Names you can't imagine making a comeback

[SunshineDays2019]

Girls:
Doreen
Vera
Sandra
Linda
Pauline

Boys:
Malcolm
Gerald
Trevor
Horace
Percy

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

There was a Karen born in the hospital at the same time as my son, I am a Karen in her 30's and never met another one younger than me before!
Eidith and Enid were both on my girl list for baby!
Arthur made a come back a few years back!

Many of these are back already! There are children at nursery called Audrey, Dorothy, Lilith, Margaret, Margery, Mary and I expect to see a Doris, Vera, Nancy and Phylis soon.

Names that I think with stay dead & buried - Algernon, Keith, Kevin, Gene, Karen, Sue, Julie, Amanda,Claire... boomer & Gen x names will be very passé for a long while til they are desirable again I think

My whole family have been mentioned on this thread.

I have never met a single person with my name that likes the name.

Mine is a truly awful name. I am thinking of changing it as it is so bad

None of my parents, grandparents or great grandparents names are here

I'm a 1970's Susan. Thanks Parents

Malcolm is in the book of dust so will have a comeback

Alexa must now be less common...!

Percy’s already back!

Not only Alexa but other names with that ending, Alexa responds to my name which is -sa but a totally different start.

Ethel
Edna
Maud
Muriel
Doris
Pamela
Sandra

I've met quite a few baby Ediths in the past year :)

Clifford.

I haven’t RTFT but I love the name Percy :-)

Loads of these I can totally see coming back!

Daphne is lovely! I like Cuthbert too!

Paula... Trevor... Carol... June... Joan (although I can totally picture a baby Joanie/Joni)...Bill as a nickname...Mavis... Derek...Nigel...

I heard a Percy being called the other day. I wonder if anything in particular revived it? A mass outbreak of insanity possibly? It's bloody awful. The wettest name ever.

Well second wettest having just been reminded of the hideous Cuthbert.

I named my daughter the shortened name of Edith - Edie 😊 there are loads and loads of Evie’s where we live but not any Edie’s yet!
Someone further back said the name Hope was dead and buried but my American cousins 6 year old is named that!

I work where I get to know all new baby names. Most of those have been used recently

I know of a baby Percy. I think it is quite sweet.

I know of a baby Percy. Think teasing based on a well known M&S sweet will be inevitable......🐷

There's a lot of Victorian names that seem pretty much extinct over a century on... Isambard, Erasmus, Bartamius, StJohn. It would take a brave bohemion type to revive them.

To really kill off a name it needs a negative association and was never popular anyway or the meaning has changed literally or socially. Jezebel, Judas, Gay/ Gaynor/ Gaylord, Adolf, Chastity. I know a young Delilah which is a nice name phoneticly, and reduced levels of churchgoing is probably reducing the association with the biblical temptress.

Give it a decade or two and the 50s-60s names will loop back into fashion as the 1900s-1930s names have done, and those will have peaked and be declining.

Shirley
Godfrey

Willy, Wally, Dick and Fanny

StJohn is being revived in the US but using a phonetic spelling so they can cope with it.

There are plenty of Adolfs in Austria.

My 11 month old granddaughter is Gloria, it suits her. I think should look at names as a collection of letters making sounds and step away from it's this and it's that....
If you like the sound use it I say
I also have a grandson Rex, how dare a 'dog's ' name be used!!!
Think outside the box!

Gladys
Clifford
Gertrude
Peregrine
Joslyn
Fitzwilliam
Adolf
Herman
Tracey
Sandra
Kayleigh
Wolfgang