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Do you know a baby Nigel?

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ButtonBoo · 12/11/2012 16:44

Or a baby Malcolm? Baby Barry? Baby Kevin?

Just thinking about baby names you don't see very often now. Lots of retro/traditional names coming round again...Albie, Eric, Walter, Henry etc but will we ever see a resurgence of this middling names?!!

Baby Bernard anyone???

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legalalien · 13/11/2012 12:10

I think all the Alans swarm in Scotland and study engineering. When I was in nz we used to joke that you couldn't negotiate a telecoms network contract without a scots engineer called Alan. All the big players had one.

squoosh · 13/11/2012 11:51

I'm amazed at all these Nigels of all ages emerging. I just couldn't do it to a child although it's nice that have each other for support.

LtEveDallas · 13/11/2012 11:49

I know a 7 year old Nigel and I recently met a 6 month (or so) baby called Brian - It does seem very strange, but I suppose that is unfair. Looks like 70's names are coming back...

squoosh · 13/11/2012 11:49

and at 'Nicola's Room' sign on the dog's bedroom door. Really sweet but I dread to think how these elderly people who love their pets so much handle it when the cat or dog dies.

Arithmeticulous · 13/11/2012 11:49

I want a Bernard. Just so I can constantly say "Not NOW, Bernard"

Anyone owning up to a Baby Roy?

insanityscratching · 13/11/2012 11:46

My nephew is named Nigel, he's 19 now, there was never another with the same name all through school and college.

squoosh · 13/11/2012 11:44

Lenny and Reggie are excellent names.

I'd like to meet a baby Sandra and a baby Geoff.

Chelvis · 13/11/2012 11:42

I know 1 YOs called Reginald and Leonard. Baby Lenny and Baby Reggie. I'd like to meet a Baby Alan or Denise

Ham69 · 13/11/2012 07:49

A cat called Samantha is fantastic! My friend growing up had a cat called Colin and a dog called Tina! And I worked somewhere once where, on a home visit to a single older man, my colleague noticed a room where his dog slept with 'nicola's room' on the door!

seventyeight · 13/11/2012 07:22

Oh I also know a baby Brian

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ButtonBoo · 13/11/2012 05:52

Horses called Kevin,, cats called Samantha and babies called Clifford and Derek.

Made my Monday!

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legalalien · 13/11/2012 03:30

What about baby graeme?

Jojoba1986 · 13/11/2012 02:18

I know a baby Nigel who's just a few months old. Personally I'm really not keen - I thought the person who told me the name was joking!

scentednappyhag · 13/11/2012 01:31

I love Derek, Sid and Ian... I feel I might be out of my depth on this thread

seventyeight · 13/11/2012 00:05

David would-be first choice but DH won't allow it

I know a baby Ian.

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Fuchzia · 12/11/2012 23:05

Met a friend of a friend on a train and was chatting. She kept talking about her son who was two or so referring to him as 'Nigel' I was nodding and smiling but thinking it was a really weird name for a two year old. However, over the noise of the train I eventually realised she was saying Elijah.

Clary · 12/11/2012 23:02

I know an 11yo Kevin actually.

I think there is a US connection tho which explains it.

Names like Nigel, Barry, Trevor etc are not of the same era as Walter and Albert. They are my dad's era, not my grandads, and will be trendy again in about 25 years' time.

JennyPiccolo · 12/11/2012 22:56

'We need to talk about Kevin' would have been very different.

nancerama · 12/11/2012 22:43

I knew a horse called Kevin. Kevin is no name for a horse.

AyeWhySWIM · 12/11/2012 22:37

I have taught a couple of Kenneth's and quite a few Keith's in the North East over the past few years.

JennyPiccolo · 12/11/2012 22:36

Button- I knew a cat called Samantha. Cracks me up every time I think about it.

MaryAstor · 12/11/2012 22:34

I love Bernard. Possibly because it's the name of Alfie's best friend in the Shirley Hughes books, and he's great.

memphis83 · 12/11/2012 22:30

I know a baby Graham and a baby Doug.

sparkle12mar08 · 12/11/2012 22:24

My two ds's middle names are Malcolm and David. Does that count?!

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