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Girls names that won’t come back…..

807 replies

Rincoe · 22/04/2026 20:06

Barbara
Gertrude
Muriel
Mildred
Majorie
Eileen
Geraldine

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Handrearedmagpie · 23/04/2026 01:15

I bizarrely know 3 under 10s with variations of Euphemia - Effie, Phemie & Effie-May, which I would never have thought would come back.
defo no more:
Fanny
Bertha
Dick
Percy

bizarrely, my granny, born in 1916, always described Laura as an “old lady name”

SinnerBoy · 23/04/2026 01:17

Jk987 · 22/04/2026 20:31

Fanny

My dad had a mate called Fanny, Fanny B. He was really called Francis.

2021x · 23/04/2026 01:27

Diedre... surely Corrie has put the nail in the coffin... and Mavis

PetsPalace · 23/04/2026 01:32

Mildred, Maud & Enid have all been mentioned, they make me think of The Worst Witch and are pretty cool. My cheeky, smart & stubborn dog has one of those names and she's adorable 😂

Hanoversquare2 · 23/04/2026 01:33

Anna-Marie or Anne-Marie

HugoElephant · 23/04/2026 01:50

Agnes, particularly with French pronunciation, is beautiful and chic. Gorgeous and timeless name.

Shinyclean · 23/04/2026 02:33

My nan was Ethel, she’d be 108 the other day, my other nan was Bertha

Francestein · 23/04/2026 03:04

Agnes & Cheryl

HoppingPavlova · 23/04/2026 03:09

2021x · 23/04/2026 01:27

Diedre... surely Corrie has put the nail in the coffin... and Mavis

Seems Mavis is having a resurgence though. Some of my friends and acquaintances are having grandkids and I know 2 recent Mavis’s and one of those is not the only one in her class on starting school. There are also quite a few Mabel’s.

I also know a few Agnes’s being born/young kids, a Victoria recently, 2 Flora’s, a Vera and a Velmay just off the top of my head on names I have clocked as a resurgence from my grandmothers generation (she was born 1901).

Thatladdo · 23/04/2026 03:47

I guess Fanny would be facing an uphill battle 😂

Onthemaintrunkline · 23/04/2026 04:03

Maureen
Rhonda
Sharon
Tracie (& all it’s different spellings)
Denise
Rayleen
Beverley
Gay & Gaylene

BeanQuisine · 23/04/2026 04:14

Eileen will be back, it's a pleasant name.

Kevinbaconsrealwife · 23/04/2026 04:16

Susan and Leslie

mathanxiety · 23/04/2026 04:27

I know babies named Joan, Barbara, and Dawn.

I'd say Noreen, Doreen, Aideen, Maureen, Sheila, Deirdre have very little chance of returning.

mathanxiety · 23/04/2026 04:38

Denise, Christine, Suzanne, Geraldine, Gerarda, Majella, Brenda, Patricia, Valerie, Trudy, Elaine, Lorraine. Linda, Janette, Janice, Mona, Hillary, Eunice, Sandra, Yvette, Yvonne, Gillian. Alison, Amanda...

Thecomedyclub · 23/04/2026 04:42

Candida
charmian

thinkofsomethingdifferent · 23/04/2026 04:42

@Fgfgfgmy daughters friend (14) is called Tryphena.

What about Joyce? My Nans name and I don’t hear of it much.

givemesteel · 23/04/2026 04:57

MycactusandI · 22/04/2026 20:42

Joanne
Lesley
Yvonne

I think makes like this rather than the ones up thread will take a while to come back.

Add Gemma, Stacey, Tracey, Sharon, Colette, Bernardette (any other names ending in 'ette'), Coleen, Charmaine. But they might eventually.

I don't think Fanny will ever shake the slang reference though.

Rosetime · 23/04/2026 05:02

Rincoe · 22/04/2026 20:06

Barbara
Gertrude
Muriel
Mildred
Majorie
Eileen
Geraldine

We have quite a few little Marjories over here.

Empis · 23/04/2026 05:03

SerendipityCat · 22/04/2026 20:48

Gertrude
Marjorie
Mildred
Doreen
Althea
Tanya

Althea is lovely and very much in line with what people like these days.

I don't think Winifred ever completely went away.

I think the names of my generation like Laura, Gemma, are close to being the Sharon and Tracy of our time and might take a while to come back. I'm a Laura and I hate it.

101Alsatians · 23/04/2026 05:39

Doreen
Agatha
Lettice

Elanol · 23/04/2026 06:07

Fanny

CottonCandyLand · 23/04/2026 06:26

Sharon
Tracy

LittleRobins · 23/04/2026 06:35

I love the name Margaret and considered it for my DD. I met a baby Dorothy recently too which I thought was gorgeous. But then I love classic names rather than the new ‘modern’ ones

Duckies · 23/04/2026 07:52

PetsPalace · 23/04/2026 01:32

Mildred, Maud & Enid have all been mentioned, they make me think of The Worst Witch and are pretty cool. My cheeky, smart & stubborn dog has one of those names and she's adorable 😂

For children reading the books now it wouldn't even be understood that these were chosen as odd, old-fashioned and even 'witchy' names - as they are probably more current sounding that the popular girls names of the 70s (when the books were written)

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