Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Amidst the bell bottoms, funky prints, and free-spirited natures of the 1970s, a crop of baby names saw their height of fame.

A theory shared among baby name trend experts suggests that some names spike in popularity every 100 years. Believers of the "100-year rule" say names that have fallen out of public favor get revived ...

Some names seem so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine they will ever be anything other than everywhere in the popular consciousness. As noted in a May 2025 report from Yahoo! Life, these names ...