It’s a genuine question that’s popped into my head because of how hard it seems to be for me to find a baby name that is truly timeless. I feel like there’s so many examples of this but I notice a lot that when a name has been around since the 1800s and longer people call on here it “timeless” but i don’t necessarily think that’s true.
There’s soo many old classic names that are linked to certain time periods imo.
I think the strongest example of this would be Emily, it’s obviously an old name with a few historical namesakes but it never extremely popular until the 90s/2000s when it became the top name in the country. It fell out of the top 100 in 1914 and joined again 60 years later in 1973 and gradually got higher over the years, that’s a long time of minimal use and does not make the name feel timeless at all. It was the most popular name for millennials/gen z and I do associate it a lot with that specific time period if I’m being honest.
Olivia would be a good example of this for gen alpha, it was an old Shakespeare name and wasnt popular for years and then came back around for the generation of babies born today.
They are both undoubtedly classic old names but they are certainly not timeless.
There are probably more names to use as an example but these are the ones I thought of off the top of my head.