Babynames threads of the 70s - what would they have been like?

Maggiebehave - yes Trac(e)y is late 50s onwards - from the film 'High Society'. Plus (I think) it's the name of Diana Rigg's Bond girl character in that one film with er, you know, the Bond who was sacked. It's basically the 'Amelie' of the sixties - saw the movie/thought the name was classy/oops so did everybody else...

People I know born in the 70's:

Jane
Jaime
Victoria/Vicky
David
Kirsty
Gabriel
Naomi
Keith
Gail

I went to a pretentious secondary school and remember the music teacher asking a girl whether she pronounced her name 'Share-on' or 'Shah-ron'. Er, no.

There were a few 'Kah-rens' though.

Remember a certain teacher always calling one girl CHeryl (with a Ch as in church) and not SHeryl as in sh.
Dean seemed a cool name to me as a child!!!!
So too did Claire.
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I thought my name was pretty timeless...

However, it has been mentioned on this thread more than once.

I have obviously been walking around in a complete delusion.

Anyway - there was a boy called George who lived in our street in the eighties and oh how we laughed and laughed!

didnt Jason begin its ascent around then?

It would definitely have been "Shall I call my son Steve, Dave, Andy, Ian or Graham/Graeme?"

having just been to a 20 year school reunion am laughing at this as we were all 1970/1971 babies and had loads of Sarahs, Julies, Karens, Kays, Helens, Nicolas, Claire/Clares, Victorias, Louises, Alisons, Jackies, Leigh, Rachels, - you get the idea! My own name has been mentioned by lots of people and my middle name is Jane so I feel like I'm amongst kindred spirits!

I am a Nicola Jane, (every Nicola I know is Nicola Jane) but I still actually quite like my name...
The most common names back then in the mid 80s were Emma, Sarah, Claire and Joanne. We had a friend called Cheryl - I remember all the mums thinking that was terribly high-brow

I was born in 1978 and there only seemed to be 2 names for boys Steven and Paul.

My first and middle names are both top five now - but were rather more unusual when I was born in 1977. I was jealous of my sister's middle name - Jane.

I hated my name for years. Now it's gone to the other extreme but I do like it!

DH is Darren though so we don't let the side down entirely.

Mine were..

Julie
Tracy
Sharon
Emma
Claire
Joanne
Amanda
Laura
Helen
Nicola
Natalie
Natasha
Susan
Jenny
Sarah
Lisa

Keith
Jason
Mark
Stephen
Daniel
Robert
Sam
Ivan (cool name imo)
Justin
Gavin
Nicholas
Richard
Barry
Gary
Kevin
Michael

Has no-one said Andrew/Andy and David/Dave?

Thanks choosyfloosy.

I was born in 1988 and am nodding and grinning my way through this thread and the ensuing nostalgia!

My 17-year-old sister is in a class where virtually everybody's middle name is Jane, Anne, Claire or Louise (my forename!).

What always amuses me about the 60s/70s names threads is the fact that 75% of the names mentioned were still in the Top 50 or so in the early 90s. I know of heaps of Kellys, Helens, Gareths, Marks etc in their late teens... then in kids born post about 92/93 they all tail off suddenly.

I guess it's just one of those zeitgeisty, 'edge of generation' things where trends seem to go on perpetually and then disappear as suddenly as they arrived over the space of about a year or two.

I was born in 1964 and my gang was:

sarah
sarah
susan
susan
kim
tracey
beccy

others were:

christina
karen
gillian
diane
emma
angela

boys:

sean
john
paul
grant
david (several)
richard
stephen
robert
duncan

blimey can't believe I can remember so many!

Most popular name in my school seemed to be Claire - I was always one of 3 or 4 in the class. Most had the same middle name, Louise, too.

'I have a dd Sarah Louise, my neighbour has a Sarah Jane and my neighbour on the other side has a Sarah Elizabeth. A new neighbour opposite, who seemed lovely at first and makes fantastic vol au vents, has just had a dd and called her Sarah Louise Jane Elizabeth. Are we being unreasonable to think she is taking the piss?'

LOL dungeonbutter

I'd like something unusual for this baby and have a feeling it might be a dd... am thinking Rebecca or Abigail, but are they are too wacky?

(Several of both in my school plus all the others already mentioned.)

If i call my daughter Katy or Kate will people always lengthen it to Kathryn?

based on my 1st form register in 1989 which went Kate, Kathryn, Katy, Katherine, Catelyn! also in the same year group were 2 other Catherine's and 1 other Caitlin.

I'm Irish too and a lot of the names already mentioned would have been rarer there - most of my classmates were Mary, Ann, Theresa, Catherine or Deirdre or variations of... Jackie & Caroline were still popular due to the Kennedys...

Only knew one Sharon in the whole school and it was considered unusual!

The names considered most unusual in my year were Kirsten & Natalie.

Most popular names at my primary school were
Nicola
Debra
Sharon
Tracey
Amanda
Samantha
Joanne

Boys:
Gary
Darren
Peter
Lee
Ke vin

In a very rough area of Manchester though.

Lynne
Barry
Pete
Kevin
Julie
Lorraine
Karen
Imogen
Angela
Lesley
Elaine
Helen
Hillary
Martin
Sarah
Josephine
We also had an Ashleigh, which was unheard of!

I'm 44 and the class was full of Sharons and Tracey. Also popular were Linda (they were always the cool ones) Elaine, Claire, Lesley, Joanne, Gary (cool back then) Michael, David and Stephen.

Names considered posh in our comp were Heather, Catherine, Emily, Aiden, Christopher and Miles.

Bathsheba, we didn't have many traceys or sharons either. I think that was late 60s.

So Traceys and Sharons would usually be about 43ish or older. Does that sound about right??