A sizeable number of people come to nameberry every day searching for Old Lady Names – and they’re not looking for a new moniker for Grandma. Rather, they’re looking for Old Lady Names that sound new again for babies.
As a genre, Old Lady Names are approaching their third wave of stylishness. The initial wave was identified in our first baby name book, Beyond Jennifer & Jason, published in 1988, as the hot Grandma names and the edgier Baby Women names.
Hot Grandmas included such folksy choices as:
The more buttoned-up Baby Women names we called “the names of the rich great-aunts who, ten years ago, you might have prayed would not ask you to name your child after them. These included such now-stylish (but then-outrageous) choices as:
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