What's in a name: Australia's most common baby names from the 1950s to 2010s

According to McCrindle Research, these were names most likely to fill Aussie classrooms in each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s.

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00:00Do you have a popular name or are you constantly having to spell your name because it's so

00:04rare?

00:05What's in a name?

00:06Here are Australia's most popular baby names from the 1950s to the 2010s according to Macrindle

00:14Research.

00:15Short one-syllable names dominated for girls in the 1950s with names including Joy, Jill,

00:22Sue and Lynn topping the list, while owing to her meteoric fame in the decade many girls

00:29were named Marilyn in honour of the blonde bombshell herself.

00:37Meanwhile commonplace names for boys in the 1950s included Frederick, Larry, Dennis, Victor,

00:45Graham and Alan.

00:47Girls names that grew in popularity during the swinging 60s were Ruth, Diane, Rosalyn

00:53and Gillian.

00:55For the boys it was Neville, Lindsay, Terrence, Murray and as a nod to the old blue eyes himself,

01:01Frank.

01:02From Frank, Sinatra.

01:04Australian classrooms in the 1970s began to be filled with girls named Anne, Janelle,

01:10Alison, Wendy, while the boys were Keith, Warren, Bruce, Nigel and Derek.

01:16Maximum Derek.

01:18Popular girls names in the 1980s included Jodie, Fiona, Joanna, Kelly and of course

01:23Kylie.

01:24Either named for Kylie Minogue or Kylie Mole, you choose.

01:36Meanwhile there were a whole bunch of boys being born named Mark, Wayne, Ian, Dane and

01:42Lee.

01:43Once Australia reached the 1990s you'd be most likely chillaxing in your crib with your

01:49mates named Michaela, Amanda, Lisa, Tegan and Renee, while the guys in your group were

01:55probably named Matthew, Sean, Dean, Mark or Trent.

02:01If you grew up at the turn of the millennium, chances are you knew a lot of girls named

02:05Alicia, Laura, Bianca, Katie or Ashley and you probably knew a fair few boys named Brayden,

02:12Jamie, Jeremy, Justin or Jason.

02:16A big decade for J names.

02:21During the 2010s there's been a resurgence of traditional girls names with Mila, Ayla,

02:26Elsie, Harriet, Esther and Eleanor topping the list.

02:31But for the boys born in the 2010s there's been a rise in more creative names including

02:36Arlo, Sunny, Vincent, Theo and Wyatt.

02:41Now, who's to say what will be the top trends for kids born in the 2020s?