Top 10 baby names set to return to popularity due to 100 year rule

dailyrecord.co.uk:

The top 20 baby names set to make a comeback have been predicted by new research. The results are based on record analysis and in accordance with the trend that names become popular in 100 year cycles, making them remerge every century.

The findings from family history brand Findmypast also revealed that royal events influence the popularity of baby names. In 1926, the Queen's birth year, the name Elizabeth surged with a 16% increase in popularity.Also Prince Harry’s birth in 1984 caused the name to flourish in the following decades, after a dip across the 1960s and 1970s.

According to Wales Online, Findmypast expects the royal obsession to continue across the next decade with families looking to the recent births of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s babies, Lillibet and Archie, for inspiration.

Royal marriages also provided the population with plenty of inspiration when it came to choosing a name for their babies throughout history, with a whopping 56% increase in babies named Phillip in 1947, the year the Prince married Elizabeth.Similarly, the name Diana saw a resurgence in 1981, in celebration of her wedding to Prince Charles with a staggering 122% increase in babies named after her.Digitised exclusively by Findmypast and recently released to the public for the first time a century later, the 1921 Census revealed the most popular names for children under one.