We hear plenty about the baby names on the rise ― from overnight sensations like Truce to vintage reboots like Marjorie. But far less notice is paid to the ones steadily disappearing from birth certificates, daycare enrollments and, eventually, everyday conversation.
Each year, the parenting website BabyCenter publishes a report on baby names at risk of “going extinct.” According to their data, place names like London and Dallas and y-ending boy names like Grady and Corey are steeply declining.
“I didn’t expect to see boy names that end in -y drop so much in popularity ― especially a name like Harry, which has that nickname-as-a-full name charm that’s popular right now,” Rebekah Wahlberg, a baby name trends specialist at BabyCenter, told HuffPost.
Huxley and Rey also made the list. Other trends are more expected, however ― like the fall of nontraditional spellings with Charleigh, Kori, Everlee, Alivia, Maddison and Emmitt.
“It doesn’t surprise me that unique spellings are falling out of style,” Wahlberg said. “They’ve been the target of a lot of online commentary lately ― plus, having a uniquely spelled name can come with complications. Parents today are thinking about that when deciding how to spell their babies’ names.”
