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!

Yep, I know of baby a Maud and Edith (Edie). I reckon Vera will come around again soon because it is a good name. Robert has about another 20-30 years before it’s hip again. Paul is a saint’s name so will always be with us, but is probably about 30 years off being in vogue again.

You have to think of the generation currently with that name & them getting old/passing away, then add a few years for it to resurface. My friend named her baby girl Ruby in 1998. Her MIL was horrified about giving the baby “an old lady name.” For the brave pioneers and hipsters reanimating the name, it’s an old person’s name and the parents get side-eye from friends and family. Ten years later we are overrun with them and there are 3 in every primary school class in England.

Fanny obviously

StJohn! Have never met one in real life.

I have! He was the older brother of my uni flatmate’s ex. He lived up to every posh, borderline aristo stereotype you can imagine, but he was also a nice guy and a decent house guest.

He pronounced his name ‘sinjun’, which I understand is the usual way.

Kenneth.

FRANK!

Linda
Susan
Pat
Derek
Jason
Clive
Anything popular in the 50s and 60s really

I teach a Frank.
I also know (some toddlers, some teenagers)
Vera
Keith
Graham
Geoffrey
Agatha
Maud
Percy
all mentioned on here.

And I teach a Linda

My oldest son is called Darren - I guess that ages me!

What's wrong with Nicola? There's 4 in DD's year (age 5/6)

Mildred
Gladys

Ernest
Herbert

Ian
Bertha

Er, What’s wrong with Julie !!! 🤷‍♀️😁

I was named after my nana who was a Julia (I prefer that to Julie tbh)
Julia could make a return because of Julia Hartley-Brewer maybe?

I know a 3 year old Doris

Nigel, Brian, Malcolm, Joanne, Wendy, Enid

Mildred. Awful name. It's like a hybrid of mildew and dread.

Any very young Kay’s out there? I’d group it in with the Janet, Linda and Alison era of names but have recently become aware of a couple of teenage Kay’s.

Peter anyone? Haven’t seen it mentioned.

I love the name Kay for a boy 😊

I know/know of three Peters aged 15 and younger

Tracey
Debbie
Jackie
Cheryl
Theresa
Jean
Lisa
Brenda

Jake
Craig
Barry
Hugh
Ian
Malcolm
Grant
Norris

Jake is current

cyril and cecil. i have a new granchild on the way and its either ada or elsie Ted or arthur hoping for ted or elsie

Lol a girl I know just had a baby boy and called him Percy.

She's a HUGE snob and clearly thinks it's really quirky and alternative. Everyone else just thinks it sounds like something you'd name your pet pig.

Gary.

Surely there are no baby Gary's out there?

My name has appeared on this thread, and I’ll admit, I’m shocked. I’ve always loved my name, and I know of one in every generation since (I was born in the 60s), but it’s not a widely used name.

My lovely parents and grandparents are on here, as is my sister. My brother has escaped!