Just like fashion there seems to be a cycle with names. They wax and wane in popularity.
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For instance, in NSW in 2021 the names Matilda, Levi and Theodore have muscled into the state's top 10 most popular baby names.
Amelia and Oliver remain the most popular names for the state's newest residents, as recorded by the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
There were 90,059 babies born in NSW last year, 14 more than the 90,045 who arrived in 2020.
Olivia, Charlotte, Isla, Ava, Mia, Grace, Chloe, Ella and Matilda joined Amelia as the most popular girls names of the year.
For boys, Oliver was followed by Noah, Jack, Henry, William, Leo, Lucas, Theodore, Levi and Thomas.
The names Liam, James, Sophia and Zoe were nudged out of the top spots they held last year.
Parents have 60 days to register their newborn, which can be done for free online.
Test your own name's popularity
A volunteer project in the United Kingdom has tracked names over 177 years.
The UK Local BMD project includes more than 140,000 unique names from seven geographically diverse counties. The data is derived from 22 million birth records. Check yours here:
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