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!

My DD 's middle name has been mentioned a few times. Personally I think it's due a comeback .

I really wanted it as her first name but DH was for none of it. Come to think of it,his name has popped up a few times as well.

Ian
Simon
Keith
Kevin

Hahaha!! I’m very pregnant and Percy is our boy name-we don’t know what we’re having-love the name!!

Out of the OP list I can see Vera and Percy making a comeback. I’ve seen Vera crop up on Instagram a few times (although I think they’ve all been from people outside the UK) and Percy fits in with the vintage name resurgence and would be ideal for someone who wants something a bit more unusual than Archie, Alfie. Freddie etc.

I can’t see Mildred, Gertrude or Virgil making a come back.

Ah all the best happy hen, if you have your Percy, I'm sure he will be gorgeous.

Eh, one of mines middle name is Frank!

I was thinking of ex boyfriends I have had when I was young and desirable and realise they all had 'meh' names too.

Emmet
Gareth
Paul
John
Christoper
Robert

Lots of these names are already back. Those that think they’ll never come back are out of touch. Some may not be currently “fashionable” in the mass market, but that because the mass market is always behind the times by 20 years.

Lol gossip girl on a similar note, the boys I fancied (we never used the term "fit" back then!) at school when a teen in the 80s:
Matthew
Pete
Rob
Mark

To those saying Daphne - I had a baby Daphne on Sunday!

Daphne reminds me of Neighbours :)

Hmm lads I fancied... there was a Jason, Gary, Barry..... Im just going to stop now actually before I get to my XH's name which I mentioned upthread. I still believe his mother should have been done for child abuse what with his name and his brothers - Darryl and Geoffrey!

The Doris I met was in very affluent rural area (think huge thatched cottages, big old country halls, farms with masses of land etc)where a lot of the children go on to private schools after finishing,

Adolf

Harbottle

Enid
Doric

My DGD is Norah. It suits her.

Frank is not uncommon among small boys, though rare among the 20-somethings.

Chris for Christopher is not as common as 20 years ago, but still far from unknown. Christine is uncommon among younger people, however.

A lot of names do come back. When I was a child, Emma and Sophie were the sort of names that your great-aunts might have, and then became very popular. Later, names like Grace, Florence, Lily, Ruby, Amelia, Arthur, Alfie and Hugo started coming back into fashion. I've even met the occasional Mabel, Maud and Wilfred among young children- am expecting these to revive further. I wouldn't be surprised if Colin and Gareth had a revival soon, due to Colin Firth and Gareth Southgate respectively.

Oh yes Daryl is particularly...
Anyone got a young Dwane?

I like the name Daphne, congratulations on the birth of your lovely girl, bayhorse

To be ahead of the trend you need to pick a name that you think will never come back.

Jake is definitely current, I have one !

Thank you very much Sunshine

So many have a downer on Brian (Bryan) but not Ryan! Curious

Effie

I think it’s impossible to say really, names that were once old hat have now been revived. In fact names that were popular say 15 years ago I don’t think you hear of so much. Seems to be mainly old fashioned names revived which is lovely Especially if family names or previously unheard of modern names.All part of life’s rich tapestry.

'So many have a downer on Brian (Bryan) but not Ryan! Curious'

I think it's not a 'downer' but just that these are of different generations. Ryan was IIRC particularly popular among children born in the 90s, and is still not an uncommon name. Brian was more a name for children born in the 70s or earlier, and is quite uncommon now.

I know two Arthur's of five or under.
Rosemary? Well we have Rose or Rosie.
Lilian-Lily.

My poor mother was Gladys. Now I really would feel sorry for a child...
I used to beg her to use her middle name.