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Baby names

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So we've got all the Archies and Alfies and Freddies and Lilys and Elsies, what's next then?

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 10:30

I guess it'll be June, Marlene, Queenie, Malcolm, Alan, Patricia.......

...and we'll love them and think they're sooooo cute.

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pollyblue · 14/03/2008 15:41

Gladys, Gertrude, Valerie, Deirdre, Ethel, Enid, Ena, Ivy, Una, Judith, Olive

Trevor, Roy, Raymond, Cecil, Herbert, Keith, Archibald

seeker · 14/03/2008 08:57

Beryl, Doreen, Noreen, Ida, Edna, Valerie, Wilma.

Nigel, Trevor, Barry, Harold, Herbert, Percy.

Botbot · 14/03/2008 08:52

Belinda
Angela

(My favourite girls' names when I was 5)

BTW, when I was 15 (1986) my favourite girls' names were Jessica and Emily. I know this because I wrote them down in the back of my diary as future names for dds. Aren't they the two most popular names now?

DD has none of these names

tortoiseSHELL · 13/03/2008 21:47

oh, of course it was, stupid of me! Too obvious for me to notice I think!

choosyfloosy · 13/03/2008 21:19

tortoiseshell, shirley was anne's maiden name....

Maybe there'll be a thing for 'historical' names? maybe from the 60s? so, e.g., Jimi, Lyndon, Harold, Barbarella (aha, gets round the Barbara thing), Enoch, Edward...I do know a Linden I think - actually a great name for a girl.

bundle · 13/03/2008 17:17

there's a Beata at dd1's school, lovely name

Anna8888 · 13/03/2008 17:17

Hilda is horrid, I agree - but Beatrice is beautiful

bundle · 13/03/2008 17:15

barbara patron saint of coalminers

MoosMa · 13/03/2008 17:15

Oh, oh, my Grandma was called Hilda Beatrice, beat that!

Anna8888 · 13/03/2008 17:11

Ooh, I had a Great Aunt Barbara, and my maternal grandmother was Brenda.

Both horrible names, I agree.

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 17:01

Lordy.
Barbara, Brenda.
I don't think I like "B" names.

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 16:58

Oh MadameP, I wanted to be called Marie, cos of marie osmond you see

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MadamePlatypus · 13/03/2008 16:47

Thats the point bozza - I expect my children will neither know nor care whether Brenda and Dwayne would have been an odd combination in 2008. They will just say they have a nice ring to them.

bozza · 13/03/2008 16:06

eh madameplaytypus? Brenda and Dwayne hardly go together. Maybe your little Brenda will go on to have a Dwayne when you are very old and deaf and you will constantly annoy her by referring to him as either Wayne or Damien.

MadamePlatypus · 13/03/2008 15:57

I really wanted to be called Karen or Jackie when I was little.

I expect my grandchildren to be called Brenda and Dwayne.

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bundle · 13/03/2008 15:41

there's a stanley in dd2's class
and it was my grandad's name

EEC · 13/03/2008 15:40

Barbara, Joan, Stanley

SidsMummy · 13/03/2008 15:39

Well as u can probably tell by my nik, my son is called Sid and we didn't stop there his full name is Sid Alfie Jon - we think it's cute and it does suit him.

stleger · 13/03/2008 15:34

DS is 16 - his friend's include Simon, Colin, Keith and Gary. DD2 is 11, and knows a Darren, Alison and Gillian. (DD1 is 14 and has a friend called Enid!). While most of Ireland was calling children Chloe and Jack, or Caoimhe and Padraig, Cork took itself into a timeslip!

bundle · 13/03/2008 15:18

i know a raymond

MyEye · 13/03/2008 15:17

I was at school with a very chic Audrey who must now be in her late 30s

It's deffo on the cusp

I quite fancied Philippa when pg, iyswim

Bluestocking · 13/03/2008 15:13

Raymond
Keith
Gerald
Neville
Graham/Graeme
Vincent
Malcolm
Nigel
Colin
Barry
Terence/Terry

Maureen
Patricia (and people will come on MN asking if they can put "Trish" on a birth certificate, because it's so cute, and they have no intention of ever calling their little bundle of joy Patricia)
Margaret

Bluestocking · 13/03/2008 15:13

Raymond
Keith
Gerald
Neville
Graham/Graeme
Vincent
Malcolm
Nigel
Colin
Barry
Terence/Terry

MoosMa · 13/03/2008 15:09

Imagine a tiny little newborn baby, all squishy and pink, ooh she's so pretty, what's her name then?

Barbara.

Oh.

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