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

63 replies

ConFuschias · 06/10/2009 15:25

Something along the lines of:

I have a Darren and a Karen. Would it be too much to call DC3 Sharon?

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bluebump · 06/10/2009 16:04

I wasn't given a middle name and really wanted to give myself the middle name of Louise just like all of my friends who were also born in the '70's!

twirlymum · 06/10/2009 16:00

Joanne
Claire
Emma
Donna
Lisa

Matthew
Lee
Daniel
Stephen
Robert

FishInMyHair · 06/10/2009 15:59

Rachel
Julie
Karen
Danielle
Sarah
Kelly
Lisa
Sharon

Scott
Mark
David
Stephen
Christoph er
Lee

(So, we are likely to have grand children or great grand children with these names?
Mine is above and I have never liked it.)

MmeGoblindt · 06/10/2009 15:45

OMG, can you believe my MIL. She wants us to call our DD after her mother/MIL. This is her list:

Beatrice
Isabella
Florence

And if we have a boy, then she suggested

Alfred / Alfie
Frederick
Theodore.

I have told DH that there is NO WAY I am going to lumber our poor DD with those names.

What do you think of Sharon Tracey?

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ConFuschias · 06/10/2009 15:43

good one AvengingGerbil!

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BoysAreLikeDogs · 06/10/2009 15:39

mandy
jackie
sally-ann
nicola

john
david
stephen
craig
christopher

AvengingGerbil · 06/10/2009 15:39

'My gran is insisting that we call DD after her or we won't inherit her fortune: bad news, she's called Ruby Mabel Amelia. Should I give my poor baby this really ghastly frumpy old lady name or call her Kelly Samantha and tell gran to keep her cash????'

GhostWriter · 06/10/2009 15:38

I wanted to call my PFB Linda, the woman up the road's cousin's new cat has been called Belinda and it's ruined it for me. How selfish.

How would you spell this name? Sharyn, Sharon, Sharron, Charon?

Matthew, Mark, Luke or John?

MaggieBehave · 06/10/2009 15:37

in 30 years, mums will be laughing at our obsession with lilly, lila, lola, leila, Ella, Ellie, Libby, Milly, Molly, Tilly....

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ConFuschias · 06/10/2009 15:36

I can't choose between two middle names:
Jane or Louise?

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MaggieBehave · 06/10/2009 15:36

Suzanne
Melanie
Claire
Jennifer
Louise
Nicola
Karen
Kim
Julie
Alison
Gillian

everybody got one of those names. It was the rule back then.

IneedacleanerIamalazyslattern · 06/10/2009 15:36

Everyone that I know their parents would be saying:

"I have a Steven and a Louise, should I call this one Jane or Tracy?"

I know a ridiculous number of people in their 30's with these names it can get very confusing.

cremolatorium · 06/10/2009 15:33

Tracey
or Keith
or Kim
or Louise