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!

Dennis is a great name! Don't knock it. It's a cool, cool name.
I really like the alternative spelling as well, Denys.
It's a name I would have considered for a DS3. We'll be sticking with the two we've got.

AND I'm married to a Laurence! Another cool name!

Burt

Knew Gary would get loads of mentions It's very outing but I call my son (5) Gary all the time. Not his actual name or anywhere near it for that matter, but it suits him SOOO well. He is just such a Gary

Fanny.

Karen
Linda

I know a lady with a baby Alan

I read something about a celebrity who has a daughter called Vera. Can’t remember who it was. I love the name. Good job I didn’t have a daughter - my son is called Jack!

Ian

I never understand the hate for Linda. Yes, it’s dated, but if you strip that away it’s not an unpleasant sounding name at all.

I love the name Kelly

Tracey
Sarah

Nigel
Clive

I know a baby Dennis!

Playing family bingo here, doing rather well, so far my name, my DH's name, my DM's name, my DF's name, my SIL's name, my MIL's name, my DD's middle name and my DS's middle name have all appeared 😂 even one of my Aunties, one of my Uncles and one of my Cousins names have appeared on the list.
I also know a Lillian and a Felix.

I teach lots of kids called Donald, Malcolm, Norman, Robert...all very popular here. I think they're good names.

I'm not fond of Cyril. Can't imagine a baby called that.

Adolph

my 2 year old granddaughter is Daphne - it's a lovely name and suits her

I love the name Sandra (along with a few others, Malcolm for instance), and it's one I'd consider giving to a future DD. It's partly I like it not as common as my own name but also I knew someone I really respect with this name.

I think most will gradually come back in again due to the cyclical nature of names, and some are already. What used to sound like someone's unmarried spinster aunt starts to sound sophisticated and exotic with enough time. Sometimes, it's the aunt they are named after.

Hmm

Sharon & Barry spring to mind

Wilfred
Violet
Sebastian
Methuselah
Isambard
Balthasar

I thought old style names were ‘trendy’

I must admit India and Saffron wind me up

Gertrude
Penelope
Frances
Maude
Brenda
Barbara

Angus
Gordon
Gregory
Shane
Phillip
Brendan
Douglas
Boris

There is nothing wrong with Deborah or Ruth. Both are lovely biblical names, of heroines, that don't date. I am a Ruth and have always loved it. Similarly Esther, Rebecca, Naomi, Sarah.

I had an ex colleague who once was a land lord swore blind an elderly lady who came into his pub was called Fanny Smells

Doris

Wayne