It's funny picking a year on FreeBMD and seeing what names were popular then. At the moment old fashioned names are really popular - I met a little toddler called Margot last week! But I have to think that names like Sylvia, Lisa, Karen, Sharon, etc. might take quite a few generations before they come back into fashion.
In the Victorian era names were pretty creative and different! Lots of ones that haven't come through as 'classics'. My great grandmother's name was Rosina for e.g.
>names like Sylvia, Lisa, Karen, Sharon, etc. might take quite a few generations before they come back into fashion.
Sylvia, Lisa, Karen, Sharon might make a comeback but not Karen due to the recent negative connotation and has been considered to be a pejorative term [1].
Similarly most of the Jesus disciples names become common place, the name Judas is avoided like a plague, since it's considered to be a pejorative term equivalent to traitor based on what he did to Jesus.
In the Victorian era names were pretty creative and different! Lots of ones that haven't come through as 'classics'. My great grandmother's name was Rosina for e.g.