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 name has been listed once as being fucking horrible . My nearly 3 year old is ray and my eldest son middle name is Ian after my dad. I workin a nursing home so most of name are the residents in there . Some are lovely classics names though.
I don't see these names ever being used again
Fanny
Archibald
Kevin
Barry

Tracy
Sharon
Tallulah

As I have read through the thread most of mine have already been said but I would like to add DH name Rodney.

*ryan not ray!

Gertrude.
Phylis.
Phillipa.

Adolf.

(Actually given the way politics is going maybe this is due a comeback too)

Most of these names are from my classes at school in the fifties! Every class had Valerie, Sandra, Lynne, Ann, Christine, Susan, Carol, Janet.....The boys were John, Raymond, Malcolm, Barry, Ken, Colin, Derek, Phillip. Can't see many of those names coming back! I did read somewhere that it's a three-generation thing - people don't want their parents' names, or grandparents' names, but like to consider great -grandparents ' names!

I’ve met a Robert, Maud, Arthur and Nora, all under 5.

Barbara is apparently making a come-back.

Girls' names I don't think will return to favour:
Gertrude
Geraldine
Irene
Mavis
Doris

Boys' names:
Ian
Barry
Brian
Boris
Nigel

Boris

I forgot an "aunt" of mine (not sure how removed the relationship actually was) - Blanche. I've never heard of one since, except from the Golden Girls on TV.

Beryl
Gertrude
Herbert
Cuthbert
Cyril

I know a baby Mona.

Gary derek Malcom

Sandra Sheila Debrah

The only names gone for good have a connotation they can't shake: Adolf, Myra, Garfield, Gay, Fanny, Donald...

I've met a lot of children with names on here, whose parents are from outside the UK and choose without the cultural references. DSs nursery had a Humphrey, Percy, Jean, Colin. School has Claire, Walter, Scott

Hmm, not sure. Know both a pre-school Myra and many small Reggies - not Reginalds - (which connects right away to the surname 'Kray' for me, but I guess not for everybody).

I have a Dorothy!

If I have a girl I will use Barbara - I think babs is so cute for a little one and a bit worldly for an adult

Ooh, I forgot Joyce and Beryl!

I think David Mitchell/Victoria Coren-Mitchell's daughter is called Barbara? Good on 'em.

My gran was called Queenie. Probably not coming back into fashion!

Not a name I dislike, but I think Dawn might disappear as one of those once popular names. Also, Patricia, Dora, Sylvia, Gwen. My nan was a Doreen, although she pronounced it more like Doe-reen as she wanted to be more posh than she was!! Ha ha. My mum was a Jacqueline, my sister is Joanne, Dad is a Ernest, and brother is a Nicholas. All names in the at risk category maybe? I'm a Melanie, so again maybe not going to be popular anytime soon??!!

The only names that are probably gone for good are ones that have acquired a connotation of some sortGaye, Dick, Fannyand ones with a horrible sound "inside" them, like Mildred (dread), Gertrude (rude), Morag (rag) and one or two others. I think the invention of margarine did for Margery/Marjorie as well. Pity, as it's pretty name if you could only get over the artificially hydrogenated butter substitute connotations.

Everything else is coming back at some point. Why shouldn't names like Amanda, Linda, Pauline, Derek, Gerald come back into fashion at some point? When I was growing up, people would have thought it was really weird to call your child Albert, Edith or Mabel--now nobody gives them a second glance.

You just need to wait until the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of people with these names start having babies of their own, and by then the names will have lost the “boring elderly or middle aged name that was overused in the 50s / 60s / 70s etc” feel.

Then you’ll be seeing all those currently unfashionable names like Doreen, Trevor, Gary, Tracy etc etc reappearing in baby announcements.

Because most of them, all that’s wrong with them is that they were popular enough in previous decades to feel dated now, and like a name you’d associate with an adult of whatever age than with a small child.

Shadofall exactly. I expect my under-tens will be like 'Trevor is an unusual and classy name mum ' in twenty five years.

TBH, Maud, Agatha, Dorothy, Neville, Reggie, Arthur, Edith, Daphne, Pearl, Humphrey, Lavinia is like an average nursery roll call round North London. Hordes of them, I have one!

Courtney
Dolly/Polly etc
Sabrina