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Which 'old fashioned' names do you wish would make a comeback?

122 replies

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 25/07/2022 16:37

My last baby is 3 mo, so not something I need to worry about, but was just thinking about this:

  • Lettice
  • Anne
  • Georgiana
  • Clemency
  • Ambrosine
  • Adelaine
  • Otteline
  • Margaret
  • Barbara
  • Julia
  • Shirley
  • June
  • Patricia
  • Pandora
  • Diana
  • Kenneth
  • Harold
Wh would you like to add?
OP posts:
TeapotTitties · 25/07/2022 17:36

Bertram
Aubrey

HerRoyalHappiness · 25/07/2022 17:38

Bernadette biased because I have a not so little Bernadette

Oldbutnotmature · 25/07/2022 17:38

Josephine.

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DisforDarkChocolate · 25/07/2022 17:39

I love Lettice. Can't imagine it ever coming back sadly.

I also love Clothilde, this one I wish I'd used.

Tegelflughafen · 25/07/2022 17:53

Astrid
Edeline
love Araminta ’minty’

Candelabrassiere · 25/07/2022 17:55

Jean - might sound frumpy to some but I just think of Ms Shrimpton!

riotlady · 25/07/2022 17:59

I love Linda and Julie but they’re in the awkward in between phase of too old to be modern and not old enough to have come back round again.

Housewife2010 · 25/07/2022 18:00

PeekabooAtTheZoo · 25/07/2022 16:55

So many!
Darrell,
Dinah,
Julian,
Colin,
Adeline,
Everard,
Evelyn (for boys or girls),
Sally,
Peter,
Julian,
Roberta,
Cecily,
Timothy,
Heather,
George,
Henry,
Hepzibah (Hepsy for short)…
Just off the top of my head.

Henry and George have been popular for the last ten years.

Enko · 25/07/2022 18:02

Horatio and Reginald

dropthevipers · 25/07/2022 18:06

Until mum put her foot down dad was going to call me Hereward (after hereward the wake, Anglo saxon freedom fighter and nut job) the older I get the cooler I think that would have been.

pastabest · 25/07/2022 18:07

How many years until the names of the 70s and 80s come back round

Vicky
Amanda
Hayley
Sarah
Claire
Laura
Julie
Alison
Rebecca
Samantha
Sian
Kelly
Bethany
Lauren
Rachel
Hannah
Michelle
Michaela
Jodie
Joanne
Lisa
Jennifer
Tina
Helen
Dawn
Nichola
Lindley
Louise
Jane
Tracy
Liz
Natalie
Gemma
Donna

Michael/ Mike
Lewis
Ian
Kieran
Nick
Steven
Paul
John
Chris
Neil
Andrew
David
Peter
Gavin
Martin/ Martyn
Adam
Mark
Craig
Daniel
Phil
Keith
Lee
Richard
Sean / Shannon
Scott
Luke
Darren
Tony
Ryan
Jason
Graham
Liam
Simon
Stuart

CherryRipe1 · 25/07/2022 18:08

Florence, Elsie, Cecelia, Nellie, Edith and Cornelia (I had a great aunt with that name)

PlanetNormal · 25/07/2022 18:12

Sheila
Janice
Marie
Patricia
Maureen
Marion
Angela

Norman
Derek
Alan
Martin
Nigel
Clive

BruceAndNosh · 25/07/2022 18:15

Florence
Edith - a friend has an Edith and it totally suits her

Berlinlover · 25/07/2022 18:16

Patricia definitely.

darisdet · 25/07/2022 18:18

I don't think it was ever in fashion, in the UK, to make a comeback (like a couple on your list) but I like Guinevere.

No idea about naked for boys. Percy?

darisdet · 25/07/2022 18:19

Names, not naked Shock
Weird autocorrect

darisdet · 25/07/2022 18:20

Shirley could be nice now if that hasn't had a mention yet.

upinaballoon · 25/07/2022 18:38

Malcolm There aren't enough Malcs in the world.

QuattroFromagio · 25/07/2022 18:43

Jodie/Jody
Sandra
Heather
Sarah
Nicola
Julie
Michelle

PipinwasAuntieMabelsdog · 25/07/2022 18:48

I have found my people! All of these are lovely! Is anyone else on the thread a fan of 1930s-1950s fiction by any chance?

OP posts:
Stabbitystabstab · 25/07/2022 18:55

Gladys
My Nan's name and I love it!

Kimwexlerr · 25/07/2022 18:59

Sharon
tracey
darren
wayne
jayne
lorraine
kim

Gatekeeper · 25/07/2022 19:05

I love...

Joan
Alison
Marion
Audrey
Ralph
Laurence

Goesbothways · 25/07/2022 19:05

Ruth
Mary
Sharon