which I’ve commented on. It’s interesting the compare the difference in two countries- I think the UK has a few popular names that’d still be considered old fashioned in the US!

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Caspar (gradually going up in the UK)
Cecil
Clarence
Edmund
Edna
Elaine (though it looks like it is beginning to revive!)
Ellen
Ethel
Flora (this one absolutely shocked me when I saw how low it’s popularity in the USA is- not unpopular in the UK)
Frances (M and F)
Francis (M and F)
Harold
Harry (so popular in the UK, I think its long deserved a revival in the USA)
Helen
Hilda
Inez
Irene
Leonard
Lionel (may be making it’s comeback?)
Margery
Marion (M and F)
Minnie
Nancy (popular in the UK)
Stanley
Velma
Winifred (also going up quite a lot in the UK)

This message was edited 7/25/2024, 12:05 AM

Constance is my grandma’s name!

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Girls: Charlene, Ida, Marlene, Millicent, Prudence, Sophronia, Viola
Boys: Angus, Casper, Clarence, Cornelius, Curtis, Percy

I’d like to see Cordelia, Katrina, Velma & Winifred make a comeback.