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Popular names of the next decade: predictions

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PetersonPeterson · 14/09/2015 20:40

Names that you think are on the up and will continue to climb the name charts. A few that I would guess might:
Beatrice/Bea
Isla
Florence
Margot
Freya
Might have got that wrong! I'm sure there are also loads more. Just keep hearing them on new babies or names that people like for babies.

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RedToothBrush · 18/09/2015 13:30

For being swamped: Ted, Teddy, Theodore, Edward.
Eli & Elijah too. Reuben maybe as well.

oh and more of a Violet rash for girls.

DoloresLandingham · 17/09/2015 21:47

Karen
Jean
Peggy
Patricia
Mary
Joan

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featherandblack · 17/09/2015 19:35

Imogen is really on the up.

Onedirectionarestillloved · 17/09/2015 18:44

I think for boys surname type names will increase in popularity such as Taylor, Tyler, Jackson. Also names such as Charles, George, Henry.

For girls flower names eg Poppy, Lilly, Rose and old lady chic Enid, Elsie, etc.

I think in around 40 years names like Deborah, Michelle ans Steven will be popular.

mathanxiety · 17/09/2015 18:37

My parents couldn't agree on a name for me, back in the 60s. Mum liked Suzanne. Dad insisted it had to be Susannah if that was the direction they were to take. Mum thought Susannah hopelessly old fashioned. I ended up with another name altogether, suggested by an aunt. I am not exactly grateful to her. I wish she had backed dad.

Pandora978 · 17/09/2015 18:20

Oh for names already in the top 100 I would say:

Ivy, Willow, Martha, Sophia/Sofia (will definitely be top 10, if not top 5 soon), Elsie will be top 20, Eliza and Nancy. I'm surprised Lila/Lyla isn't top 100 yet. Oh and I predict Annie, Maggie, Iris and Penelope will be in the top 100.

For boys - Arthur, Stanley, Frederick, Albert, Rory, Isaac, Teddy, Elijah, Theo/Theodore, Dexter, Jackson and Austin.

BertrandRussell · 17/09/2015 16:30

You will. That's what names do.

My mother was talked out of using her favourite literary name for me because it was wierd and old fashioned and ugly and I'd get teased.

So I'm not called Emily......

squoosh · 17/09/2015 16:26

Susan is lovely. Barry...............not so much.

DontDrinkandFacebook · 17/09/2015 16:22

I can't cope in a world where babies are called Sharon and Trevor.

BertrandRussell · 17/09/2015 16:19

Brian
Kevin
Colin
Trevor
Barry
Lance
Gavin
Gareth
Tracy
Sharon
Marie
Christine
Sheila
Susan
Angela

You heard it here first.

CakeRattleandRoll · 17/09/2015 16:13

Next 'everywhere' names:

Still some 'old-fashioned' names:
Evelyn
Matilda
Ivy
Elsie
Eliza
Nancy

Theodore
Peter

And some modern/surname names:
Darcey/Darcie
Harper

Logan
Harrison
Roman
Carter
Parker
Max

RedToothBrush · 17/09/2015 12:30

Next Olivia / Amelia?

Easy peasy.

Watch Erin & Esme. If they don't hit the top 10 I'll be amazed.

Sophronia · 17/09/2015 11:40

I think some of these could be the next Ava/Amelia/Olivia...

Maya
Ada
Lyla/Lila
Evelyn
Myla/Mila
Eliza
Anna
Esme
Thea
Bella
Ivy
Orla
Clara
Luna
Aria
Cora
Elsa

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PetersonPeterson · 17/09/2015 11:18

Thanks, all very interesting. I don't think I was very clear in my OP- I kind of meant names that would keep growing in popularity over the next decade, or even next few years. So there are quite a few names that I think will continue to become more popular and are already within the top 100 now. Personally I don't think that there will be a huge shift in naming fashion for a while- if you look back over the last 100 years, the style of name seems to remain the same for several decades, or a couple of decades at least and then changes dramatically- eg Joan, Pamela, Linda type names followed on from many years of quite frilly Victorian names, many of which are popular now. After that came 60s, 70s, 80s names, such as Sarah, Louise, Jane, Deborah, then Rebecca, Hannah etc. I'm not being that accurate here, just explaining my OP better. What I was trying to work out was which names that are creeping or leaping up the top 100 will be the new Ava/Amelia/Olivia- names that were in the top 100 but suddenly became the most popular names in the whole country to give your baby. There were plenty of Amelias and Olivias around before just not as many as there are now. So I was really thinking of individual names. Eg Florence: could that end up at no. 1 after climbing so far, or has it peaked? But keep the discussion going- it's interesting predicting the next shift in trend, probably more interesting that what I had intended to ask!

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RandomSocks · 17/09/2015 11:01

For girls:

Ethel
Edna

For boys:

Arthur
Frederic

TheDowagerCuntess · 17/09/2015 10:22

Harvey is up there with Stanley. I just do not get it. Out of all the possible boys' names...

Babayaggatheboneylegged · 17/09/2015 10:17

There is a baby Myra at my daughter's nursery! I think that, objectively, it's quite a nice name and, owing to the current popularity of Maya, could have become quite popular had it not been for Hindley. I am assuming the one at our nursery either has parents who are non-British, or are very young.

I still cannot fathom the current wild popularity of Stanley. Or Archie.

Whoever said upthread that Pamela is due a comeback might be onto something.

I think 50s names are probably going to be the next big thing. Greta seems to be very much in favour atm. I reckon Jean, June and Judy and their ilk might make comebacks too.

DandyDan · 17/09/2015 09:35

Re Richard - most, if not all, children will never have heard of Richard being shortened to Dick. And most Richards nowadays shorten their name to Rich or Rick or Ricky. And no adult will suggest Dick as a nickname for any child they know called Richard. So it simply won't occur.

And of the Dicks that are famous, kids won't connect their name with Richard or won't have heard of them at all -

Dick Cheney
Dick van Dyke
Dick Emery
Dick King Smith
Dick Whittington

I think there will be calmer, less frilly names - some of the classic boys names and names from the 1930's: Andrew, Robert, Mark, Michael, Peter, Paul, Ian, even Timothy and John. Possibly Raymond, Kenneth, Alan, Donald too.

Girls - Angela, Susan(na), Joan, Jean, Pamela, Barbara, Greta, Sylvia, Nancy, Margaret.

RedToothBrush · 16/09/2015 23:02

Beckett, Buster, Everett, Meredith, Otis, Winston, Etta, Marnie, Celeste, Blythe

Alisvolatpropiis · 16/09/2015 21:11

And a Walt(er).

Not keen on that mind.

Alisvolatpropiis · 16/09/2015 21:10

I know a baby Jim (James)!

Lightbulbon · 16/09/2015 20:41

I know of baby Douglas & Ralph and a toddler Clark so maybe those parents are ahead of the trends?

My dd says she'll call her DS 'Mikey'. I really hope she changes her mind!

Lightbulbon · 16/09/2015 20:35

Names from the 40s will be granny chic so names like

Dorothy
Myra (when no ones left who remembers the moors murders)
Hazel
Greta
Trudy
Candy
Sindy
Barbara (Barbie)
Ann
Helen
Catherine
Carol(ine/a)
Denise
Janet
Lorraine
Heather

Paul
Peter
Donald
Richard
Robert/bertie/bobby
Jim (rather than James/Jamie)
Frank
Walt(er)
Stanley
Michael
John

PaulineFossil · 16/09/2015 20:03

Susan, Pamela, Linda, Jean. I can really see Pamela growing in popularity.