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I've actually met very few Momokos... Perhaps a bunch of them just congregated where you are... Ai is more common now than it might have been in the 80s... Aiko is spotty, but around... as you said, strongly influenced by the princess... Though the number of ko names started going in swift decline some time in the 80s... When I taught jr. high around the turn of the century, ko names were rather sparse, but still there (kid would have been born in late 80s with the youngest born in '90. The 70s and 80s had lots of girls named Megumi.
Haruka was pretty common then too.
Had a neighbour named just Kana.
Miki and Mika were common for a few decades.
Yuko and Tomoko were common in the 70s (actually, Tomoko seems to span generations).
Sayaka was common in the late 80s.
Asuka, Saki, Daiki, Yuka, Yumi (was popular before that as well), Daichi, Azusa, Kazuki and Kazuya were quite common.
Lots of e and mi endings of names at that time.
Just plain Aya was excessively abundant in the late 80s birthing time.
I know 1 Ayano, but she wasn't 1 of my students. I think the no endings are a bit more common in the past decade... as are ri and na endings.
Hitomi seemed kinda popular among little girls around the turn of the century... and yes, Sakura started becoming quite popular and overused too. On an adult, it's kinda rare, but on little kids, abundant... same w/ Aoi.
Taiga (tie-ga) and Tomoya are pretty common now on little boys.
Kouhei (kohay), Takashi and Takeshi are among those not on this list that were also somewhat common around then).
Satoshi's a good standard as well.
Yuki for a girl and Yuuki for a boy were also quite common among my students.
I actually have met very few gals named Akane, considering its popularity.
Yes, the ryo and ryu pronunciations are unusual to the En. speaker's ear because y is NEVER a vowel in Jpns. (remember that as people butcher the prn. of places like Tokyo and Kyoto... makes me cringe to hear them said that way... the consonant cluster of ky is WAY easier to say than the consonant cluster of ry)

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Here are the names from some of my classes:
Boys:
Akihiko
Akihiro
Akiteru
Asataro
Daichi (die-chee)
Daigo
Daiki 2
Eisuke (ay-skay)
Eito
Hideyuki (he-day-yu-kee)
Hikaru (can be on a girl or boy)
Hiroshi 3 (more common among old men, but still around)
Hirotoshi
Junya 2 (joonya)
Katsuki 2
Katsumitsu
Kazuhiro 2
Kazumitsu
Kazushige (kazusheegay)
Kazutaka
Kazuya 2
Keisuke (prn'd kay-skay)
Kosuke (ko-skay)
Kota 2
Masafumi
Masaki
Masaru
Masashi
Masataka
Mashio
Mikiya
Mitsumasu
Ryota
Ryotaro
Satoshi
Seigo (saygo)
Seiji (say-jee)
Shinji 2
Shingo
Shinpei (sheenpay)
Shogo
Shoji
Shoki
Shota
Taichi (tie-chee)
Takahiro 2
Takaya
Takeshi
Takuro
Tomoki
Tomonori 2
Toraji (rare, I suspect)
Toshiki
Tsukasa
Wataru
Yamato
Yoshihiro
Yoshimitsu
Yuuji
Yuuki 3
Yusuke 2 (yu-skay)

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Girls:
Ai (I)
Akane
Ami (rhymes w/ Tammy)
Asuka (kinda common)
Aya
Ayaka
Azusa 2
Chihiro
Chiho
Eri 2
Eriko
Fumika
Futami (rare name)
Haruka 3
Haruna
Hiroe (Hero-eh)
Kaori (pretty common for some years... esp. then, but def. around for a few decades before as well)
Kayo
Kei (prn. Kay)
Kie (kee-eh)
Kokoro
Konomi (rare)
Kumiko
Kyoko (remember y is always a consonant in Jpns... more common name in previous generation)
Madoka
Mafuyu (rare)
Marino
Masumi
Miharu
Miho 2
Mika 2
Miki 3
Misa
Misato
Miwa
Miyuki
Mizuki (seems more popular among little kids now)
Nagisa (had a few of these)
Nami
Natsumi
Nozomi
Risa 2
Sachi 2
Saho
Saki 2
Sayaka 3
Shiho
Shiori (had a few of these... seemed kinda popular among some of the younger ones)
Shizuka
Shoko
Tae (ta-eh)
Yuka
Yuri 2
Yuriko
Yukari