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 rare?

00:05What's in a name?

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

00:15Short one-syllable names dominated for girls in the 1950s with names including Joy, Jill, Sue and Lynn topping the list.

00:25While owing to her meteoric fame in the decade, many girls were named Marilyn in honour of the blonde bombshell herself.

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

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

00:54For the boys it was Neville, Lindsay, Terrence, Murray and as a nod to the old blue eyes himself, Frank.

01:01From Frank, Sinatra.

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

01:12While 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 Kylie.

01:25Either named for Kylie Minogue or Kylie Mole, you choose.

01:28So my name used to be Kylie Mologue but I just changed it to Kylie Mole deliberately so no one would think I copied right.

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

01:43Once Australia reached the 1990s you'd be most likely chillaxing in your crib with your mates named Michaela, Amanda, Lisa, Teagan and Renee.

01:53While the guys in your group were probably named Matthew, Sean, Dean, Mark or Trent.

01:59Thank you for that Trent.

02:01If you grew up at the turn of the millennium chances are you knew a lot of girls named Alicia, Laura, Bianca, Katie or Ashley.

02:09And you probably knew a fair few boys named Brayden, Jamie, Jeremy, Justin or Jason.

02:16A big decade for J names.

02:17Hey Joey, Jeffy, Jeremy.

02:19I'm Jamie.

02:21During the 2010s there's been a resurgence of traditional girls names with Mila, Ayla, Elsie, Harriet, Esther and Eleanor topping the list.

02:29Eleanor.

02:30Eleanor, right.

02:31But for the boys born in the 2010s there's been a rise in more creative names including Arlo, Sunny, Vincent, Theo and Wyatt.

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