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Shhh. The latest season of Bridgerton has dropped on Netflix, but our family hasn’t had the time to watch it yet, thanks/no thanks to all this lovely weather. No spoilers, please.
Set during the Regency Period, the series is rife with parasols, dancing and duels. Oh, and a little romance, we suppose.
The folks over at Preply had Bridgerton on their minds when they dug into Statistics Canada data to cross-reference some of those old-fashioned names. We can’t imagine why Whistledown, arguably the protagonist of the show, didn’t appear on the list. Perhaps it’s too difficult to shorten?
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Charlotte, like the queen herself, came out on top, with 1,475 little Canadian Charlottes born in 2022. There is no way to determine whether the children were named for the queen, for real-life nine-year-old Princess Charlotte, for everyone’s favourite wise spider or because the parents wanted to nickname their kid Charlie.
Other popular names that appeared on Bridgerton and birth certificates were Alice (786), Rose (593) and Penelope (422). The top nine were rounded out with Eloise (365), Daphne (116), Genevieve (79), Francesca (56) and Philippa (12).
Bridgerton names on the other side of the gender divide are pleasantly simple: Jack (1,186), Henry (870), George (280), Colin (123), Will (35), Benedict (34), Anthony (34) and Gregory (27).
If you were one of the people who named their child Jack or Charlotte because you love the name and have no idea what this whole Bridgeton business is about, rest easy: By the time they’re in elementary school, no one will remember all the hoopla over one TV series.
There are more books, movies and series set during the Regency, so if the era rings true for you but the names don’t, you can always turn to Jane Austen or Lord Byron for inspiration. Darcy is delightfully gender-neutral.
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