These Old-Fashioned Baby Names Still Have Serious Appeal Today

Baby names of the ’20s

They didn’t call it the Roaring ’20s for nothing. In the 1920s, speakeasies were hot, and flappers broke out of the conventional molds for women. The fashions were iconic (and many are still in fashion today — hi, bobbed hair). And the names? Well, they were pretty and perfect. According to the SSA, these baby names were most popular in the 1920s.

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Top baby boy names of the 1920s

1. Robert
2. John
3. James
4. William
5. Charles
6. George
7. Joseph
8. Richard
9. Edward
10. Donald
11. Thomas
12. Frank
13. Harold
14. Paul
15. Raymond
16. Walter
17. Jack
18. Henry
19. Kenneth
20. Arthur

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Top baby girl names of the 1920s

1. Mary
2. Dorothy
3. Helen
4. Betty
5. Margaret
6. Ruth
7. Virginia
8. Doris
9. Mildred
10. Frances
11. Elizabeth
12. Evelyn
13. Anna
14. Marie
15. Alice
16. Jean
17. Shirley
18. Barbara
19. Irene
20. Marjorie

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