Classy Undiscovered Names
Genuine ✅ Stylish ✅ Popular ❌ Unhinged ❌
In a world where high-profile announcements swing from one extreme (Forever Sugar) to the other (Kelsey Grammer’s new son is…Christopher), is there any middle ground?
Are there any names left that are fresh but not crazy, classy but not boring and overdone?
Yep, we’re talking about the “sweet spot” of baby names. Which names sit there change from year to year — and person to person — but we can lay down a few suggestions.
The names below were all given to under 150 babies in the US last year — putting them well below the Top 1000. Yet they’re all familiar, traditional, full of style and character. Oh, and they won’t make your grandmother roast you.
Girls
Boys
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eh. sweet spot names never work. i'd only go for a long ultra common / ultra unusual name with a package of nn's.
More ideas for boys!
100-150: Arrow, Benton, Finnick, Holland, Landry, Mars, Ozzie, Phineas/Finneas, Radley, Scout,, Steele, Stellan, Townes, West, Ziggy
50-99: Alfie, Basil, Calder, Calloway/Callaway, Conan, Dashiell, Ignatius, Leopold, Nigel, Olin, Stephan, Truman, Valentine, Wendell, Willem
Less than 50: Abbott, Albie, Aloysius, Art, Barnabas, Baxter, Collier, Darcy, Ferdinand, Finnigan, Hawthorne, Ike, Isidore, Peregrine, Perrin, Prescott, Robinson, Rupert, Stuart/Stewart, Winslow