Lots of Olivers and Charlottes will be employed in the 2040s
Australian hiring managers and recruiters in the 2040s will be seeing many candidates called Oliver and Charlotte, according to McCrindle’s recently released Top 10 baby names for the past year.
Oliver has been crowned the top baby boy name for the 12th year in a row. The other nine names on the list of top ten boys’ names have stayed relatively consistent, with some minimal movement among the names.
Charlotte has been the most popular girl’s name for ten of the past 15 years. The top ten names for girls have seen more variation than the boys’ list.
McCrindle’s press release states, “Now that the entirety of Generation Alpha has been born (2010-2024), we know that Oliver and Charlotte are the top names across the generation. In fact, there are 30,818 Gen Alphas with the name Oliver and 24,256 Gen Alphas with the name Charlotte.”
Image source: McCrindle
Theodore and Hazel are two names that have experienced incredible growth in popularity among Generation Alpha, according to McCrindle. Both names were ranked in the 90s in 2010 and have increased to a top 10 position today. Other notable girls’ names that have seen steady increase in popularity since 2010 include Billie, Millie, Elsie, Daisy, Eleanor, Mila, Evelyn, Harper and Ellie.
Significant rioses in popularity were also recorded for Arthur, Arlo, Theodore, Muhammad, Harvey, Hudson, Archer and Austin.
McCrindle predicts local employers in the 2050s will be hiring lots of women named Millie, Maeve, Remi, Eden, Delilah, Eliana, Margot and Lottie, and many men called Beau, Theo, Ezra, Miles, Luke, Billy, Louie and Roman.
I note the names of the boys I grew up with: David, Philip, Greg, Andrew, Craig, Scott, Chris, Darren, Peter, Michael, Nick, and Paul, are not mentioned in any upward trending list.
And if a major character on Friends can’t reignite the interest in 1990s parents calling their baby boy Ross, then there’s little likelihood of any employed men in the 2040s and beyond having my first name. ☹
