My wife’s name is Heather. She was named few years before the peak point.
I really like the name Heather, but maybe that’s more to do with her than anything else…
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Not evil, just upper middle class conformity, which to Gen-Xers is a fine line that it didn’t take much narrative work to stretch 
Every generation has its hipsters, yes.
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The name wil continue to be used, might as well wonder why it became popu!ar.
There’s a “Jemima” up the family tree, even the street named after her was renamed. There’s another “Jemima” that married into the family, it can be confusing. But how often do you hear the name name, except for pancakes?
My great, great grandmother was named “Henrietta”, that’s not a common name now, but it got recycled back then, no surprise when families were large but population density was low.
My great, great grandfather remarried, to a “Laurenda”, and the name got reused in subsequent generatiins, including a cousin who died last year.
I don’t think “Heather” (my sister’s name), will fade like some if these names.
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Locklear.
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Hmm… No, then we’d expect to see a rise in the popularity of the name Veronica, the plucky heroine played by a then-uncontroversial Winona Ryder. But alas:
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Why not just call everyone Flora?
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I would imagine the popularity curve comparison for Freddy vs Jason would peak somewhere around 2003.
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It’s a well-established fact that Christian Slater ruined the name Heather for everyone.
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Ah, 1988 - the good old days when a kid bringing a gun to school is no biggie if you only shoot off blanks
Now they’re all named Stacy? 
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Sometime around 2036
Teenager: Hi, I’m Donald
Me: Named for the president or the duck?
Teenager: Ha ha, the cartoon.
Me: ANSWER THE QUESTION!
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But Dr. Donald Duck wasn’t named after the Disney character
When the Duck family named their son 80 years ago they had no hesitation in choosing the name Donald - a nice solid name with no baggage…
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All we need is a far right populist called Heather to kill off the name
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Sent this article to the dozen Heathers that I know.
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The only Heathers I know are in their 60s.
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According to the SSA, the year that “Nigel” was most popular in the US from 1920-today was in 1994, with 0.022% of all male babies being named Nigel.
I think I only know one Heather, and she’s a little younger than my older sister…
