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"If you think there are a lot of children around with names that sound like
they’re from your grandmother’s era, you’re not wrong.
A
Guardian Australia analysis of trends in Australian baby names shows a
recent resurgence in some names from the early 1900s, such as Josephine, Evelyn
and George. But when you look at data going back to the 1930s, you can see how
much Australia has changed.
Oliver, Jack and Charlotte have been some of the most popular baby names in
Australia over the past decade, but the diversity of names is increasing.
As a result, the most popular names are not as dominant as they used to be.
Despite a growing population, over the past decade about half as many children
each year were named Oliver as were named Peter in the 1960s, for example.
In the following chart, you can see the popularity of each name over time (by
default showing only the top 50). You can also search the data to see names
from the entire dataset. There isn’t a national dataset of baby names by year,
so
Guardian Australia had to cobble together datasets from states and
territories, which only publish the top 100 names in each year."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
