Baby names that will never make a come back

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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?

With you on most of these OP, but “Paul”? I know lots of Pauls under 10!

I’d like Beryl to come back, in the same way that Elsie did.

DS2 (3) has a friend in his nursery class called Stephanie. Was a bit of a surprise, mostly because he mispronounced it and I thought he was calling her Destiny for about 3 months!

Dennis

Gladys
Bertha
Gertrude
Muriel
Mavis

My name is still so unpopular it has not appeared as any of the options as potential comeback or not.

Surprised some babies were called isis in the last couple of years.

DD has a 4 yr old Valerie in her nursery class!

Darren. I grew up with a few but haven't met one under 40.

Gladys, Gertrude, Nelly, Petunia, Percy, Bernard, Godfrey, Malcolm.

It's a family middle name now but my auntie was a Claire/Clara depending on the country she was living in at the time.

My 3-year-old has one of these names 😁

I know a month old Herbert nn Herbie. Also taught a Norbert........

Sharon
Tracy
Bruno
Elsa
Karen
Joanne
Seigfried
Tiffany
Britney
Kylie
Princess Consuela Banana Hammock

I know an 11 year old Mark and Stanley and a Tim who's 9 (but it is short for a Nigerian name, not Timothy).

I last taught a Claire about v 15 years ago.
Never taught a Clive. Or a Cliff. Or a gareth. Or a Gary or a Wendy. Or a Pamela.

I met a baby Susan a couple of weeks ago and she was the cutest wee baby I've ever seen. I think it's a really pretty name and it suited her.

I actually know a baby Gaylord!

Beryl, Gladys, Bertha, Edna and Queenie for me. I can’t see them making a comeback!

Maureen
Brenda
Horace (my dear grandads name!)
Trevor
Malcolm

I loved my nanna to bits but her name was Alma and even she said it was old fashioned and hated it. My grandad was called Eric which apart from Simon Cowel I can't see anyone using it today.

@tinselvestsparklepants and @TheDuchessOfMN
my DS is 8 and has a Kevin in his class!

Julie/ Julia
Christine
Michael
Jason
Stuart
Carol/ Caroline
Bernadette

I know of loads of babies and toddlers with names from this thread. In particular, Audrey, Stanley, Edna and Ernest are names from this thread for which I actually know multiple small children with each name.

There's also lots of names here that have been on my own shortlist for my son and in my current pregnancy, that all my friends have thought are lovely (but my older relatives have thought I was mad for choosing).

they'll all come back, and some of them within the next 10yrs.

I'm of the generation that has those names (1950's - one of my siblings names is on the list) and we would never have imagined names like William, Harry, Theo, Wilf, Isabella, Alice.... would ever be popular again, they were our grandparent's names, old people's names.

I think Elaine and Claire are lovely names, I hope they come back. I feel like Eric and Mark are already back. And Malcolm is an awesome name.
I remember being genuinely surprised when I heard of a baby Elsie about 8 years ago, that was one name I thought was long gone.