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Names don't automatically "come back" after 90 to 100 years -- it's just that they become eligible for revival in the eyes of most young parents because they no longer associate them with "old and ugly" but can then see them as "cool and retro". But they still need to fit in with the sound fashions of the times and not have developed any massive negative stereotypes. It will be hard for Bertha to "come back" in the USA because it got stuck with the stereotype of "fat and loud."

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There also are instances where a name "comes back" earlier than expected because it fits in so well with other popular names of the moment. Audrey in the USA in the 1990s, which came back about 20 years earlier than normal, is an example of that.

This message was edited 5/13/2022, 9:48 AM