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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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bundle · 13/03/2008 14:59

I know a Frank. He's nearly 8.

branflake81 · 13/03/2008 14:58

Actually my colleague's son is called Gerald and he's 2.

bozza · 13/03/2008 14:54

I think mine are quite reasonable. The men are also reasonably current names - Harry, George, Andrew and Arthur

NoBiggy · 13/03/2008 14:48

If my children are going to use great grandparents' names they have a choice of Jesse, Muriel, Ada, Cecil, Gladys, Frank and a pair I don't know.

They could be all the rage in 20-30 years time. Although it seems unlikely from here.

bozza · 13/03/2008 14:40

Well my Grandma was born in 1916 so I am not that young... All these sort of names mentioned on here until we got to the Sharons and Tracys are my parents generation.

My great grandmothers though were Elizabeth, Eliza, Lilian and Sarah. But then again lots of Sarahs born in the 70s.

Anna8888 · 13/03/2008 14:07

A Fanny (2000) in our French family too, I'm afraid...

mummybrains · 13/03/2008 13:53

Fanny and Adolf. Both surely due a resurgence..

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 12:46

sharon tracey shaun steven.....they're all my age

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Fimbo · 13/03/2008 12:41

April
Lynne
Gillian
Marie
Kathleen
Shona
Maureen
Marion
Lindsay
Sandra
Jacqueline
Joanna

Gary
Sim on
Andrew
Nigel
Trevor
Philip
Martin
Paul

bundle · 13/03/2008 12:36

what about the sharons and traceys? and shauns and stevens?

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 12:30

depends how old you are bozza!
The Alfies and Archies are my gp sort of names, the joyces and marjories are more my parents'.

I really like Gilbert, btw

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bozza · 13/03/2008 12:08

See everyone says we are using our grandparents names but my Grandma was Edna. I think the names we have used in my generation of my family are more like greatgrandparents names.

Winnifred
Gilbert
Elaine
Brian
Howard
Derek

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 11:58

I quite like Cuthbert.

Fortunately I don't intend to have any more babies

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 11:57

edna.

crikey.

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controlfreakyagain · 13/03/2008 11:54

have only read op....
but feel surely norman and edna must be due for revival?!

tortoiseSHELL · 13/03/2008 11:50

I think Bertha was Anne's mother's name, and Walter her father's, Cuthbert was obviously from Marilla and Matthew's surname. James is after the lighthouse keeper, not sure where Shirley came from, Anne and Diana are obvious though.

Anna8888 · 13/03/2008 11:47

I think Audrey is influenced by Audrey Tautou (the actress who played Amélie).

motherinferior · 13/03/2008 11:47

Dennis/Denis
Maurice/Morris
Denise
Sandra

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 11:46

Walter Cuthbert.

Blimey.

Aren't they both Beano Softees?

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bundle · 13/03/2008 11:45

Bertha is quite tricky

love Marilla though

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 11:45

Marjorie.
Another good one bundle, you don't get any babies called marjorie do you?

Marje.

I think there will be a backlash against all names ending in "ie".

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margoandjerry · 13/03/2008 11:44

Colin, Nigel, Keith

Susan, Sheila, Janice

tortoiseSHELL · 13/03/2008 11:44

Anne's children;

Joyce

Jem (James Matthew)
Walter Cuthbert
Anne (Nan) and Diana - twins
Shirley (boy)
Bertha Marilla (Rilla)

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cadelaide · 13/03/2008 11:42

Audrey is pretty isn't it?

See, told you, these names'll be all over the place in...oooooh....7 years time.

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Anna8888 · 13/03/2008 11:42

One of my partner's third cousins (so French Jewish) called her adoptive Russian daughter Eileen (2002) ... having previously called her son Dorian (1992) .

And the (French again) sister of a former colleague called her children Geoffrey (1995) and Audrey (1998).