Century-old girls' names are coming back into favor. What does that mean for the top names of the '80s?

What do Mary, Olivia, and Jennifer have in common? They've each had a turn as the most popular name for American girls born over the past 100 years.

Many of today's most popular girls' names borrow heavily from decades—and centuries—past. To show this, Spokeo used data from the Social Security Administration on popular baby names to track the ups and downs of common girls' names in the United States over the past 120 years. In particular, this analysis focuses on how popular names from 100 years ago (1923) and 40 years ago (1983) have fared in the decades since.

Additionally, the analysis focu...