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Darren and Joanne

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Davespecifico · 29/08/2019 21:02

In what year will there be pictures of little Darren and Joanne skipping through fields in a Sunday supplement article?

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Cashew1 · 29/08/2019 23:11

I love Karen and wanted to call DD that but DH objected

C0untDucku1a · 29/08/2019 23:16

Some of the names i consider very 70’s are quite popular with the african heritage tween pupils i teach, so different cultures popularise names at different times. Like some french or irish names that are really not at all used there that are popular with the english.

Alenia45 · 29/08/2019 23:16

My mum wanted to call me Margot back in the 80s.... haven't seen that one make a comeback yet.

ourkidmolly · 29/08/2019 23:18

It's in the top 100!

C0untDucku1a · 29/08/2019 23:19

Margot
Not made a comeback? Have you not read todays stats?!

dustarr73 · 29/08/2019 23:20

I know 2 Garys age 11 and 6.I know a Bobbi and a baby Archie.

Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/08/2019 23:20

Wasn't there a couple who called their baby Gary recently after reports that it was dying out?

Waxonwaxoff0 · 29/08/2019 23:21

Will Tracey ever make a comeback.

Dljlr · 29/08/2019 23:22

I'm a Joanne, always hated it as the local accent pronounces it Jo wan. Have gone by Jo since forever although my mum insists on using the full name. I can't see it making a comeback. I did recently hear of a baby Doug which I rather loved

Mrsfrumble · 29/08/2019 23:25

so different cultures popularise names at different times.

Very true. A few years ago we were living in the midwestern USA and Ian, Graham and Gavin were popular and fashionable names for baby boys. (All lovely names. Just don’t know any under 40 here in the UK. They are the names of my brothers’ school friends...)

Back in London I know a toddler Brian and a baby Roy. I also know a small Jason which is such a great name it deserves to be a timeless classic rather than an 80s throwback.

Sidge · 29/08/2019 23:26

I have immunised a baby Malcolm recently which surprised me.

I can’t see Tracy coming back any time soon, or Sharon.

LightDrizzle · 29/08/2019 23:26

I agree that the sound of Sharon is actually lovely, - which presumably accounted for its meteoric rise from obscurity (and subsequent fall)

emilybrontescorsett · 29/08/2019 23:27

I think those names will make a come back in 15 years.

Alenia45 · 29/08/2019 23:28

Haven't heard it at all where we are, heard every other name. Lots of what we used to call old lady named, like Edith, which I love. Definitely no baby Margots, so that's a surprise.

We have a couple of Apples though, a Princess, Phoenix, Champagne. Can't honestly imagine a Nanny Apple or Grandma Princess to be honest, but each to their own.

user1493423934 · 30/08/2019 05:47

At Dc school there are 3 Sylvia's and 3 Annabels in my DS's year (aged 6 - 7). Also in the same year a Hilary, Heather and Gwen. One of the Sylvia's has a younger sister (aged 4) called Edith. Also a few Sylvie's scattered around the school.
Funnily enough there are no boys called Wayne, Craig, Darren, Graham etc - only a lot of Jack's, Finn/Finley's, Daniel's, James's, William's etc.

Goawayquickly · 30/08/2019 07:34

Agree that Sharon is phonetically pleasing as is Lisa, Wonder if Dean will come back. At school in the 70’s we had a few Heathers, Joannes and Michelles.

dayswithaY · 30/08/2019 07:54

I met a little Margot the other day, I love it. Also met an Esther also lovely and Peaches. I did flinch a bit at that one, wondered if she had heard of Peaches Geldof?

Aragog · 30/08/2019 07:55

I thought the cycle was linked to grandparents and more likely great grandparents. People use names to remember/recognition of those older people in their lives.

So, to me those are 70s names - generation of people in their 40s, who are currently likely to be parents of teens. It will be when their children start having children we may see the resurgence of those 70s names - when those currently 40+ year old people are becoming great grandparents themselves.

I suspect the cycle will become longer as people now tend to have children later in life.

Aragog · 30/08/2019 08:02

Next surge in names will be more 'our' parents generations, when our teens get a bit older and start naming their children, when 'our' parents become great grandparents. Maybe around 2060-70 ish assuming people are having babies around late 20s-mid 30s for a return if 1970s names.

formerbabe · 30/08/2019 08:06

I know a primary aged child called Leanne...poor thing.
I definitely Hmm at that.

Hermanhessescat · 30/08/2019 08:57

Gail, pauline, maxine and kevin - doubt we'll see them again although I work with some lovely colleagues from india and they have very traditional names, gertrude, rosemary....

PickAChew · 30/08/2019 09:06

@Aragog I think many of us here might be your parents' generation. If I make it to 2060 I'll be 90. I went to school with Shaz and Daz and Trace and Jace.

Iamthewombat · 30/08/2019 09:06

Heritage names (eg Anglo Saxon names like Cedric etc) won’t disappear because somebody will always want to revive them. Ditto Norman French names (like Geoffrey) and old Scottish names like Malcolm and Ian. They won’t die out.

More modern names, questionable. I’d like to know when the last Maxine (mentioned upthread) was christened. Somebody will come along and tell me that it is a medieval name now: I know it is derived from French but thought it was more modern.

Iamthewombat · 30/08/2019 09:07

I bet Kevin survives as well. That is an old Irish name (and a saint’s name, which tends to guarantee longevity)

StayInYourLaneBoy · 30/08/2019 09:11

Can't honestly imagine a Nanny Apple

Surely she'd be Granny Apple? Surname Smith...

The world is due more Pamela's. Which is what I was almost called in 1970! I ended up with an even more unpopular name that's never really been in fashion since The Bible, apart from the shortened version of it