Vintage names for girls that increased, in numbers

The SSA does it by rank, but this is by raw numbers of names. A ‘+100’ indicates that 100 more babies were born with that name in 2017 than they were in 2016. I didn’t include anything with a + of fewer than 15. I’m only counting names that enjoyed some degree of popularity more than 50 years ago i.e. 1968, as evidenced by the top 1000.

+1695 [name_f]Luna[/name_f]
+1098 [name_f]Amelia[/name_f]
+970 [name_f]Bella[/name_f]
+754 [name_f]Nova[/name_f]
+615 [name_u]Evelyn[/name_u]
+593 [name_f]Iris[/name_f]
+475 [name_f]Nora[/name_f]
+435 [name_f]Alice[/name_f]
+419 [name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]
+370 [name_f]Hazel[/name_f]
+322 [name_f]Emma[/name_f]
+272 [name_f]Penelope[/name_f]
+247 [name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
+231 [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
+210 [name_f]Eliza[/name_f]
+201 [name_f]Bonnie[/name_f]
+180 [name_f]Diana[/name_f]
+152 [name_f]Arabella[/name_f]
+150 [name_f]Millie[/name_f]
+149 [name_u]Charlie[/name_u]
+147 [name_f]Jolene[/name_f]
+134 [name_f]Amalia[/name_f]
+132 [name_u]Josie[/name_u]
+126 [name_f]Stella[/name_f]
+115 [name_f]Emmie[/name_f]
+113 [name_f]Ruth[/name_f]
+112 [name_f]Margot[/name_f]
+108 [name_u]June[/name_u]
+103 [name_f]Elsie[/name_f]
+101 [name_f]Vera[/name_f]
+98 [name_f]Rosalie[/name_f]
+95 [name_f]Roselyn[/name_f]
+94 [name_f]Mabel[/name_f]
+88 [name_f]Luella[/name_f]
+86 [name_f]Olive[/name_f]
+75 [name_f]Lucille[/name_f]
+74 [name_f]Joanna[/name_f]
+74 [name_f]Joelle[/name_f]
+69 [name_f]Daisy[/name_f]
+67 [name_u]Eloise[/name_u]
+67 [name_f]Thea[/name_f]
+65 [name_f]Alma[/name_f]
+61 [name_f]Opal[/name_f]
+57 [name_f]Irene[/name_f]
+56 [name_f]Faye[/name_f]
+54 [name_f]Leona[/name_f]
+50 [name_f]Ada[/name_f]
+50 [name_f]Dorothy[/name_f]
+46 [name_f]Celeste[/name_f]
+44 [name_f]Belle[/name_f]
+44 [name_f]Estella[/name_f]
+44 [name_f]Holly[/name_f]
+43 [name_u]Meredith[/name_u]
+43 [name_f]Rose[/name_f]
+40 [name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
+38 [name_u]Frankie[/name_u]
+36 [name_f]Jewel[/name_f]
+34 [name_f]Miriam[/name_f]
+33 [name_f]Rosie[/name_f]
+32 [name_f]Eileen[/name_f]
+31 [name_f]Esther[/name_f]
+29 [name_f]Eve[/name_f]
+29 [name_f]Mina[/name_f]
+27 [name_f]Hattie[/name_f]
+27 [name_f]Louise[/name_f]
+27 [name_f]Nola[/name_f]
+26 [name_f]Regina[/name_f]
+25 [name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
+24 [name_f]Louisa[/name_f]
+22 [name_f]Sylvia[/name_f]
+18 [name_f]Edith[/name_f]
+18 [name_f]Florence[/name_f]
+17 [name_f]Magdalena[/name_f]
+16 [name_f]Elaine[/name_f]

and +66 to [name_f]Frida[/name_f], which didn’t get on the top 1000 ever until 2003, but is an alternate spelling of previously-popular [name_f]Freida[/name_f], and +86 to not-on-top-1000-until-2010-but-vintage-in-[name_f]France[/name_f]-maybe [name_f]Esme[/name_f], +58 to sounds-vintage-and-maybe-is-in-Europe [name_f]Maisie[/name_f], and +68 to 80s name [name_u]Stevie[/name_u]

If I missed any, sorry!

Ooh nice. This will be really nice to delve into a little deeper when I have more time on my hands. A scatterplot of the percent change vs the number change would be interesting for figuring out which names have moved most relative to their starting positions (gained the most steam)

I polled [name_f]Nova[/name_f] and [name_f]Luna[/name_f] on other name sites about five years ago and they never got much positive response ([name_f]Nova[/name_f] means no go in Spanish!)…crazy how much those names have climbed in that time period. Yay Teen Mom and [name_m]Harry[/name_m] [name_m]Potter[/name_m] I guess?

I love seeing [name_f]Diana[/name_f], [name_f]Vera[/name_f], [name_u]Meredith[/name_u], and [name_u]June[/name_u] gaining steam.