Popular Given Names US 1801-1999.

Guy names in the 1800s. Rarer retro names for baby boys on the rise include Linus Cassian Ned and Aurelius. Along with August and Theodore other vintage names for boys in the US Top 200 include Abel Asher Bennett Elias Finn Henry Jasper and Xavier. Berton Albert Bertram Bertrand Bertran Cuthbert Egbert Gilbert or Gilburt Burt Herbert Hubert Lambert Norbert Robert Wilbert Berthold Berton Burton Delbert Inglebert Engelbert Filbert or Hulbert.

A vintage name can give your son a good measure of history and heft to rely on. Many old fashioned baby boy names are rising in the shadows as well like the modern-sounding Harley Waylon and Quentin. In this decade only one boy took the name Albert 1852 made popular by Queen Victorias beloved consort Prince Albert.

The tables below provide links to text files of GINAP version 1 standardized given names. Bert may be a nickname for. Any of these names would feel at home on a ranch farm or even just living in the wilderness.

Other Norman names include Hugh Walter Laurence and Roger which retained their social cachet witness Sir Walter Elliot in Persuasion. Names like William Lucas and Elijah were all once viewed as old fashioned yet are some of the top names today. Parents considering a boy name like Noah Elijah Mason or Logan should know that their baby boy will be in good company as those names are some of the top 10 most popular boy names.

Luckily the Social Security Administration publishes annual lists of the most popular names each year dating back to the 1800s. Names separated by sex are listed in descending order of popularity. For the Census samples all standardized names that had.

The file lines consist of a name a comma and then the count of occurrences in the sample. Of the rest William George Richard Henry Harry Robert Charles Edmund Edward and Francis are names used by royalty many dating back to Norman or even Saxon times as with Edward and Edmund.