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Rincoe · 2026-04-22T19:06:46+00:00

Barbara Gertrude Muriel Mildred Majorie Eileen Geraldine

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ForQuirkyFawn · 23/04/2026 17:50

Hilda
Gladys
Nora

FarmersWifeOf30Years · 23/04/2026 17:43

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Odette and Olive added to the list! Thank you

ItalianChineseIndianMexican · 23/04/2026 17:39

Sorry, realised OP specifically asked about girl's names and I've thrown in some boys!

I'll add in Belinda and Linda and Judith and Theresa too!

ItalianChineseIndianMexican · 23/04/2026 17:37

FarmersWifeOf30Years · 23/04/2026 17:19

I've got a Kay, Kerry, Joan, Karen, Margo, Margarita, Muriel, Nora, Pauline & Sonya.
There all cows though so they don't seem to mind. I need names beginning with an O this year if anyone has any ideas.

Olive. That was my Grandma's name.

I know children called Mary, Dorothy, Elsie, Mabel, Humphrey, Stanley, Fred, Connie, Penny, Sylvia, Ted, Kenneth, Rita, Albert, Susan, Ronnie, Frank, Sally, Raymond...

I haven't come across anyone under 50 named Keith, Norman, Maud, Mildred, Ethel, Audrey, Leslie, Roger, Gerald, Harold, Wendy, Deirdre, Lionel, Una, Edna, Roy, Glynis, Pauline...

Reportingfromwherever · 23/04/2026 17:29

FarmersWifeOf30Years · 23/04/2026 17:19

I've got a Kay, Kerry, Joan, Karen, Margo, Margarita, Muriel, Nora, Pauline & Sonya.
There all cows though so they don't seem to mind. I need names beginning with an O this year if anyone has any ideas.

So funny. How about Odette?

FarmersWifeOf30Years · 23/04/2026 17:19

I've got a Kay, Kerry, Joan, Karen, Margo, Margarita, Muriel, Nora, Pauline & Sonya.
There all cows though so they don't seem to mind. I need names beginning with an O this year if anyone has any ideas.

Allseeingallknowing · 23/04/2026 17:17

LoudPlumDog · 23/04/2026 15:55

Dorcas
Jennifer
Dawn
Mavis
Judith
Irene
Linda
Michelle
Myrtle
Doris
Ida
Glenys
Helen

Dorcas is lovely!

Allseeingallknowing · 23/04/2026 17:16

UnlikelyIntimacies · 23/04/2026 17:14

There's an Irish politician called Hidegarde Naughton, who must only be in her 40s -- currently minister for education. I don't think I've ever encountered another.

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Conjures up images of a big boned woman with a heavy face, in a tweed suit!

UnlikelyIntimacies · 23/04/2026 17:14

FunnyOrca · 23/04/2026 17:01

My great grandmother was also Hildegard! I jokingly pitched it to my husband as “an important family name” for our first daughter and he actually considered it!!! 🤣

However, he nixed my grandmother’s name (top 100) which I was actually serious about.

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There's an Irish politician called Hidegarde Naughton, who must only be in her 40s -- currently minister for education. I don't think I've ever encountered another.

pinkchampagne1 · 23/04/2026 17:09

CurlewKate · 23/04/2026 09:26

Beryl
Farrah.

Although I am ready to hear that lots of posters have 5 of each in their child’s nursery!

And I also have to say that my mother was laughed out of calling me Emily because it was such an awful old fashioned name that would never ever come back!

My nephew’s 14 year old girlfriend is called Farrah

FunnyOrca · 23/04/2026 17:01

MissAmbrosia · 22/04/2026 20:12

My GGM was Hildegaard. Apart from Mildred and Gertrude, I know a few people with the other names, though I live abroad. Maybe Muriel sounds more exotic with a french accent.

My great grandmother was also Hildegard! I jokingly pitched it to my husband as “an important family name” for our first daughter and he actually considered it!!! 🤣

However, he nixed my grandmother’s name (top 100) which I was actually serious about.

ExquisiteSocialSkills · 23/04/2026 16:58

I remember seeing a Network 7 ( ‘youth’ magazine programme) in the ‘90s discussing cycles of fashion in baby names and ‘imagine some time in the future there will be babies called Violet and Percy!’ And that’s what happened.

mcmuffin22 · 23/04/2026 16:51

StrongandNorthern · 22/04/2026 20:23

David Mitchell and Victoria Coren have a Barbara.
Can't see Ethel coming back.

Didn't lily Allen have an Ethel?

ERthree · 23/04/2026 16:37

Vergingontheridiculous · 22/04/2026 22:56

Agnes is definitely having a moment thanks to Hamnet

Spell it backwards and you have the name Senga. Don't know which is worse to be honest.

somburd · 23/04/2026 16:20

UnctuousUnicorns · 23/04/2026 12:01

Griselda doesn't exist outside "Cats", surely?! 🤷‍♀️

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Grizell - old Scottish name.

honeylulu · 23/04/2026 16:18

CurlewKate · 23/04/2026 09:26

Beryl
Farrah.

Although I am ready to hear that lots of posters have 5 of each in their child’s nursery!

And I also have to say that my mother was laughed out of calling me Emily because it was such an awful old fashioned name that would never ever come back!

Your Emily story is very funny because my Dad (who is now 84) remembers as a child his great-grandmother, who was called Emma, complaining bitterly about her "old fashioned, embarrassing name". I found that hilarious as there were 5 Emmas in my class in the mid 1980s. It was just about the most popular name at that time. Less so now, but still a few little Emmas around and no one would say it was horrible or old fashioned.

Ginburee · 23/04/2026 16:02

DrUptonsGardenGnome · 22/04/2026 20:20

Hortense and Phyllis are two I can’t imagine having a resurgence.

I know of a junior child called Phyllis.

LoudPlumDog · 23/04/2026 15:55

Dorcas
Jennifer
Dawn
Mavis
Judith
Irene
Linda
Michelle
Myrtle
Doris
Ida
Glenys
Helen

TheChicDreamer · 23/04/2026 15:36

I’m sure there was a Jilly Cooper character called Griselda.

UnctuousUnicorns · 23/04/2026 15:22

AlignStars · 23/04/2026 14:56

It's Grizabella in Cats, not Grizelda

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Durr! 🤦‍♀️

Absolutepleb · 23/04/2026 15:10

Erica - I think it's too Trumpy now.

AlignStars · 23/04/2026 14:56

UnctuousUnicorns · 23/04/2026 12:01

Griselda doesn't exist outside "Cats", surely?! 🤷‍♀️

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It's Grizabella in Cats, not Grizelda

ChaosAD · 23/04/2026 14:50

Allseeingallknowing · 22/04/2026 22:58

Myra will never be popular again

I don't think it was ever popular. I think the fact that it was unusual is what has made it stand out due to its unfortunate association with a monster. Rose West was just as heinous yet the name Rose remains popular - because it's not an unusual name.

Wjdbxb · 23/04/2026 14:44

That said, I remember an old colleague’s wife having a baby in 1997 and when he told me they’d called her Olivia, I thought it was such an ugly name. Couldn’t believe it when it then became the most common girls name in the UK for about 20 years running 😂 (I think it’s an ok sort of name now, just took some getting used to).

Wjdbxb · 23/04/2026 14:42

I always thought that Mabel would never come back. To me, it is an entirely ugly name, along the lines of Ethel and Bertha. Yet THREE of my friends called their daughters Mabel - one is about 16 now and the other two are about 11-13ish. I don’t understand how they found anything nice about the name at all. I know we all like different types of names, but some are just too u got sounding to come back and I really thought that this was one of them.