In 1850 Lucy was seen in regular frequency.

Weird boy names from the 1800s. Along with John and William other colonial names for boys in the US Top 200 include Abraham Alexander Christopher Elias Isaac Jacob Levi and Nathaniel. Guess who had the last laugh. Eli is a Hebrew name that means ascended Everett.

However in WWI Cuthbert became slang for someone avoiding military service especially by taking a government job and abruptly fell out of use. From the Roman family name Cyprianus Cyprian means from Cyprus. Parents in Victorian times liked to give their children names that were popular in the Middle Ages.

This is a classic English name with origins from the Old English word ceorl meaning man Eli. Clara Latin origin one of the elegant baby names from the 1800s refers to someone with a sharp and a bright mind. Eleanor French origin this pretty name from the 1800s means bright.

The name Warner is a popular title that was suuuper hot during the late 1800s -- and which can still seem fresh today. A girl ran into her ex-boyfriend at the gas station where he was with his girlfriend and her little baby in the back seat named Rage. A Scottish surname coming from the Gaelic word for headland.

The name is of Latin origin and it means bright. The unusual name of Cuthbert was briefly popular in the late 19th century and past the Victorian era into the 1910s. Top Old-Fashioned Boy Names.

And then there were other short-form names not ending in the trendy ie but feeling like lopped-off pieces of longer names though what exactly those longer names might be its sometimes hard to guess. Many King Louis of France Sandra Bullocks son and actor Louis Partridge. This name belongs to the son of reality star David Rainey.