Recently I have taken notice to the fact that the newest and most appealing baby names of the latest generation today, seem to have a vintage allure. It has been noticed that previously popular names do not become popular again until after four generations have passed. I think this is very interesting. Today, names which have been proven dapper likewise to this new era are names similar in aura to those such as Isabella, Eva, and Ruby. And for boys, names like Leo, Jack, and Henry. I believe that although there is a trend in the repetition of these names after particular periods of time (4 generations), that it says something about the way our culture is geared.
Names that gave the image of a grandfather surrounded by the scent of pepper-mints and tobacco in a musty, old, wall-papered house, from the vague memory of a child’s emotional mind, remain unappealing and out of style to the present-day baby-boomer. But for their children, only the good stories of their “great-grandfather Samuel and great-grandmother Ella Rose” stand out in their minds, which gives these names a refreshing flatter. Perhaps this is because it is not hard to picture calling a newborn baby a name that was typically only heard before the modern-generation parents were old enough to have remembered hearing.
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