What will our grandchildren be called?

cassette

Susan, Christine, Anne, Melanie
Steve, Andrew, Paul, John

I hope for a granddaughter Natalia
I also hope for Andrew, Ed, Valerie, or even Vlad

100 year old names round about when my children might have kids will be names from my parents' generation. So Christine, Marion, Jeanette, June, Martin, Peter, Christopher. That sort of era

Someone mentioned early on in the thread that they would love to see a return of Matthew and Peter. I'm not sure Matthew has ever gone away. There are at least three I can think of in my dd's primary school year of 60 children

If my children were to have their own children in say, 25 years time. (2039) The baby names that were popular in 1939 will be the old lady chic names from 100 years ago.

Thinking of my mum, aunts/my mum's friends so:

Maureen, Sybil, Sheila, Margaret, Eleanor, Susan.

Mermaidavenue - we may THINK Susan and Christine are awful now, but our children will probably think they are just great and retro!

I am old enough to remember William and Harry being born and named, and thinking how what old names they were given (my grandad ws William). Thirty years later and they are the norm and are lovely names, along with others like them.

The 60s and 70s names, but not abbreviated - Caroline, Jennifer, Melanie, Marianne, Suzanne, Louise, Nicola, Helen, Yvonne, Julie/Julia, Elaine, Jacqueline, Catherine, Christine, Fiona, Belinda, Sarah, Karen, Laura, Joanne, Stephanie, Patricia, David, Nicholas, Michael, Richard, Robert, Stephen, Jonathan, Andrew, Paul, Mark.

I wanted to call DD Caroline but the then DH objected

Near, Shirley is lovely

I love Joan too. Also Maud.

My eldest DS (5) is John. I love, love, love it still. I would have called DS2 John too if I could have!

I love the simplicity of it. In his school you cannot move for some of the other traditional names (William, Thomas etc) but as yet we have never met another John (who is a child). He is very proud of his name being different and so am I.

My mum is Valerie and we will use it as a middle name when our first DD is born in August. I cannot abide 'Val' so don't want it as a first name. First name we will go with Agatha, after my love of Poirot and Miss Marple. As I said on another thread, I love Jilly Cooper so I will be trying to go with Taggie as a nick name!

I also love Peter and Matthew and would love to see a return of these names.

Nancy and Florence are popular now because of D Cameron
my friend and I have one each - we were aghast to have anything in common with our Dear Leader

I'm 25 years older than anyone else I've ever met with my name. Proper Victorian lay-dee or Edwardian housemaid's name, but you hear it everywhere now.

There's a well known poster who called her dd Shirley (must be about 3 now). The more I think of that name the prettier it becomes.

I predict all men will be called Fred or John and all women will be called Kate and Susan.

(Not really I'm just hoping my kids names don't all do a ruby!)

Seriously I just think its going to be the names we have or our parents have now

I know a baby Teddy and a Reggie Ray.

My MIL's name is Vera. She has hated it all her life and chooses to use her middle name for anything non-official. I shall inform her is it Russian chic.

DP wants to call our first DS Claude.

I said no.

I know a 17 year old and she is into all the 'classic' names - Marie, Marilyn, Elizabeth, Florence etc.,

She works with an Ernie (presumably Ernest?), Anita and others. However at school there are more of your common Hannahs and Sophies.

Dd2 16 has said her pfb if a boy will be called
Gefforey (sp) the one from rainbow !!

The girls ones.

I like the 1940s names Squidgy mentioned above.

I think Marjorie is a pretty name, but only if I think of the name itself and not my aunt's friend. Our children will never have known an old lady Marjorie, so I can see it coming back.

More unisex names and surnames as first names - more popular in the US at moment:

Bailey, Harper, Drew, Blake, etc for girls

Ryder, Harrison, etc for boys

The above may become quite chavvy,so i think the middle classes will go for 1940's names:

Margot, Daphne, Joan (love it), Enid, Ursula, Audrey,

Reginald (I have heard of a baby Reggie!)
Sidney, Roger

for girls i think alot of the names ending in a may be replaced by plainer/simpler versions eg
louise
helen
anne
susan

also names out of use now eg
jane /janet
fiona
alison
linda
caroline
joanne
linda
sandra
sally
jackie

hyphenated names may be seen as trendy and cool and not as castigated as they are now

so
sara-jane
sally-anne

perhaps diana will be usable again as it will no longer be associated with the late princess .

for boys maybe a move away from old testament names and back to new testament names
eg
peter
mark
simon
paul
john

also name that seem really boring and middle aged now could be on trend eg
kevin
derek
brian
david
nigel
jeremy
martin

we may even see the occasional Elvis and kermit and bart as people forget the characters that would prevent our generation using them

maybe in years to come instead of striving for a unique name that makes a child stand out from the crowd parents will be looking for names that allow their offspring to be less conspicuous on the internet or it's future equivalent . Maybe many children will have less popular first name enabling with a very popular second name for internet use ?

i also wonder whether there will be many more cross cultural names such as polish,arabic and chinese names in popular usage .