To think names considered trashy 20 odd years ago could reemerge as classy name choices in the late 2020s?

Our great grandchildren will be Gary, Sharon, and Darren ;)

Usually takes more than twenty years. Think more like 60

Not as long as there are people alive who remember them being chavy! These were the chav names of the millennial generation and we are only in our late 30s/early 40s. In the previous generation it was Sharon and Tracy and they still sound chavy now.

Chantal was one of the names my mum liked in 74 when she had me. We live in Spain where "chandal" means track suit, so she dropped that one.
Names come and go in circles. So why not.

I have one of the naffist names around, low rent and very common for my generation. It's a curse. I'm afraid I lack the hope, imagination and vision to see a time in the future when Maddison would ever become classy.

Not much change in the names posh people use over the years. I suspect because posh people don’t have this odd fear of “top ten” names.

Apparently Violet, a name I love, was seen as very naff by my mother’s generation. Thing was she knew elderly many ‘Vi’. I’ve never come across an 80 or 90 something Violet.

I will look forward to a whole new generation of Chardonay's running around the place.

The uber Posh I know are unworried about names & if not going trad are happy to pick cool names like ‘Jessie’ & don’t have any ‘middle class’ squeamishness about it being “Jessica” on the birth cert.

Is it just the one name Chantelle or do you have any other examples?

Anyway, I don’t think it’s changed. Didn’t sound classy 20 years ago and still doesn’t.

I suspect that when my grandchildren arrive, I will be that granny who says “But you can’t possibly call a baby Keith”.

Names outside the classic: Elizabeth, Catherine, Ann, Mary, Caroline, Alice, Isobel, Jane/Joan, etc, come and go as fashions change:

Elsie, Ethel, Mabel, Grace (my gran's era) b 1912

Shirley, Patricia, Sheila/Shelagh, Joyce, Barbara, Anita (my mother's era) b1936

Tracey, Sharon, Debbie, Julie (Amanda, Heather, Emma/Sarah/Mary-Jane (or Ann) at the posher end (my era) b1960

Milly (short for many names), Phoebe, Imogen, Holly/Molly, Lucy (dd's era) 1998

What goes round comes round.

Some of them, maybe.
The ones that just fell out of fashion because they became too popular will likely reemerge; the yoonique, ridiculous and misspelt (like Maddison!) may stay confined to history.
Can’t see Chardonnay, Abbeygayle or Neveah having a big resurgence.

My granny (born 1913) was Violet, “Vi”… glad it’s back after a period of naffness!

I don't actually think of that name as trashy. I know a Chantal and a Chantelle, both in their 40s and extremely professionally impressive, so that's my association!

The cycle for names is much mich longer than 20 years. Maybe Chantelle will be all posh at one point but it’s a long way off. Names like Linda or Terry won’t be used for babies for decades yet. I think Maddison etc might be ready for a rethink in like 70-80 years.

Some could. Courtney and Brittany were nowhere then everywhere then nowhere again so could come back.

Logically, the next fashion should be for 1940's and 50's names.

I think Valerie will be the next Olivia.

I'm mid 40's and went to school with quite a few Chantelle's.... they were generally quite trashy tbh!

In every generation the cool retro names that parents give babies are the names of their great grandparents. The parents of the parents (babies' grandparents) are then horrified because these are the old boring names their own grandparents had.

It's kind of the same with fashion: 20 year old students in town wear the same tall white socks as my 70yo FIL, and I am watching this horrified down to my tiny colourful trainer socks.

I think the truly posh don’t pick names that are out there. Boys are named after kings or apostles. Girls have a bit more freedom but not all that much. “Jane” is a much smarter name than “Persephone”.

I think the truly posh use either Royal names or names from Greek or Roman mythology and that's always been the case. For names to come back around into fashion I thought it was about 100 years, so when the generation that had those names are dying out and the names become unusual again.

I hope not! I mean, I entirely admit that I was horrified when my nephew's name was announced (his name is very much a 90's name, and is a 'naughty' name). While working in schools, I was taken aback coming across occasional children with names like Derek and Yvonne, so I'm not sure that names like Tracy and the likes will come back as "classy".

I think that, for as long as there are generations alive who remember certain names in their hey-day, there will always be a lot of, "Are they REALLY calling their baby that?!"

I think some names will come back
But i think some names are definatley of a time
I cant see Darren , wayne or Lee ever really making a comeback
Or Lorraine , Lyndsey , Keeley either