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Classic Baby Names: 100+ Fashionable Classics

Can you be fashionable and classic at the same time? Ask anyone who’s ever lusted after a Chanel bag or longed to drive a vintage Mercedes: of course you can.

But when it comes to baby names, not all classic baby names are fashionable (sorry, John and Mary), and most fashionable names are not classic.

So which names achieve the perfect combination of fashionable and classic? We scoured the lists of names both popular and unique to come up with these 100 fashionable classic baby names,  from a range of sources.

Girl Names

  • Ada

  • Alma

  • Antonia

  • Athena

  • Aurora

  • Beatrice

  • Camilla

  • Cecilia

  • Celia

  • Clara

  • Clio

  • Cora

  • Cordelia

  • Cosima

  • Daisy

  • Delilah

  • Dorothea

  • Edith

  • Eliza

  • Eloise

  • Esme

  • Eulalia

  • Faye

  • Flora

  • Frances

  • Hazel

  • Helena

  • Honor

  • Ida

  • Imogen

  • Ione

  • Iris

  • Josephine

  • Juliet

  • June

  • Leonora

  • Louise

  • Magdalene

  • Margot

  • Marguerite

  • Matilda

  • Ophelia

  • Pearl

  • Persephone

  • Phoebe

  • Rosamund

  • Rowena

  • Seraphina

  • Sophie

  • Susannah

  • Sylvia

  • Thea

  • Una

  • Vida

  • Violet

  • Vivian

Boy Names

  • Abel

  • Abner

  • Abraham

  • Albert

  • Arthur

  • Asher

  • Benedict

  • Casper

  • Cassius

  • Clyde

  • Cyrus

  • Ezekiel

  • Ezra

  • Felix

  • Finnian

  • Florian

  • Frederick

  • Harry

  • Henry

  • Josiah

  • Jude

  • Jupiter

  • Justus

  • Lazarus

  • Linus

  • Lucian

  • Moses

  • Omar

  • Oscar

  • Otto

  • Ozias

  • Quincy

  • Raphael

  • Reuben

  • Roman

  • Rufus

  • Samson

  • Silas

  • Solomon

  • Thaddeus

  • Theo

  • Tobias

  • Ulysses

  • Urban

  • Victor

  • Vincent

  • Virgil

  • Wallace

  • Walter

  • Zebediah

What names would you add to this list? Any you’d take away?

Pamela Redmond

Pamela Redmond is the cocreator and CEO of Nameberry and Baby Name DNA. The coauthor of ten groundbreaking books on names, Redmond is an internationally-recognized baby name expert, quoted and published widely in such media outlets as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Today Show, CNN, and the BBC. She has written about baby names for The Daily Beast, The Huffington Post, and People.

Redmond is also a New York Times bestselling novelist whose books include Younger, the basis for the hit television show, and its sequel, Older. She has three new books in the works.

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