Underused baby names due for a come back?

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I’m gonna say it - Hillary

It’s a lovely name that needs to come back sometime

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Mary

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Anonymous wrote:Freddy is already very popular.

Define "very popular" because it and its variations are ranked pretty low on the SSN list. I've never met one, of any age.

Your world is small then as I can think of two just off the top of my head.

What a weird comment.

It's a statistically uncommon name. You may know people with it, but it's not "very popular." We have data for this, you don't just get to make stuff up because you personally know a couple people with that name.

There are people today named Fred, OP (and you) acts like no one ever in this century is or has been named Fred.

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Phoebe

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Phyllis

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Meredith

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Norine

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Anonymous wrote:Janet

Julie

Laura

Becky

Cynthia

Sally

This one won't be back for awhile. It sits with Karen as names that have been cancelled.

Rebecca is such a classic though. But not underused. It was quite popular for a long time and has now settle down to still somewhat popular but juuuust under the radar. I think it's appropriately rated.

I think Rebecca is likely to come back but nobody will use Becky as a nickname. It will be Becca or even something unexpected like Ricky.

My preschooler is Rebecca, named in honor of my mother, whose given name is Becky. Daycare kids who have been in the same class since they started talking call her Becca.

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Anonymous wrote:Freddy is already very popular.

Define "very popular" because it and its variations are ranked pretty low on the SSN list. I've never met one, of any age.

Your world is small then as I can think of two just off the top of my head.

What a weird comment.

It's a statistically uncommon name. You may know people with it, but it's not "very popular." We have data for this, you don't just get to make stuff up because you personally know a couple people with that name.

There are people today named Fred, OP (and you) acts like no one ever in this century is or has been named Fred.

OP here. I definitely never said that! It’s just not that popular (Frederick in the 400s, other variations much lower). It’s not common like Henry or Theodore (names I really like but would not use because they are too common). I personally don’t know any Fred/Freddys and I have never seen it suggested on this site or any of the naming sites/blogs accounts I follow.

But I definitely never said no one had it. Just that I think it’s a great name that isn’t used that often. Not sure why that made you mad!

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Amanda
Evette
Evonne
Lauren
Alyssa
Allison
Lana
Suzette
Michaela

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Penelope

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Anonymous wrote:Marjorie

Really bad reference at the moment.

Not for the vast majority of the country. And I mean that by way of saying most people don’t pay that much attention to politics, not that MTG isn’t bat shit crazy. Marjorie is a solid name.

Whoever said Evelyn is late. That’s a top 10 name in the SSA index.

I think Gen Z and younger millennials would be equally or more likely to associate the name Marjorie with the Taylor Swift song as they would MTG.

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Anonymous wrote:Myrtle

Eunice

Euclid

Mabel

Gwendolyn

Ida

Muriel

Not a fan of any of these names coming back, other than Gwen and Mabel. My daughter had two Mabels in her Brownie troop this year so it may already be coming back.

I think Mabel is coming back. It dropped out of the top 1000 in 1964, re-entered at #711 in 2013, and was #314 in 2022. That's a pretty quick rise!

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Anonymous wrote:The lovely 80s Js:

Jennifer
Jessica
Julie
Julia
Jenna

And
Justin
Jason
Jeremy
Jonathan
Joseph


Add girls Sarah with an h, Sara without an H, Melissa, Lauren, and Rachel. And boys Matt, Daniel, David, and Michael.

All of these are top 40 names. They've endured through the years. Joseph is #30.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of these names are being used. My rising HS senior has a classmate named Fred (short for Frederick).

As for the girls names, our 8&u girls swimmers are full girls named Alice, Barbara, Nora, Eloise & Louise, Josephine, Lillian and Millie. I saw one Diana. The boys' names aren't quite as classic.

We met a few Sabrinas the other day -- hadn't heard that one in a long time.

3 Noras on our 8&under sports team this year!

I'm an elementary teacher and Nora is insaaaaanely popular. Some are Eleanor, some are just Nora. But it's almost on the Emma/Olivia/Sophia level of popularity.