While the trend for adding a hyphen has remained steady across the pond, it hasn't really caught on here...until now that is.

 

When the Office of National Statistics released their annual baby names list recently, Amelia sat pretty at the top of the most popular girls' names while Oliver was crowned king of the boys.

 

However, the lists also raised another emerging trend; the rise of the double-barrelled first name in UK-born girls.

 

According to research done by the Sunday Telegraph, more than 1,200 girls born in the UK had a double-barrelled name bestowed¹ upon them last year, nearly five times the amount that were registered in 2000.

 

While boys names have also seen a similar trend, it has been on a lesser² scale; just 328 boys were given two first names in 2014.

 

For the girls, floral-inspired names such as Lily-May or Amelia-Rose have surged in popularity as parents look to differentiate³ their daughters from the sea of Lilys and Amelias already out there.

 

Rose seems to be among the most popular name to be used with a hyphen; the Telegraph found that last year 245 variations of it were given with 225 of those coming in the form of Amelia-Rose.

 

Other, more American-inspired variations included Dakota-Rose and Destiny-Rose.

 

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