As you may have heard, there’s even a young royal named not the forbidding Archibald or the nouveau Archer, but just plain Archie. This trend toward giving babies antique nicknames that stand on their own started in Britain, where vintage short forms such as Evie, Elsie, Alfie and Freddie rank among the current top 25. Harvey makes the list, too, but we have a feeling that one won’t last. Some of the new old choices that now appear in the top 1,000 (but did not a decade ago) include Willa and Wallace, Margot and Otis, Leona and Lionel. Over the past decade, millennial parents have had to dig even deeper to find classic names that felt fresh again. That’s true even when it comes to an established trend like the fashion for vintage names, which has been around since the parents of today’s parents excavated Jessica and Joshua, Amanda and Jacob to create a new middle path between old-school names like John and Mary and newfangled confections like Jodi and Troy. One of the main precepts of naming trends is that every generation of parents needs to reinvent baby names. Here are some of the names and the trends that have defined the past decade. To identify the naming trends that have most shaped parents’ choices in the 2010s, we analyzed the more than 500 names that ranked in the top 1,000 in 2018 - the last year counted - that were not on the list in 2008. What forces turned these two names into major stars over the past decade while thousands of others remain unknown? Barring a deadly storm or a heinous criminal with one of those names, babies named Freya and Theo seem destined to fill nurseries for years to come. 266, used for more than 1,200 baby girls. 243 on the official United States list of popular names, given to more than 1,500 baby boys in 2018. And Freya, the name of the ancient Norse goddess of love, beauty and fertility, had never been on it. Theo hadn’t appeared on the Social Security Administration’s official list of the top 1,000 American baby names since World War II. And, 10 years ago, Freya and Theo were all of those things. You probably put a lot of thought and energy into finding a baby name that was classic yet unusual, time-honored yet distinctive. If you named your child Freya or Theo at the start of this decade, I’m sorry. This story was originally published on Dec.
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