What names do you think will never be revived?

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I don’t think I’ll ever hear of a baby Gary.

I know two adult Gary’s and both are in their 50’s now

@ginghamtablecloths

I can't imagine Ethel and Gladys coming back but you never know.

They have. And Olive.

Herbert.

@Tzimi - yes it can be a first name. I think it's fab! Can't think of an example at the moment though!

@Bargebill19

Herbert.

My brother & SIL have just named my nephew this, as a middle name though.

@Doublechins

Fantastic and congratulations!

I’ve always thought it’s a lovely name, sadly not heard/known a Herbert for 40 years. Well overdue.

@MagicSummer Really, is St John a first name? I once knew someone who had that surname, but never heard of it as a given name.

There is a character with that name in 'Jane Eyre'. Never come across it in person, or in connection with anyone in the last 150 years, however. Though there was the politician called Norman StJohn Stevas, but I think that was the first half of his double-barrelled surname, not a middle name.

I used to go school with a St John it's pronounced Sin Jen

St John is my cousin's middle name. He's in his fifties.

Yes the St John I went to school with will be 46/47 now

St. John is just the most formal name I can imagine giving a child. I picture someone so austere and pious, must be the St. John Rivers connection. A millstone of a name I'd say.

Cedric
Mansfield
Arthur
Margot

@Pyewhacket

Cedric Mansfield Arthur Margot

Arthur is the 3rd most popular boys' name. Or something like that. And Margots are everywhere!

Haven't heard of any little Cedrics I'll grant you. And never met a person called Mansfield.

I also went to school with an Hermione ,this was in the late 70,s early 80,s long before Harry potter .

Ramsey
Agapanthus
Milton
Willerby

I know a couple of young Hectors, also a Connie (Constance) and a Quentin.

I also know a teen Peter.

I can't imagine these making a come though:
Adolf
Herbert
Edeltraud
Regina

Never met anybody called Arthur or Margot

@MotherWol I know two hildas... both younger than me and I'm in my 30's

I also know a 5 yr old called Kevin.

My father is called Mansfield , shortened to Mani. He’s a Wall Street Banker, and I don’t mean rhyming slang .

My sister is called Gaye , don’t know many with that handle .

My mother is almost 90. She said that as a teenager, she desperately wanted to be called Margaret because that's what the fashionable girls were called. Whereas her best friend was called Emma, and they all felt sorry for her because she had such an old fashioned dreary name.

Keith

@RedLlama

Terence

That's the name we'll be bringing back if I ever manage to fall Pregnant again and have a Boy.

Karen, I just don't see a baby called Karen anymore

There’s thousands of little Arthur’s out there. It’s shot up in popularity over the last decade or so.
It was the 4th most popular boys name in England and Wales in 2019.

Ethel.

Elsie
Maurice
Herbert
Betty
Ernest
Ena