Resurgence of names

[Mydogsnotfat]

I,ve been seeing a few threads about baby names coming back into fashion and some of the names mentioned are from my own childhood. I’m 53 and very used to Clare’s, Jane’s, Joanne’s. However I’m reading a book in which two of the characters are called Dulcie and Sally. I had an Auntie Dulcie and there’s a Sally in my family although older but I’ve ne ver me t a baby or small child called either. This may be as my children are older but are some names perfectly nice but just fade away into obscurity? I’d love to hear the names you like but never hear.

I like Dulcie. I also like Lorna but never hear it now.

I think Sarah and Susan are lovely. Just something very understated but somehow warm, kind and sunny about them. And my colleague called her baby boy Paul recently. She and her husband are Romanian and it’s a perfectly normal baby name there without the middle aged connotations it has here. It’s grown on me: I’d like to hear of more baby Pauls!

I think they’ll all come back in a couple of decades, along with other names of their generation. Our parents’ generation would have thought Wilfred, Archie, Arthur, Florence, Pearl and Elsie had died out for good - but no.