10 baby names that will make a comeback in 2018
Just like hemlines and hairstyles, baby name trends go in cycles. Thanks to a few decades of near obscurity, these old-school names sound fresh and cool all over again. (Plus, they won?t remind you of that annoying girl from your grade six homeroom.)
1. Clara
The trend:Â Jazz-era names.
Name popularity tends to run in a 100-year cycle, says Laura Wattenberg, author of The Baby Name Wizard. ?The names of our parents? generation seem boring and our grandparents? names seem old, so it?s usually the names of our great-grandparents that sound different in a good way,? she explains. This means that the names of 1920s starlets like Clara Bow, Josephine Baker and Mae West are currently hot. Clara peaked in popularity at number 18 in 1901 and sunk to 593 in the late 1970s, but today it?s sitting pretty at 99.* See also: Emmett, Hazel, Lillian and Theodore
*All statistics from American social security records on baby names
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2. Evelyn
The trend: Exotic letters.
?I call these the ?high-value Scrabble tile names,?? says Wattenberg, meaning names with V, X, Z and even Q. ?Everybody wants their kid?s name to stand out, and one way to do that is with an unusual letter. That?s why you see Evelyn and Vivian more than, say, M...
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