According to McCrindle Research, these were names most likely to fill Aussie classrooms in each decade from the 1950s to the 2010s.
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00:00Do you have a popular name or are you constantly having to spell your name because it's so rare?
00:05What's in a name?
00:06Here are Australia's most popular baby names from the 1950s to the 2010s according to Macrindle Research.
00:15Short one-syllable names dominated for girls in the 1950s with names including Joy, Jill, Sue and Lynn topping the list.
00:25While owing to her meteoric fame in the decade, many girls were named Marilyn in honour of the blonde bombshell herself.
00:37Meanwhile commonplace names for boys in the 1950s included Frederick, Larry, Dennis, Victor, Graham and Allen.
00:47Girls names that grew in popularity during the swinging 60s were Ruth, Diane, Rosalyn and Jillian.
00:54For the boys it was Neville, Lindsay, Terrence, Murray and as a nod to the old blue eyes himself, Frank.
01:01From Frank, Sinatra.
01:04Australian classrooms in the 1970s began to be filled with girls named Anne, Janelle, Alison, Wendy.
01:12While the boys were Keith, Warren, Bruce, Nigel and Derek.
01:16Maximum Derek.
01:18Popular girls names in the 1980s included Jodie, Fiona, Joanna, Kelly and of course Kylie.
01:25Either named for Kylie Minogue or Kylie Mole, you choose.
01:28So my name used to be Kylie Mologue but I just changed it to Kylie Mole deliberately so no one would think I copied right.
01:36Meanwhile there were a whole bunch of boys being born named Mark, Wayne, Ian, Dane and Lee.
01:43Once Australia reached the 1990s you'd be most likely chillaxing in your crib with your mates named Michaela, Amanda, Lisa, Teagan and Renee.
01:53While the guys in your group were probably named Matthew, Sean, Dean, Mark or Trent.
01:59Thank you for that Trent.
02:01If you grew up at the turn of the millennium chances are you knew a lot of girls named Alicia, Laura, Bianca, Katie or Ashley.
02:09And you probably knew a fair few boys named Brayden, Jamie, Jeremy, Justin or Jason.
02:16A big decade for J names.
02:17Hey Joey, Jeffy, Jeremy.
02:19I'm Jamie.
02:21During the 2010s there's been a resurgence of traditional girls names with Mila, Ayla, Elsie, Harriet, Esther and Eleanor topping the list.
02:29Eleanor.
02:30Eleanor, right.
02:31But for the boys born in the 2010s there's been a rise in more creative names including Arlo, Sunny, Vincent, Theo and Wyatt.
02:41And now, who's to say what will be the top trends for kids born in the 2020s?