Around one in ten babies born last year were given a top ten baby name with Charlotte and Oliver taking the crown for the most popular baby names in Australia once again.

Most popular baby names last 20 years. As the 2010s draw to a close classic. The name was brought into circulation after the Middle Ages by poets who used it as a direct reference to the Latin word amanda meaning worthy of love Amanda became more commonly used during the 19th century. Only three girls names Emily Elizabeth and Ashley were in the top 10 during both the 1990s and 2000s while eight boys.

102 rows The following table shows the five most frequent given names for male and female babies born in each year 1921-2020. Over the last ten years Charlotte has been crowned number one for seven of those years and has been the 1 girls name every year since overtaking Olivia in 2015 the same year Princess Charlotte was born. Here are the top baby names of the year according to the names of more than 550000 babies born in 2020 to parents registered on BabyCenter.

Looking at the last 20 years in particular the difference is striking. Over the last 100 years the male name Michael has held the top spot most often 44 times while the female name Mary has been ranked number one 35 times over those years. Florence Elsie Ivy and Violet have all made somewhat of a comeback into the top 100 but they have not reached the heights of their early 20th century popularity.

Amanda remained in the top 10 most popular girl names for nearly 20 years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. But Muhammad still held strong for another year as the most popular name in the boys chart. Analysing the 1911 Census the 1939 Register and official survey results from 2015 find my past uncovered that names like Oliver and Olivia are winners now but it was John and Edith who led the baby-name pack back in 1911.

There was a change at the top of the girls names chart as Sophia knocked Olivia off the top spot after a four-year reign. On the social and political fronts Kamala up 104 and Liberty up 12 rose in popularity while Karen and Chad declined by 13 and 12 respectively. 103 rows Name Number Name Number.

Top baby names of 2020.