63 Old-Fashioned Names To Consider When You Want Your Baby To Have A Unique (But Not Weird) Name

Yes, this just a list of old-person names that I think sound cool!

Like fashion, names are cyclical and come in and out of fashion. Like dad shoes, grandparent names are soon to come back in a big way. Hello, future baby Agathas!

I dug through the US Social Security Administration's archives for the top names in the 1880s/90s and then checked out some baby name blogs for inspiration. Here are the ones I think you should name your future, hypothetical baby.

(Note: It's not like these names are extinct or anything. Like, your name could very well be Sherman! This is just a list of names that have fallen off the contemporary top baby name list (the Billboard 100 of names, if you will) and deserve a resurgence.

1. Roscoe

2. Cornelius

There is a 0% chance you name your kid this and they don't become a CEO of something.

3. Ernest

The Academy Awards

4. Hubert

5. Dewey

Also good: Huey and Louie.

6. Percy

7. Otto

8. Irving

9. Waldo

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Now it'll be funny instead of heart-stoppingly terrifying when you lose track of your little one. Ha ha ha! Ha...?

10. Garland

11. Ambrose

12. Amos

Like the cookies, your child could spread joy far and wide with this name.

13. Cecil

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14. Jasper

15. Clayton

16. Noble

Putting a lot of pressure on the kid with a name like that, but I think they can handle it.

17. Grover

Sesame Street

The best Muppet, the only US president to do two nonconsecutive terms in office, and your baby.

18. Edwin

19. Chester

No one has to know you named your baby after the Cheetos mascot. Just tell them you got the idea from this list.

20. Willard

21. Kermit

If people are naming their kids Khaleesi you can totally name yours Kermit. 🐸

22. Errol

Warner Bros

23. Franklin

24. Wilbur

Things you can call your child if you name them Wilbur: Terrific, Radiant, Humble, Some Pig.

25. Vernon

26. Essie

27. Mabel

Disney

Yes, like the Gravity Falls character.

28. Ethel

29. Ruth

This is my mom's name so I'm biased. But why wouldn't you want your own Baby Ruth???

30. Pearl

31. Agnes

ABC

32. May

Too many Aprils walking around and not enough Mays.

33. Elsie

34. Gladys

35. Edith

Ina

36. Hattie

37. Viola

38. Flora

39. Effie

E4

Remember Skins? Effy was cool. Why aren't there more Effy/ies?

40. Fern

This is what I want to name my imaginary baby and yet no one will let me! Folks, the baby isn't even real and my mother is still furious.

41. Marion

42. Gertrude

43. Esther

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44. Goldie

A great Animal Crossing character and a great kid, I'd bet.

45. Della

46. Maud

47. Edna

Micheaux Film Corporation

48. Willie

49. Estella

Or Estelle!

50. Ora

51. Blanche

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52. Leona

53. Birdie

54. Genevieve

55. Minerva

You know, like the Roman goddess of wisdom? And yes, OK, war too, but focus on the wisdom part.

56. Flossie

57. Agatha

58. Lucinda

59. Winifred

Disney

Call them Winnie! So cute!

60. Bernadette

Then when they're old enough, they can read the instant classic book Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

61. Ida

62. Beryl

63. Sibyl

How do you feel about these old-school names? Do you agree with me that Fern is a Very Cool name? Did I write this whole thing just to bring legitimacy to my fake child's name? Feel free to scream at me in the comments.

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