Are 1980s names due a revival?

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Baby naming seemes to go through cycles so now that the 80s were a generation ago are the names of that decade due a revival?

Michael
Jason
David
Matthew
Christopher
Daniel
Robert
Brian
Brandon
Anthony
Ni cholas
Jonathan
Simon

Tiffany
Crystal
Ashley
Rebecca
Melissa
Jennifer
Sarah
Samantha
Stephanie
Laura
Lisa
Lindsay
Karen
Melanie
Stacy
Diana
Natasha

Anyway, these things are so uneven - people always talk about regional differences on here, but I reckon it's affected by the TV programmes or celebrities different people liked at one time or another (there are some people who will like Cheryl because of Cheryl Tweedy, others who will be put off and they'll all probably choose similar things), by perceived class differences, by the relative ages of people's grandparents (I'm 28 and my nan is only 70 - other people my age could have grandparents in their early 60s or in their 90s!), by the random quirks of fate that bring some people into your lives and not into others. Like I said, we know 6 Toms our age, but I bet there are loads of people who don't and who would consider Tom/Thomas anyway, etc.

So while there are broad trends, I think they are very very broad. I wouldn't bat an eyelid if somebody called their child Tom or Claire now (or Edith or Mabel or Britney!). I said before I reckon it's diversifying anyway.

Plus, one of the previous posters said names tend to go in cycles of 90 years - but how many cycles can there have been! I'd guess that even 270 years ago (3 cycles) names were pretty different, and much more limited, than they are now.

Yes, the choice of names is greater now. I remember reading that 100 years ago c. 90% of kids had names in the top 100, now it's something like 50%. This is especially true for girls' names.

The only 80s names that are going to come back anytime soon are those poor boys who are named after their unimaginative dads.

Oh, and you forgot Donna. Thousands of Donnas were born in the eighties!

Some of the names are timeless, but of the others I think we have a while yet to wait before a revival.