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!

Sandra
Sharon
Tracy
Debbie
Dorothy
Gladys
Ethel etc

Darren
Wayne
Steven
Mark
Cledwyn (ok I might have made that one but I quite like it)

I 've come across quite a few boys called Michael. John and Robert are not ubiquitous like many years ago, but not at all unknown. Not many Claires around, but a few Claras. Admittedly this was in the 90s, but I did meet a small girl called Dorcas, which is probably the most old-fashioned one I've seen personally. I haven't come across a child called Doreen or Doris but have met a couple of Doras.

Dennis and Beryl are very rare now, perhaps because of the associations with Dennis the Menace and Beryl the Peril.

My name isn't on here. Never does appear on threads as it's unusual. However, pretty much my whole family are named here, Including Nora, aged 5.

I did have great-aunts called Dora and Hilda. Dora may be more likely to be used than Hilda. Also had a great aunt Evelyn, who seems to have died young.

I like almost all the names above. It’s all cyclical. And national. Do remember a friend visiting France and a woman saying how much they love the name Kevin there. With the accent obvs. Here it was considered well naff.

Susan

“I come from a long line of Fannys.
Granny was a Fanny”. (Etc from the Irn Bru advert.
Don’t know if that got shown in England but I near pissed my pants when I saw it

Sharon, Dorothy, Prunella, Victoria
Chris, Fred, Wayne, Julian

Sorry, nrtft, but my dgms were

Freda
Hilda

Can't see any of those those making a trendy comeback any time this century

I’ve just had a Mabel Rosemary on New Years Eve. I love old fashioned names. I wanted Mavis but DP vetoed that one. They weren’t in the top 100 names of 2018, hoping they didn’t make 2019 either.

It’s names like carol, Keith, Gary, Paul, Bernadette that I think wont come back at all

A work colleague’s relation had a baby recently. I asked after the baby’s name.....Bernard!!!!!!

Our Vicar’s dog is called Percy - Percy the Labradoodle. I rather like the name and did think it was not quite right for a dog. Curly would suit him better 😀

Boris

Craig
Graham
Marvin
Gary
Chelsea
Simon
Pauline
Prudence
Keith
Timothy
Edgar
Adam
Martin

Clive

Agree it's all cyclical. Was reading something (typically can't think what it was now) from c. 120 years ago and so many of the names are back in fashion now!

@Madein1995 every other male baby is called Arthur now.

Most people in this thread are not realising that granny chic is in big time with names currently

In my youth I dated a Horace and a Gilbert, at the same time!

I was going to call my DD Mary Ann 🙈
Is it wrong that I actually like a lot of these names? It's a lot of the unusual names I don't like.

@CreekIsRising I know a 10yo chardonnay and a 14yo tegan!
Mine, my 2 brothers, my mums, both grandmothers and my dads names are on the list!

Joyce
Maureen
Alan
Bernard

Hilda
Ethel
Janice
Sharon
Rita
Marlene
Valerie
Glenys

Norman
Archibald
Mervyn
Colin
Harold
Wayne
Frederick
Geoffrey
Cyril
Kevin
Bruce

So many of these names are back in vogue eg Daphne, Mary, Vera, etc. To me ,Linda, Terry, Sandra , Keith and Doreen seem 'beyond the pale' but the same could have been said of Nora, Ada and Maud a few years ago so Tracy and Sharon will be right back when my DC have children.

Although I haven't met a Millicent or Mildred who was under retirement age, Millie is not that uncommon among the small girls I know. It's not uncommon for children to be given names that used to be short for something as their full names: e.g. Beth seems commoner than Elizabeth; Alfie than Alfred; Freddie than Frederick.

I think there'll be no Borises, Jeremys or Nigels for a while, because of their controversial associations (if you have any of these names, 50% of people will be against you just on hearing them!) And Donald - bad enough that for a long time it's been associated with a Disney duck; now it's associated with a terrible president!

Walter

I'm loving posters contributions