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Names that aren't making a comeback

201 replies

steppemum · 22/05/2014 22:04

Erasmus

Grin

came across this today, Charles Darwin's grandfather. Just thought, you aren't likely to see that one on a baby names thread.

reminds me of a Lord Peter Whimsy novel where the characters in the village are called Obediah, Jeremiah, Hepzibah and so on.

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vindscreenviper · 23/05/2014 10:00

Leopard?

Is that an auto-correct of Leonard or Leopold, I've never heard of anybody with the first name of Leopard.

OldVikingDudeHidMyTubeSocks · 23/05/2014 08:54

Hairylegs. I'm a Jacqueline and have only just turned 30 this year!

DownstairsMixUp · 23/05/2014 08:53

Tracey, Sharon, Carol are pretty uncool names. I think the traditional flowery names like Daisy and Violet would always make a comeback but can't see it for them names, they don't sound nice either, kind of like the female equals of Keith, Malcolm and Alan.

sonniebonnie · 23/05/2014 08:45

Burga, I also think that David and Quentin are great classics (we have one, actually Smile). Don't like the spelling of Quintin though.

rugbychick · 23/05/2014 08:20

I had a work colleague with the first name Xerxes! He went by his second name!

ODearMe · 23/05/2014 08:08

Trevor
Keith
Karen
Kevin
Sharon
Tracey
Brenda

SpottieDottie · 23/05/2014 07:27

I know 4 Daisies

burgatroyd · 23/05/2014 07:22

Baby Dave. That's what I'd like to see.

Delphiniumsblue · 23/05/2014 07:19

David is a classic name.

burgatroyd · 23/05/2014 07:18

I love David, Nadia. If I had a dd it would have been top choice along with Tony. But I've not met a baby David.

NadiaWadia · 23/05/2014 07:17

David is still nice, IMO, and doesn't really fit with the others on your list, burga. I think it's a bit more 'classic'.

NadiaWadia · 23/05/2014 07:15

Well no, Dilly I don't blame you, and probably your nan wouldn't have expected it either. But apparently when Gladys first become popular people thought it was cool and exotic!

burgatroyd · 23/05/2014 07:12

Norbert!!! Curly, thats genius. Please someone name their baby Norbert.

Egbert, Beauregard, Hortense, Fanny, Quintin, David, Gavin, Lindsay

DillydollyRIP · 23/05/2014 07:11

My nan was a Gladys.
I have 2 Dd's but haven't used her name for either of them.

DillydollyRIP · 23/05/2014 07:10

Pamela
Patricia
Tracey
Sharon
Louise
Janet

Wayne
Derrick
Paul
Grenville

NadiaWadia · 23/05/2014 07:09

It's funny how Gladys never made a comeback along with all the other OAP names that are so popular now, like May, Elsie, Florence, Wilfred, Arthur etc. Not that I like it, but then I don't like most of those either.

It was so popular once - think it was the Lilly, Ella or Isabella of it's day!

Delphiniumsblue · 23/05/2014 07:08

There is a theory that there is an 80-100 yr gap for a comeback which is why you get Winifred, Ruby, Elsie, Alfie etc now.
In about another 20 years it is quite likely that names you rule out like Pamela, Linda, Nigel, Colin etc will be back.
If people can choose Ivy then anything can reappear!
Probably the only ones to rule out are those with connotations like Adolf or Jezabel.

Fullpleatherjacket · 23/05/2014 07:04

Everard

Gaylord

ScrambledSmegs · 23/05/2014 06:59

I don't know. I figure that even the most Olde Worlde names will become popular in certain enclaves of pretension Islington. I met a Bede at Baby Bounce three years ago. In the last year or so I've met a couple more newborn Bedes. And a Boudika (sic).

But for a name that DEFINITELY won't be making a comeback, I give you...Cnut.

Artandco · 23/05/2014 06:47

Oh and if we had a girl Nora and Margot were too name choices which I suppose are slightly old fashioned

Artandco · 23/05/2014 06:46

These are all very common names now here. In the under 5s alone I know:
Agatha
Georgina
Rufous
Micheal
Leopard
Dorothea
Wilfred
Edgar
Rita
Hipolyte
Philip

Rivercam · 23/05/2014 06:35

Pamela

Josiah

Cuthbert

Gregory

Terence

Leopard

Sonia

Michelle

Reginald

Wilbur

Wilf

Rodney

JimbosJetSet · 23/05/2014 06:26

I like some of the 70s and 80s names! Simon, Scott, Douglas and Paul were the names we were choosing from for DS last year (and we went with one of them).

Karen, Louise, Hannah, Claire and Kathleen were the names we chose from for DD.

Our DCs clearly have names that are just ahead of their time at the moment Wink

Hairylegs47 · 23/05/2014 05:35

Jacqueline/Jaclyn - I have yet to meet one under 30.
Hilda
Susan
Pamela
Patty
Elaine
Joan
Judith

Kevin
Kenneth
Gaylord
Allan
John
Roy
Zedikiah - though I love that name.

sleepywombat · 23/05/2014 04:42

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