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Names which were "trendy" during their initial time of heavy use can just seem historically "normal" to the artistic avant-garde people who revive names from the past around a century later. One recent example is Hazel, which was very "trendy" when it was first introduced (see its really steep rise between 1880 and 1893 in the charts on this site), but which young parents today are enthusiastically reviving, without any knowledge that many people in 1890 would have considered Hazel a very new and questionable invention as a given name.