Currently on our dds name right now and it has me wondering, is there any such thing as a modern classic name?Our second choice is Emily which my dh loves but I don't love although I definitely don't dislike it. . I don't think it's as old as a name like say Elizabeth or Sarah but I'm aware Emily is obviously an old name which has been around since the 1800s (Emily Brontë and Dickinson) so it does have a couple of historical namesakes.
Despite this i always thought if it as more of a "modern classic" in the way that it only got rediscovered and became popular in the last thirty years. According to a lot of naming websites Emily, was the number 1 name in the US/UK/Australia in the 90s/00s, it’s sliding down the charts now and will probably never be as popular as it has been over the last 25 years again. Not that it’s necessarily a bad things and it doesn't take away that it's a lovely name but I just wouldn’t class it as timeless.
I would put names like Olivia, Isabella, Lily etc in the same category, they are very old names but stopped being used for a good hundred years and now sound young again.
What other names would you class as modern classics?