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Names that don't date

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 20:16

I can think of Rachel, Kate, Anna and Sarah
Maybe Beth?

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norkmaiden · 08/08/2008 22:23

cheers IK!

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 22:21

ivykaty, intersting because beyond 100, most people haven't a clue if a name is really popular or not. Lot's of people think that Flora and Esme are really unusual. I reckon they're about 101!!

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ivykaty44 · 08/08/2008 22:20

use ancestry - but use the databases from 1984-2005 for births and mariages

norkmaiden · 08/08/2008 22:10

IK do you have a link? Are you using some sort of ancestry site? (can't see it on national statistics site - maybe I've missed it?!)

ivykaty44 · 08/08/2008 22:05

look at marriages for Eng&Wales online and just input the name - they then appear in alphabetical order. You can do this aswell to see if a name( on the births) is popular or uncommon, some names are not as uncommon as you think when you input them on the births between 1984-2005

SilentTerror · 08/08/2008 21:45

I know a Ruth who is 3,and a Sarah also 3.
One of my DDs is Elizabeth,which must be the most timeless of timeless names.
Also
Catherine/Katherine
Victoria
Anna
Rebecca(know a 50 yr old,25 yr old and 11 yr old)

fizzbuzz · 08/08/2008 21:38

I went to school with Karen, Deborah, Susan, Helen, Nicola, Wendy, David, Ian, Peter.... no Amelias or Emilies or Bens

I teach 11-18, and teach lots of Amelias, Emilies, Bens,

I was going through an exam class the other day, some of the names included Paige, Jorden, Sherrelle, Scarlett, Keira, Kayleigh...totally different names to when I was at school...........

LynetteScavo · 08/08/2008 21:24

HOw do you know that ivykaty?.

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ivykaty44 · 08/08/2008 21:11

there are well over 1500+ amelia's marrying between 1984 - 2005 in England and Wales, they must have been over the age of 18?

brimfull · 08/08/2008 21:10

Helen

Willliam

MaloryDontDiveItsShallow · 08/08/2008 21:08

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fishie · 08/08/2008 21:06

well i bloody didn't.

WendyWeber · 08/08/2008 21:06

I know 2 Ruths aged 26 & 23

fishie · 08/08/2008 21:05

i know a younger ruth.

miles is an interesting one. it seems to have turned into milo lately.

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WendyWeber · 08/08/2008 21:05

I have siblings/cousins called David, Richard, Timothy, Andrew, Jonathan, Elizabeth & James (but also Alan, Robin, Sally & Yvonne - 50s or what!)

DCs/nieces/nephews are Andrew, another Andrew, Hannah, Joseph, Sarah, Jessica, Thomas, Daniel, Samuel, Alexander, Jennifer, Frances & Helen (and a rogue Carly )

fishie · 08/08/2008 21:04

malory i bet all your family's names are on those room plaques, pens, little poems on name meaning etc.

most of my family have entirely stolid names but somehow all of them have been buggered about with, so no 'personalised' mugs for us i have spent much time twiddling those stands in vain.

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 21:02

Thinks it's been said, but Peter is cool.

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