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Kate to hit top spot

Dec 2010

If previous trends are anything to go by, Royal Wedding fever will see Kate soar in popularity as a name for baby girls this year, according to new research. Aussie family history website Ancestry.com.au looked at 230 million birth and marriage records dating from 1837, and found that the names Victoria, Elizabeth, and Diana all enjoyed huge increases in popularity in the years corresponding to the weddings of British royals of the same name. With Kate Middleton set to marry Prince William, and Kate and its variations already popular, Prep classrooms look like being full of Kates in 2016!



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