Online casino, Slingo, has researched baby names that could be going out of fashion in years to come.
Names such as Scarlett, Holly and Jack are all included in the list.
It used the ONS dataset, ‘Baby names in England and Wales, 1996 to 2020’, to find the baby names from 2016 to 2021 for its research.
Slingo has assessed the names from the Top 100 that could be going out of fashion after dropping in popularity in the last five years. Number one is the most popular.
Ever wondered how popular your name is or if it’ll ever stop being used for newborn babies?
Here are the forenames that could be decreasing in popularity in years to come.
Baby names that are becoming more unpopular
Here’s a list of the biggest consistent fallers in the Top 100 from 2016 to 2021, with number one being the most popular.
Each name, its rank in 2016/17 and 2020/2021 are also listed plus the number of places it has fallen between the years, in this format: Name – rank 2016/2017, rank 2020/2021, ranks fallen.
- Jayden – 61, 98, down 37
- Harvey - 54, 86, down 32
- Scarlett – 18, 50, down 32
- Lilly – 60, 91, down 31
- Georgia – 54, 84, down 30
- Abigail – 58, 87, down 29
- Holly – 52, 81, down 29
- Jessica – 8, 37, down 29
- Amber – 55, 83, down 28
- Riley – 40, 67, down 27
- Lucy – 43, 69, down 26
- Chloe – 23, 46, down 23
- Lola – 42, 65, down 23
- Samuel – 24, 47, down 23
- Daniel – 28, 50, down 22
- Ellie – 48, 67, down 19
- Heidi – 76, 95, down 19
- Elizabeth – 38, 56, down 18
- Hannah – 57, 75, down 18
- David – 43, 60, down 17
- Dylan – 38, 55, down 17
- Charles – 72, 88, down 16
- Toby – 46, 62, down 16
- Imogen – 37, 52, down 15
- Jacob – 5, 19, down 14
- Emily – 3, 15, down 12
- James – 12, 24, down 12
- Sophie – 14, 26, down 12
- Alice – 17, 27, down 10
- Harrison – 32, 41, down 9
- William – 11, 20, down 9
- Charlotte – 12, 20, down 8
- Ella – 9, 16, down 7
- Edward – 23, 29, down 6
- Harry – 2, 8, down 6
- Jack – 4, 10, down 6
- Eva – 30, 35, down 5
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