Names that are never coming back

[Beancounter1]

Names that been in common use since about 1850 (so nothing from ancient history like Ethelberger or whatever), that are well and truly dead, as in no babies are likely to be called this now.

How about:
Mildred ?
Edna ?
Mortimer ?

Can you think of any others?

Hilda
Pamela
Valerie
Doreen
Vivian
Donald
Ronald
Phyllis

Oh and Lesley

@MegaClutterSlut My Grandma's name was Winifred and I have her middle name as my first name and both my first and second name are on this list sigh

LOL, well, here in the USA, "Donald" has taken a real nose-dive. I once had a rather wonderful rat named "Mortimer." A real little Houdini. I had to keep his cage door shut with a combination lock. I miss that rat.

Anthea
Christina
Algonin
Noel
Tamara

Fanny
Maude
Cuthbert
Ebenezer

Names seem to go in roughly 100 year cycles. Some of the names that my mother's generation had (born 1920) are popular again now.

I was born in the 1950s and few of my classmates' names are used for babies now. Perhaps when we are in our 90s rather than our 60s, another generation has been born, and the names from my childhood will be in vogue again.

A few from schooldays:
Julie
Barbara
Marion
Janet
Maureen
Deborah
Deirdre
Wendy
Sylvia
Ann

Raymond
Gordon
Mervyn
Brian
Eric
Gerald
Nigel
Derek
Simon
Victor

@YourWinter Which names from your mother's generation are popular again out of interest?

There is not a name out there that won't come back at some point or other - I would like to think that Adolf would be an exception, but I fear that even it might crawl back in after another 50 years or so. I may think/hope that the awful/slightly made-up names of my 1960s-70s generation (I have one, so am not going to embarrass my cohorts by actually listing them) should die a deserved death, but will also bet real money that our grandchildren will - unfortunately - revive them. Would happily put a codicil in my will: "do not inflict any future grandchild or great-grandchild with 'Bridgespot'; please, for the love of all that's holy, find something more dignified" but future generations will want what they want. That said, maybe my great-grandmother had qualms about her ultra-trendy but at the time not very dignified 1880s name, and I did seriously mull it over for my daughter.

There's a Janet in my daughters class. I got a shock when I heard her being called at home time

Barbara

Hard to imagine a baby Tracy or Sharon now, but maybe they’ll have a revival in 20 years when people decide they’re vintage rather than dated.

I think the 60'/70's names will make a come back unfortunately..
Although I think...
Horace
Maurice
Sandra
Deidre
Gladys
Humphey

Are gone....rip

In the school I work in we have some small Nepalese children with names of elderly coronation street characters - I’m
Convinced the parents watch soaps to absorb some British culture and they have drawn names from CS

There’s a Vera in my 6 year old DD class .

Victoria Coren and David Mitchell named their daughter Barbara.

@Poolbridge

Beryl Sheila

Youll see some Sheilas (Síle) in Ireland still

Lots of Brian’s in my kids school. There’s a Derek too. He’s from Africa. Often foreign kids have old English names

@Mariell

Nicola. Joanne. Sharon. Mark. Richard. Jeremy. Helen.

Those are some of my classmates names in the 70s that I don’t think I’ve seen being used in the last couple of decades.

You’ll see some Mark’s in the schools

@TheChosenTwo

In the school I work in we have some small Nepalese children with names of elderly coronation street characters - I’m Convinced the parents watch soaps to absorb some British culture and they have drawn names from CS

When I was at uni thirty years ago there were a lot of students from far East Asia whose chosen English names were always those of an older generation than their peers.

Eatallday, and Richard and Jeremy.

Midwife here.in the last 5 years, I’ve delivered 2 Gary’s

I’ve also delivered
Keith
Margaret
Lots of Stanley’s
Primrose
Eric
Sally
Vinnie
Marjorie
Margot
Iris
Ronnie
Sylvia
Vivienne
Winnifred
Ena

Myra ....

I know kids called Vera, Maxine, Paula, Audrey and Kay.

@Maireas

Ian will come back. It's a classic

A lot of killers seem to be called Ian. I dislike it.

Wendy, Joan, Pauline, Mavis.
Norbert, Alan, Norman, Granville, Boris and Chad.
Shame about Levi, it's a nice Jewish name (more of a shame for his victims though)