The Journal

Stories about names, and the people who choose them.

Where names come from, how they travel, the traditions behind them, and what a century and a half of records can show.

Trends · 2 min readBack in bloom: the names your great-grandparents lovedHazel, Violet, Eleanor and Theodore spent most of the last century out of favor. Now they’re everywhere. Here’s what the records show about names that skip a few generations.

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