What will our grandchildren be called?

I think a lot of those girls names on the 1940s list will come back. People are getting sick of all the girly -a and -ee sounding names and if you look at the list a lot of them end with constanant sounds Eg
Margaret
Jean
Susan
Janet
Carol
Irene
Hazel
Diane

I think the next wave of names will be Jean/Mary/Sylvia of which I've heard Jean is already rising in popularity in London. I blame it on Call the Midwife.

Barbara and Wendy will be back I predict. Hopefully not Nigel.

Well, there seems to be a bit of a 'mid-century revival' thing going on at the moment, so I can definitely see some of the post-war Enid Blyton-style names coming around again - things like Anne, Susan, Mary, Judith, Sally, Daphne and Nancy for girls and Richard, Ralph, Laurence, David, Peter, Philip, Robin for boys. (Mind you, some of the names from that era definitely need a bit longer in rehab IMO: Harold/Dennis/Roy/Janice/Brenda etc.)

I remember falling about laughing with my sister when we were little over the idea of baby Edith, baby Maud, baby Ruby etc as these were all my nan's friends' names.
So by that measure it'll be baby Lynne, baby Sue, baby Diane.

I'm also on that list and I'm 47! I love the fact that old fashioned names are coming back. On the radio the other morning was a young boy called Ernest which I think is a brilliant name. I also knew a boy called Albert, also a great name.

Well, an awful lot of girls' names that are cutting edge right now (Ivy, Elsie, Edith etc) were also very popular 100 years ago.

So, fast forward (say) 40 years to 2054, and perhaps 1940s or 1950s names will become popular again:
www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/1944-to-2009.html
www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/1954-to-2009.html

It does seem a bit unlikely, however....

On the other hand, if newly-fashionable/ unusual names or combinations of names take a good long time to become more widely known, perhaps some of these 2012 names will have become wildly popular by the time that grandchildren are born.
www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2013/01/times-and-telegraph-twinsets-trends-and-diminutives-2012.html

And NB TheNight, Derek IS included among them!!! (it's a middle name in the list of longest names, along with a Reginald and a Nixon)

Personally I like the name Giles very much. My little boy has an old-fashioned name, but it was quite common in sixties and seventies, and even before that. But I like it, and I like the fact he is not getting mixed up with somebody else in the whole school year(120 pupils).

Buffy? Willow? Xander? Cordelia? Angel? Giles?

On that list of "people in their 70s" is me! I'm 43!

I have heard of a baby Desmond. That depresses me!

Debbie, Julie, Vicky etc
Gary, Paul, Dave

I hope not Derek. I can't imagine saying here's baby dgs, yes Derek is lovely isn't it

I have no idea,im guessing it will just keep going round and round,but i dont imagine the 70s style names will ever be back,like Tracey,Karen,Sharon and Kevin.

Hopefully the Amelia;s and Oliver's will fade out soon though,im so sick of hearing them,lovely names but they seem so bland now because they are overused.

Brenda
Gaynor
Sheila
Phyllis
Maureen

Terence
Denzil
Ralph
Ian

I think the current old man/old lady trend is all to do with people naming babies after grandparents, so I think the names of our parents:

Peter
Andrew
Christine
Neil
Joan
Jean

And then maybe the next generation will get back into the Kevin / Tracey / Claire / Louise / Mark / Andrew vibe.