Old-Fashioned Baby Names

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Letitia is a delicate, once prim and proper sounding name whose staid image has been unbuttoned by numerous phonetic spellings. The original, often used in Spanish-speaking families, would still make an attractive, delicate choice. After a solid century on the Top 1000 list, Letitia fell off in the early 1980s and has not yet returned. 
<br/><br/>Letitia has a First Lady heritage, as the wife of President John Tyler.  Letitia Baldridge, White House social secretary to Jacqueline Kennedy, was often known as Tish.  These days, most parents would prefer the sweet, gold-locket pet forms Letty or Lettie.
<br/><br/>Spelled Laetitia, she was the Roman goddess of celebration, happiness and gaiety. The name appeared in the form Lettice in medieval England.

Letitia

Old-fashioned baby names rule the popularity lists today, with such 

 as Emma, Olivia, Amelia, Sophia, Charlotte, and Isabella ranking as top girl names in the US and 

 Noah, Oliver, Elijah, Benjamin, and Henry topping the boys' list.

Baby names tend to follow hundred-year cycles of popularity. Many of the old-fashioned names here were

 before coming back into style over the last decade.

old-fashioned baby names in the US Top 500

 include Abraham, Arthur, Edith, Frederick, Josephine, Olive, Philip, Rosemary, and Walter.

 that haven't yet hit the US list include Aurelius, Imogen, Ottilie, Phineas, Rupert, and Winifred. Other 

Old-fashioned baby names for girls and boys with a charming vintage flair, including Edith, Ottilie, Walter, and Phineas (Page 11)