Baby names that will never make a come back

[pinkspaghetti]

I think there was a thread along these lines a few months ago but I couldn't find it so I thought I'd start another one.

Here are a few of the names that my friends' parents were called when I was growing up that I can't imagine anyone ever calling a baby........

Elaine
Yvonne
Jackie
Sheila
Pat
Pauline
Tina
Joan

Mark
Paul
Ray
Nigel
Alan
Ken
Neville
Brian

I also thought about highly unlikely names for baby twins in 2023 and came up with a few....

Malcolm and Wendy
Jason and Sandra
Russell and Paula
Gary and Judith

Any others?

Dennis
Keith
Alan
Michelle
Dawn
Graham
Kenneth
Denise
Gail

Bernard

There were twins in dds school called Reggie and Doris! I mean to me they are old people names buy clearly not to their parents!
You only need a famous footballer called Darren and there you go.

Thanks @pinkspaghetti

I opened the thread and thought hopefully my name would appear and you didn't.disappoint me 😊
It's an awful name and should definitely never make a comeback.

Percy is definitely making a comeback! I've met 3 in the last year all toddlers/babies

Karen and Alexa.

It does depend on your age of course, and past associations with ‘older’ names. I would shudder at the thought of naming a child Sheila, Andrea or Elaine (or worst of all Deirdre), but to someone without those connotations all would sound lovely.
But not Norman. That is a hideous name.

I know the following children under 5 years:
Joy (names after grandparent called Joyce)
Susan
Jean
Joan
Percy

The ones that are really dying out here are :
Paul
Gary
Darren
Louise
Claire

i don’t know anyone under 40 with those names. But, in another 40 years when that generation starts dying off, they’ll have revival.

Oh yes there I met a 3 year old Doris at the park

I don’t think Mark and Paul have gone away

Trevor
Marcus
Lorraine
Gillian

Nah, some of those will come back. We've got babies now called Ada and Elsie and Iris- all names when I was growing up that were "granny names" and which people would have said were never coming back.

I would love to be privy to some of the conversations hipster couples have about naming their babies and trying to pick a name that's so unfashionable that it's cool in an ironic way.

Bert.

If there are any hipster couples expecting twins I dare you to go with Grant and Janice.......

Brenda
Norma
Ethel
Yvonne
Julie
Maureen

Lionel
Geoffrey
Cyril
Cecil
Trevor
Boris

I met a baby Ronnie the other day. Both he and his mum were cool as can be.

Karen
Graham

Some of you need to work in primary schools for a while. A lot of these names on here are in use, we have 2 little Denises plus Eileens and a Jeff, Ian and Judith at school where I work.

theres a toddler Doris at my DC’s nursery! Known as Dorrie.

Maud and Percy were on our shortlist for our 4 month old 😂

I know someone with a baby Joan.

Didn’t frank and Christine lampard call their baby Patricia? That’s a real oldie

Jean has already made a comeback. Very trendy name.

Iain Collins (Talk TV) was on recently saying he had asked his mother why she'd named him as a sound. He kept saying his name was pathetic as it's just 'eeen'!