Classic Baby Names: 100+ Fashionable Classics

Updated Mon Mar 11 2019

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?

About the Author

Pamela Redmond

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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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The Nameberry App Is Live

Find your perfect baby name together in our iPhone app, now available on the App Store.

Swipe through thousands of names with your partner
Names you match on are saved to your shared list
Get personalized recommendations that learn based on your and your partner's preferences
Partner with friends and family to find names you all love
Backed by Nameberry's 20 years of data around name preferences.