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!

I would never call a baby this but Dwayne just makes me think of Dwayne Johnson - The Rock which will never be a bad thing for me.

Alan
Nigel
Keith

Oh you'd be amazed! I see a good number of these at work with newborns
Often get sons named after their dad.
Baby Gary, baby Keith etc
Am appalled and offended to see my name in the list

Ralph - reminds me of that Judy Blume book...

I know a 3 month old Ralph. His parents are in their late twenties.

I must admit, I quite like Ralph

Ralph is actually in the top 100 baby names in England and Wales. It came in at number 88 in 2018. (2019 statistics aren’t available yet)

names.darkgreener.com/#ralph

Sharon
Tracey

Trevor
Keith

Dorothy is a lovely name.

2 Percies in my ds class. Met a baby David, what first sounded weird as I think of Daves as middle aged but now like it. Paul and Pauline really really popular (top 10) in my home country atm.

How about Nancy and Joyce? Dinah seems to me to be unresurrected old lady too, but perhaps it's been revived in some circles.

At my primary school there was a Catherine, Sarah, Linda, Tracey x 2, Karen x 2, Caroline, Melanie, Helen. Amanda/Mandy, Lisa among others.

I can't remember the boys as much but there were Andrew, Nicholas, Paul x 2, Mark and Marc, Thomas among others.

At secondary I was at an all girls' school and there was Anna, Angela, Amanda, Maria, Nikki/Nicola/Nicole, Kathy/Kathryn, Donna, Susan, Sarah, Joanne/Jo-Anne, Christy, Claire/Clare, Kirsty, Sharon.

There was a David at nursery with one of my DC a few years ago. I was surprised to discover that it’s actually still in the top 50 boys names, I’d thought it was way less popular than that.

It’s definitely a name that I think of as more middle aged, I’ve met a ridiculous number of David’s and Dave’s that are around my age or a bit older.

Clive
Terry
Derek
Jason
Dennis

Joyce
Wanda
Wendy
Gladys
Sharron

Can you imagine a baby Brenda?!

Edna
Edwina
Gertrude
Ethel
Mildred
Maude

Mervin

I know a 4 year old Kevin

Gertrude.
Clarence.
Winifred.
Agnes.
Colin.
Cuthbert.

Fanny
Beryl
Margaret

Clive
Roy
Gordon
Sheila
Sheena

Anyone know any Fanny’s? Thought not.

But fanny is a nickname :s I know some Stephanie's

I think ALL the ghastly current late-middle-aged/elderly names, ie. Leslie, Terence, Brian / Doreen, Sheila, Janet, that were handed out in the 30s-40s, all these names are going to make a comeback in a generation's time.

Well I think they will!

Because look how all those 'elderly' names like Ivy, Stan & Mabel suddenly became popular baby names in the 1980s! & I think history will repeat itself.

Percy is lovely as is Arthur and they have already definitely made a comeback.

I can’t imagine 60s/70s names such as Barry, Trevor, Bernard, Joanne, Janet, Janice, Janine, Phillip, Paul, John, Mark etc making a comeback but they will do, names always do.

There’s a Travis and Elspeth in my DC’s school.

Well I dread to think what future grandchildren will be called! Maybe my DM is about the names of her's who are teens/early 20s

"Mum, it's twins! And we are going to call them Barry and Pauline"