The most popular baby names in the UK over the past 90 years revealed… and the ones which just never go away
OLIVIA was top of the baby lists for 2021 for yet another year – and has proved very popular among parents in the past decade.
But what other names have been the number one choice over the past 90 years?
A TikTok video revealed the most popular baby names from decades since the 1920s[/caption] Margaret proved popular for three decades in the UK[/caption]A video on TikTok revealed the most chosen name for girls for each decade since the 1920s.
It turns out that Margaret was popular on both sides of the pond, and was the favourite name in the UK and the US.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Margaret was still the UK’s top name of choice, but this changed in the 1950s to Susan.
Susan also stayed popular for the 1960s, before switching to Sarah in the ‘70s and ‘80s.
In the 1990s, Rebecca was the number one baby name for girls, before this changed to Chloe for the 2000s.
In the 2010s, Olivia is firmly the number one choice, and clearly is still a hit.
Although the video didn’t provide a source for the statistics, Olivia has been verified as the most popular name for the past few years.
On the girls’ list for last year, Olivia, Sophia and Lily were the top three names, while Amelia and Ava completed the top five.
For boys, Muhammad and Noah are top of the list, while Oliver, George and Leo round out the top five.
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Margaret was a heavy-hitter for parents in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s[/caption] In the ’50s, Susan proved a favourite among parents[/caption] Susan was used for numerous baby girls in the 1960s too[/caption] In the ’70s, Sarah was the number one choice for girls[/caption] Sarah was also a popular 1980s name[/caption] Rebecca was a firm favourite in the 1990s[/caption] Chloe rose in popularity in the 2000s[/caption] Olivia has been the number one name for a number of years[/caption]