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I like 'dated' names

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VAVAV00M · 13/04/2013 07:45

I love the name Karen with middle name Claire.

Should I just time travel back 40 years or am I safe to name GrinGrinGrinGrinGrin

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Thirstysomething · 15/04/2013 14:38

The downside of being called Clare is that even though it is a straightforward name, you always have to spell it... I prefer the English spelling Clare, but the fashion was for the French spelling Claire in the seventies.
We have a 35 yr old Jack in our family and when he was named everyone was horrified, most of the comments were along the lines of "you can't call him that, poor boy, its a dogs/old man's name!" ... How times change!!

raisah · 15/04/2013 04:41

Marie Claire?!!

NeoMaxiZoomDweebie · 14/04/2013 19:49

No Martha has passed dated and become classic...like Rebecca or Elizabeth.

Dated means things that our parents rather than our Grannies are called.

Of course...if you're 20 then you're probably thinking that Denise and Sharon are Grannyish names rather than Martha, Mary and Elizabeth!

Queazy · 14/04/2013 19:40

My favourite name is Martha, which is dated but lovely I think Smile

fussychica · 14/04/2013 16:48

I'm mid 50s, class mates were Jane, Julie, Janet, Tina, Denise, Stephen, Richard, Nicky, Andrew & David.
I love Jennie/Jenny from that time too.

Wannabestepfordwife · 13/04/2013 21:08

madamejosephine excellent name same as my 10 month dd

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RowanMumsnet · 13/04/2013 20:00

Hello

This isn't an AIBU so we've moved it to Baby Names.

SarahAndFuck · 13/04/2013 19:27

I know a nine year old Jennifer.

MadameJosephine · 13/04/2013 18:17

My 5 month old DD is Jennifer (I've seen a couple of others on MN but not in RL) but she would have been David if she had been a boy

Grinkly · 13/04/2013 18:06

Has anyone suggested David - it was popular for decades but seems out of fashion now.

raffle · 13/04/2013 18:03

I really love the name Rita, and if I ever have a girl this will be her name. Agree that 70's and 80's names will shortly be seeing a revival.

georgettemagritte · 13/04/2013 18:00

I'm late 30s and the most common girls' names in my classes at school were Sarah, Jane, Alison, Claire/Clare/Clair, Helen, Victoria, Rachel, Caroline, Angela, Julie, Jenny, Katie. For my sisters, a few years younger, they were Katie, Rebecca, Alexandra, Hannah, Beth/Bethan, Helen, Emma, Sophie, Jessica. I don't even think of most of those as dated; in fact in my NCT group recently half of the babies were had names out of this list!

mrsjay · 13/04/2013 17:49

I saw that on itll be all right on the night sarah Grin

invicta · 13/04/2013 17:48

When I was growing up, names such as George, Henry, Lily, Grace, etc were all considered old fashioned and were the names of our grandparents. They're the names in vogue now.

Popular Class names from the 80s includes:
girls : Claire/Clare, Helen, Susan, Rachel, Rebecca, Nicola, Sarah,
Boys: Andrew, Paul, Mark, David, Peter, Daniel, Adam,

SarahAndFuck · 13/04/2013 17:48

Oh dear Grin That's a very unfortunate name.

I love the You Tube clip of Bradley Walsh laughing at the name Fanny Schmeller.

mrsjay · 13/04/2013 17:44

no way poor mrs/miss fiddiling Grin

Wannabestepfordwife · 13/04/2013 17:34

sarah where I used to live years ago there was a fanny fiddling in the graveyard it cracks me up every time. You wouldn't be able to get away with that now

SarahAndFuck · 13/04/2013 17:18

I've been rereading the thread and muttering "Granny was a Fanny" to myself and laughing.

DH is Hmm but knows better than to ask.

mrsjay · 13/04/2013 16:48

we have Margaret as a family name dd2 has it as her middle name my cousins dd has it in hers 2 of my cousins have it as a middle name my aunt is Margaret and my nana was Margaret and my G grandmother was margaret ,

AmandaPayneAteTooMuchChocolate · 13/04/2013 16:40

I am always amazed by the number of people who suggest that currently popular names are 'classic' and names popular when they were growing up are 'dated'. The number of names that people claim are lovely and classic now that would have been dated when I was a child is enormous. People would have found Jack a real old man name when I was a child. And the current 'old lady' names would have been considered monumentally dated.

The only real 'classic' names are the ones that have been continually popular for the last 100 years or so - mostly male names like James and William, but a few female ones like Elizabeth too.

I remain convinced that my own children will be rolling out the names of my parents generation - come back Pauline, Carole, Sue, Malcolm and Colin!

marriedinwhiteagain · 13/04/2013 16:31

Because they know they will bet a punch alliwantisaroomsomewhere. Actually I do really like Judith - a nice sensible, strong name.

SayMama · 13/04/2013 16:28

Happy Margaret is our family name, it goes back many generations! The only problem was I was the first mother to have two daughters and it caused a bit of angst on my part!

SayMama · 13/04/2013 16:26

I like a dated name!

DD1's isnt 'old' (Faye), but her middle name of Margaret is!
DD2's is Laura Carolyn (she's 1) and I'm surprised by how many Lauras I've come accross, it must be in vouge again!

Alliwantisaroomsomewhere · 13/04/2013 16:23

Why does no one EVER say: "I really love Judy"! Grin

quizzywizz · 13/04/2013 16:23

What about Jennifer?

That was way up on the popular names list but I don't know any!