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Names you can't imagine making a comeback

587 replies

SunshineDays2019 · 15/01/2020 22:21

Girls:
Doreen
Vera
Sandra
Linda
Pauline

Boys:
Malcolm
Gerald
Trevor
Horace
Percy

What do you reckon? Smile I'm not knocking these names by the way!

OP posts:
Thehogfatherstolemycurry · 15/01/2020 22:24

Dorothy
Margaret
Vicky
Sheila
Debbie

Alan
Lez (Leslie)
Graham

Hadenoughofitall441 · 15/01/2020 22:24

Barry
Andrea

listsandbudgets · 15/01/2020 22:25

Wayne

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ghislaine · 15/01/2020 22:25

Cuthbert
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Daphne, Mavis, Geraldine, Doris

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Doris
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MeanwhileAtNumber98 · 15/01/2020 22:26

Nigel

mamamilkmachine · 15/01/2020 22:26

Gary

CynthiaRothrock · 15/01/2020 22:26

Keith
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DownWhichOfLate · 15/01/2020 22:26

I love Gerald! (The others can fade away).

Madein1995 · 15/01/2020 22:26

Gillian
Jeanette
Jacqueline
Rosemary
Lillian
Judith

Keith
Kevin
Robert
Terry
Paul
Arthur

WindFlower92 · 15/01/2020 22:27

Ethel
Gary

BlackCatsRule88 · 15/01/2020 22:27

Just yesterday I saw someone I know who has just named her baby Wayne. She’s Canadian so it might not have the same connotations, but I did think Hmm

MissDollyMix · 15/01/2020 22:27

Rodger.

TheJoxter · 15/01/2020 22:27

I’ve met two Percy’s under the age of 5 recently!

Muriel
Gary

Caramel78 · 15/01/2020 22:27

Agatha
Maud
Maureen
Doreen
Doris
Moira
Sheila
Barbara

Percy
Keith
Douglas
Norman
Horace
Gordon
Cyril

BigBairyHollocks · 15/01/2020 22:28

I like Malcolm!

ToLiveInPeace · 15/01/2020 22:29

Hepzibah?

theThreeofWeevils · 15/01/2020 22:29

Gerald is fine. Daphne is actually a lovely name. And Margaret - come on, what's wrong with Margaret? Also a lovely name (I could be biased here...)

ShowOfHands · 15/01/2020 22:29

I've met several Arthurs, Dorothys, Ediths and a Lillian.

sawyersfishbiscuits · 15/01/2020 22:29

Barbara and Bernard... mind you I do know an Ernest!

SoftBlocks · 15/01/2020 22:30

Dorothy, Edith, Ethel and Daphne are back in already

zombielady · 15/01/2020 22:30

Julie

rempy · 15/01/2020 22:31

I can complete Thomas the tank engine bingo ... I know a juvenile Percy and a Gordon...

Brian is surely extinct?

Cotswoldmama · 15/01/2020 22:31

Percy has sort made a cone back I know two young boys called percy!