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If i had given birth in 1988...

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StellaNova · 05/10/2012 17:26

Highly unlikely, since I was 13 at the time, but if I had, I have just discovered the beautiful 80s names my child would have been saddled with, listed in my diary for the year.Just in case they help anyone still searching for that ultimate name, I share them with you now.

Boys Top Ten - Gary; Mark; Paul; Tony; Scott; James; Ricky; Bobby; Jody; Shane

Girls Top Ten - Samantha; Sara; Sophia; Sandra; Charlotte; Charlene; Christelle; Killashandra Shock Blush; Dawn; Michelle

Ah, little Charlene Sandra Dawn and Shane Jody Scott. It was not to be.

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StellaNova · 07/10/2012 11:07

Hassled - they weren't the top ten! They were my top ten! I was clearly a very odd 13 year old.

Killashandra was after the character in the book Crystal Singer by Anne Mccaffery. I think I liked the named Crystal and got confused.

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ellathefox · 06/10/2012 22:28

Is your name Killashandra littlewhitewolf? Grin

IWipeArses · 06/10/2012 22:20

I was born in 78 and there were 2 Charlenes in my year.

I remember my friend loving the name Bethany-Rachel in 1988.
I like Colin. Blush I really liked The Secret Garden.

Thomas was a popular name that year I think. There were about three lads born around that time in one class I knew at college.

GhouliaYelps · 06/10/2012 20:24

Lance - the immediate thought is it's what you do to a boil

Inneedofbrandy · 06/10/2012 20:19

No ones said my name yet. It is really common at least 5 of us in school, and I'm born in 88 not 85 or 82 actual 88 and no ones said it.

CremeEggThief · 06/10/2012 20:02

I know about eight Charlenes and one Sharleen (from Ireland originally), but they were all born between 1978 (my birth year) and 1983.

picnicbasketcase · 06/10/2012 20:00

Yep, I knew someone who said they wanted a boy and a girl and they would be either Scott and Kylie or Charlene and Jason.

Hassled · 06/10/2012 19:58

I had children either year of that and they have nice, normal sort of names which wouldn't sound odd in any current playground, as do all their friends. I'm amazed that those were the top ten - I'm sure much of it would have been swayed by the whole Neighbours obsession.

SecretNutellaFix · 06/10/2012 19:56

At about that sort of stage my prospective children were going to be Sophie and Joshua.

VivaLeBeaver · 06/10/2012 19:53

I liked Paxton for a girl when I was about 12.

Avalicious1980 · 06/10/2012 19:39

I used to go out with a lad called Jody and he HATED his name as people always assumed he was a girl!

insancerre · 06/10/2012 19:35

DS was born in 1989 and if he had been a girl he would have been Charlotte, which is on the op's list.

LittleWhiteWolf · 06/10/2012 19:31

I was born in 1985 and my name is on your list OP.

GoSakuramachi · 06/10/2012 19:27

Is killashandra after the song or the town?

rockinastocking · 06/10/2012 19:25

Colette or Simone for girls, Luke or Lance for boys.

Luke only passable one, really.

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StellaNova · 06/10/2012 19:22

I mean "70s names really I suppose" Duh.

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StellaNova · 06/10/2012 19:21

I probably titled the thread wrong; they were the names I would have picked in the 80s, rather than "popular 80s names", although many of them do strike me as being quite 80s.

But I guess I am thinking of "what people I knew/ fancied were called in the 80s" rather than "what people were calling babies in the 80s" - most of my girl names (apart from Killashandra, ahem) were girls of my own age in my class, apart from Charlene which was obviously my Kylie tribute. So 80s names really, I suppose.

I knew boys of my age called all of those names, apart from Jody, which was a boy in a ghost story I read once, and Gary, which I liked because of a one-off character on Star Trek Blush

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Narked · 06/10/2012 19:14

The girls names I'd have chosen in 1988 would have been Ella or Chloe. Then they became ridiculously overused.

The boys name would have been Bobby Blush

WhatWouldVegansDo · 06/10/2012 01:11

The boys' name I liked in 1988 is the name I gave my son when he was born in 2010! :)

LiviaAugusta · 05/10/2012 23:25

Had I had a child in the late 80s I think they'd have been called Connor or Charlton if a boy and Summer or Liberty if a girl. The only name I vaguely like out of all of them now is Liberty but wouldn't use it. Don't know why I chose those names or why it was even something I thought about as I'd always assumed I wouldn't have children. Glad I waited to have children, hope I still like their names in twenty-odd years!

margerykemp · 05/10/2012 18:43

I think they're better than the old lady names that are popular now.

Give me a Charlene over a Lily-mae any day.

Kveta · 05/10/2012 18:36

I liked Vladimir or Godiva at that age. As one does.

which is why my DC should think themselves bloody lucky to have the most common names of their generation!

insanityscratching · 05/10/2012 18:35

Ds was born in early 89 of his friends born 88/89 there is 1 Scott, 1 James and 1 Ricky. Daniel was by far the most popular name Dean, Kyle and Adam also common in his school year

CakeBump · 05/10/2012 18:18

I remember being very fond of the name Jessica around that time, and I chose Lucy as my confirmation name in 1989.

I was 10/11 years old though so no danger of children of my own then!

Boggler · 05/10/2012 18:13

If I'd had a baby in 1988 I would have called her Holly, as it was I got a puppy called Holly. I knew someone who had a Crystal - I think Dynasty had an effect.

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