The gender-neutral name Royalty is up 90% in 2015, as are other regal names like Duchess (up 75% from 2014) Reign (up 54%) and Sultan (up 25%). Palace-ready monikers are one of several baby name trends reported by BabyCenter, a pregnancy and parenting online resource.
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Other fascinating trends include a rise in names of Instagram filters (yes, really), names of space and planets, names of characters in the TV show Empire and gender-neutral names, BabyCenter found by crunching numbers on the names of 340,000 babies born in 2015 to moms registered on their website.
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