There may be an appetite for old-fashioned names this time around - but who knows what the babies of tomorrow will be called? According to the Office for National Statistics , many solid choices are in danger of going extinct. Interestingly, these aren't super-traditional names - in fact you may very well be called one of these, or know several people whose names are on the list. The Guardian teamed up with the ONS and together they discovered some drastic changes in baby names has taken place between 1996 and 2017 in England and Wales, with just 25 babies being called Craig in 2017. According to academics who've been looking into naming trends, the reason the above names are rapidly declining in popularity is because parents are opting for 'virtue in rarity' – more unusual names with different spellings.

Source: Daily Mirror July 16, 2019 11:19 UTC