The Irish baby name, popular in the 1970s, is again in trend

Trends are inherently moody, and sooner or later things that were once popular are no longer fashionable.

This applies to most things, from fashions to music to baby names.

But as always, when enough time has passed, the flood will turn again, and things that have fallen out of fashion will be trendy again. This is certainly the case with this Irish baby girl name that was popular with the parents in the 1970s, and that is now the trend cards.

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The name Bridget, an anchored version of the old Irish name Brighid, became a common Irish-American name for girls in the 1970s. The old Celtic name Bríd means “the sublime”. In Irish mythology, Brigid was the pagan goddess of fire, poetry and wisdom.

The Holy Brigid of Kildare was also a non -profit nun and was finally canonized in the Catholic Church.

According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the nickname slowly decreased in both Ireland and the USA.

Here in Ireland the name Bridget reached 595 girls who gave this name in 1964 and only rose from the 100 most popular girls names in 1998.

According to the US Social Security Administration (SSA), 18,871 babies were called Bridget in the 1970s and ranked in hundreds of top baby names. But since then, the popularity of the name has been strongly decreased when he got back into the charts.

Names follow a 100-year rule

Why Bridgid fell out of fashion just to come back now, it seems that there is a logic behind it.

“One thing that makes a name out of fashion is that it was fashionable for too long” The guard.

Redmond argued that names follow a “100-year rule”.

“It takes a century to get out of fashion to get back into fashion,” said Redmond.

'The Breda variation took its step in 1982 when 49 girls were called Breda. In 2020 Ireland had six girls named Breda. The use of the Brid variation reached its peak in 1980 with 58 girls. In 2020, fewer than three girls were appointed in Ireland Bríd. '

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