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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 20:29

Louise
Amelia
Victoria

WendyWeber · 08/08/2008 20:28

Helen

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 20:27

Robert?

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fishie · 08/08/2008 20:27

all names date. either they are in fashion when the child is born - as those on this thread all are - or they aren't (liz, ann, kathy, all variants of your fashionable ones)

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 20:27

Not sure about Emily. Almost nobody between 25 and 65 is called Emily.

Rebecca, yes, know loads, at school and it's in the top ten.

Lucy, yes, know grown up ones and baby ones.

David, no sorry the panel will not accept David as apart from bebby dehvid from the Royle family, don't know any Davids under 25.

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norkmaiden · 08/08/2008 20:26

Jane
Catherine

WendyWeber · 08/08/2008 20:26

Laura
Jessica, actually
Elizabeth
Katharine

Most ordinary boys' names - John, Peter, Michael, David, Robert etc

norkmaiden · 08/08/2008 20:25

Mary
Elizabeth
Harriet
Charlotte

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 20:25

No offence to all the millions of Hannahs out there, but why aren't some of them Rachels? Rachel is spunkier. I do apologise for saying spunkier like a home and away character.

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BellaBear · 08/08/2008 20:25

David seems to be a name that could be any age (if that's what you mean?) even though it has had periods of greater and lesser popularity

squeaver · 08/08/2008 20:25

Emily
Rebecca
Katharine/Katherine/Katie
All variants of Elizabeth

thisisyesterday · 08/08/2008 20:24

Lucy?

thisisyesterday · 08/08/2008 20:24

Rachel is really, really lovely. have had it on my list of girls names for each of my pg's, despite normally going for more unusual things

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 20:23

I went to school with a Ted, so yes, Edward. Tick.

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LynetteScavo · 08/08/2008 20:23

Edward

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CuckooClockWorkOrange · 08/08/2008 20:22

Yeah I have a friend Emma who is 42 so I do think of it as classic.

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IllegallyBrunette · 08/08/2008 20:19

Emma

LynetteScavo · 08/08/2008 20:18

James