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!

Fanny

Few Richards are called Dick these days!

Violet (lovely name but too much risk of it being spelled 'Violent')

I think most of the others could come back. Arthur is making a comeback already - I've met several small boys with that name.

I can remember as a child in the 90's thinking names like Millie, Lily, Rosie, Ivy, May, Charlie, Freddie, Bobby, Henry etc were elderly person names. My DM worked in an old peoples home and lots of the residents ( aged mostly in their 80's and 90's) had those names. Now they are all the rage again. Names go in cycles.

I work in a primary school and over the last few years have come across a Doris, an Iris, a Rita and several Elsie's. Rita was presumably after Rita Ora, but before she came along I always associated as an older lady name, mainly because of Rita from Coronation Street! Some has mentioned Mabel/Mable. But there is now a pop singer called Mabel as well.

Derek
Gary
Malcolm
Lindsey
Raymond

Pauline
Sharon
Karen
Carol
Janet
Deborah

Susan
Tina
Karen
Carol
Claire
Julie

John
Graham
Jeffrey

O glad noone said June,you never hear it much now but i spose its better than many names.lol My mum couldnt think of anything to call me and as i was born in June June it was,Frances after my cousin is second so guess compared with many names around at time,neither that bad.

I love Sarah, Emma, Claire, Rachel, Rebecca, Louise etc

My sister once dated a guy called Aubrey. I think she dumped him because we teased her so much.

Cyril, Cecil .

Well I know a young Trevor, he's about 19, cool guy actually

Fanny

My teenage son is an Alan

I've not read the entire thread, I'm assuming Fanny and Dick have already been mentioned? Oh and Willy 😁

I know babies called Julia and Catherine and a 4 year old David.

I know a Percy and a Thaddeus. Both under 10yrs old. Poor buggers.

My name’s been mentioned a few times. I’ve learned to live with it over the years. There was probably only a couple of others with the same name at school.

Popular names during my school days were Trac(e)y, Sharon (loads of them) Julie, Clare/Claire, Mandy/Amanda, Debra, Michelle, Louise, Joanne/a

I have a Winifred and know of three more under seven.

I think Barry, Clive, Gary, Tracy and Sharon won’t be back for a long time.

I have an Edith! Also like Arthur, Maud and Malcolm.

I reckon Maggie will come back once there has been enough time for people to forget Thatcher.

Quite a few "Julia" babies

Girls:

Bertha
Brenda
Vera
Ruth
Martha

Boys:
Dick
Willy
Bob
Gary
Barry

Brian? Derrick?
Pauline?

I'm really happy, always think of my name as super-dated and overused.....but it didn't turn up until page 6...yay!!!!

Brenda
Keith
Kenneth
Gary
Joan
Gladys
Gertrude
Colin
Sharon
Shirley
Sheila

@straycatstrut I know about 5 child Marthas!

Gaylord

Everard