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!

I’ve always thought Myra is a pretty name. Shame it’s unusable now

A friend's toddler granddaughter is called Ada.

The cat next door is named Barry

I’ve met a baby Gary within the last 12 months!

My 2.5yr old daughter just called her new baby boy doll Malcolm. Where on earth she got it from I don't know

I too think Myra would be much more popular if it wasn't for the despicable Moores murders. Mind you there's plenty of Ians about.

I’ve always thought Myra is a pretty name. Shame it’s unusable now

I knew I'd been looking at the baby name book for too long when I saw 'Myra' and thought that's a nice name, why doesn't anyone use it?

It's odd that Rose is still useable but Myra isn't.

Seeing mention of virtue names, I think they might be on the up soon... We have children called Confidence, Temperance, Patience AND Charity in the infants at my school. I like them, I think that they're nnicer than Disney Princess /soap opera inspired names

Is because it's an unusual name. I think if her name was Jane no one would turn a hair about all the Janes waltzing around.

It's odd that Rose is still useable but Myra isn't.

It isn't odd. Rose was/is a much more common name than Myra so people have other more positive connotations associated with it, unlike Myra which was much less common and therefore has fewer alternative associations.

Anita
Susan
Suzanne

My family is packed full of Allans so I think it’s a lovely name.

I know you get Jillians, Kevins and two Stephens.

Younger not you get

Madein1995 There are loads of little Arthur's around. I know three 6 year old Arthur's and there are 2 in my GSs nursery class

I know a very chic woman who just called her baby Jacqueline!

Sorry if it's been mentioned already but I find it interesting how the names of arguably the most iconic Hollywood actresses of all time (Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe) haven't seen (to my knowledge) a massive resurgence in the UK at least. Happy to be corrected

I know babies/kids with quite a lot of these names ( including StJohn) and agree the 1920s names such as Mary, Sylvia, Malcolm, Barbara will be the next wave of names. Some I don’t think ever will come back such as Clifford or Cyril or Doreen

That’s because the generation that was named after them is far too recent and still with us! Audrey is just as likely to suggest that Coronation Street character as Audrey Hepburn for many peoole — and I certainly had classmates called Audrey is the 70s and 80s — and the Marilyns I’ve come across are mostly in their 70s.

Sorry, that was to @cluecu.

Fanny

I'm such a child 😂

Karen
Linda
Patricia
Shirley
Sheila

Kevin
Gary
Steven
Paul
Brian

I'd have said things like Florence and Ada but I know primary school aged girls with those names. And Florence gets Flossie, yuck.

Ida, Nora.

Ethel making a comeback, really? It's such an old ladies name.

Maybe Karen, Tracey, Sharon, but who knows if the above are coming back. Everything obviously has its time - and then again.

I met an Adolf in the early 90s and he was in his 20s! He was German, not from another country. Goodness knows what possessed his parents.

Theres a 6yr old Darren at my school

Actually thinking about it, my teen DD has an Ian and a Jonathan in her year. Betty is gaining in popularity again.
If I'd had another daughter, Suzannah, nn Suzi, would have been a contender. No naming after grandmothers though...Ethel and Nellie!

Nora
Norma
Marilyn
Marjorie

Sidney
Ronald
Norman