Which names do you predict to be the next big thing?

Arlo is definitely on the up. Ruby appears to already be enjoying a spike in popularity. I agree that, with the current vogue in Edwardian names (ds's middle name is Arthur), we might be due a 30's/40's revival.

I predict a minor and short-lived spike for Effie, as it it is quite sweet, trips off the tongue lightly and there's one in 'Desperate Romantics'. (Not that I'm watching, but someone must be!)

I love all the votes for Violet. I wanted that for dd, but dh exercised his right of veto. I also liked Ernest for ds, and Betsy had he been a girl, so clearly there's some kind of turn of the 20th century thing going on in my head.

I can't get my head around the possibility of Nigel or Neville making a comeback, which must mean that they are ripe for revival. I will probably get grandsons named that, now I've said it.

I can't imagine an Atticus or Ptolemy living round here. (I am now picturing grandsons called Ptolemy Nigel and Neville Atticus.)

actually meant to say Dh and I really really wanted to call DS2 Malachai, but reluctantly decided it might be a bit too unusual - have to admit I haven't seen it anywhere yet...

bleh - I loved all the Chalet School Stories - I still have mine packed in the loft (mmm - wonder where that step ladder went..........)

I'm reading Chalet School Girls at the moment (yes, I know, I'm not a 12 year old girl, but they are fun) and it is quite weird how "current" a lot of the names in there are, and the one I'm reading at the moment was written in 1940. Names mentioned on here like Constance, Sylvie, Margaret ... very odd.

Norman. Along with Roman.

I'd also like to vote for Conrad and for Jeffrey. Sadly just seen Jeffrey take a bashing on another thread, but I think it is an ace name.

Edie, Edith

Rufus seems to be on the up, thought it was unusual but there are a few around, also Vincent.

Nigel, of course

Also thinking Philip and Dennis.
What do you think of Cedric and Desmond? Do you think that they are due a comeback?

Fiona? Was soooo popular in the 70s, so might make a comeback?

Hello Zoomum,
Noam is a beautiful Hebrew name which actually means 'pleasantness' although it also has the connotations of 'gentle'. It is best known from the famous biblical saying from Proverbs about wisdom which translates as "her ways are ways of pleasantness and all of her paths are peace". ('Her' refers to 'wisdom').
Sorry if boring, geek alert

mslucy: Finn is an irish name (after irish legend Finn McCool), not scottish.

We went down the irish root and have Aoife for our DD and Finn for DS. Agree lots of gaelic names coming back.

My best friend has a 5 month old Mabel and another friend has just had a Stanley.

And my DD's Nursery class has multiples of the names: Gracie, Lily, Olivia, Erin, Ava, Mia. All pretty but far too popular.

Am now expecting no 2 and am considering Catherine for a girl (so many nice short versions) but haven't thought of a boy yet.

So glad I read this, I had a Vincent 16 months ago, and he's a lovely Vinnie, but he would have been Marianne had he been a girl - so relieved he wasn't as around here it would be shortened to Maz.

Caracatcus?? No, plant name surely??

Too many 'a's there

That conductor bloke and his wife [philistine emoticon] who recently went to Switzerland to die had a Boudicca and a Caracatcus.

Fergus
Lorcan
Magnus
Bernard
Osian

Astrid
Norah
Maeve
Orla

I am predicting a more regional/celtic embrace of olde names....

I cannot think anyone would really call their kid Boudicca?!!

I think longer more womanly warrior names are coming in as a backlash against all the 2-syllable very pretty girly Daisy, Molly, Lily names and envisage a rise of French names after Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne

I tip:

Bellatrix
Boudicca

Clementine
Celestine
Seraphine
Eglantine

noam was on my shortlist for ds5 - i mentioned it on here

in rl people were vile!

Sylvie is a lovely name, I always liked also Luca for a boy, but now millions of littely boys are called Luca.

What about the name Noam for a boy, it is a hebrew name (I like hebrew names), meaning, gentle (or along those lines)....

my friend had a norah and an ada too

Do you knowdd would have been vincent if a ds- but i really didnt see it becoming popular- it is a faimily name.

Mind you didnt see ruby as popular (6 years ago) and dd2 (1) is rose so there you go!!

Eden is getting more popular round our way- for boys and girls.

There's a Ptolemy too.

I wonder if Clive will get popular soon. I think in the next 10-20 years it will do, as all the baby boomer Clives reach their dotage and people name their LOs after them.

My Dad & fil are Clyve & Kevin, neither of which I like, although my pg hormones are making me warm to Clyve.

was thinking victor today

when i was teen i met a fit one

total tosser but that appeals when one is 17 he is 22 and gorgeous!!

vincent already on the up!

met a Nelson recently