What names do you think will die completely?

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I think Gary.

Ive only met one and he’s in his 50’s now. Never met a baby Gary

I think Audrey seems to be gaining in popularity. I've seen it quite a lot on baby name threads

Karen its been ruined for life.

Shakira

Amazingly my name isn’t here (I’ve always wanted another name).
Thankfully my daughter’s name isn’t here either!

Lesley
Wendy
Hilary
Hilda

I just think of Basil the dog that used to be in neighbours.😂😂😂

Female versions of male names eg Pauline

And the obvious names associated with bad people/organisations:
Adolf
Myra
Isis
And to some extent: Gary (Glitter), Donald, Maxine (Carr)

Alexa

Karen as it's become an insult

Does class come into it at all? Thinking ‘Hilda’ 1930s maid name. Do the upper classes generally tend to pick the classic & timeless (?)

I wonder about Richard. Although it's a good strong name it's the nick name version that would be the problem!

I think younger Richards go for Rich or Richie in my experience.

David

Any Tonys around these days? I know a few young Tims so Timothy can’t be that unpopular?

A lot of posters just seem to be listing names like Barbara or Kenneth or Sharon or Eileen that have fallen down the charts because they were popular a few generations ago. These names will all be back sooner or later, just as Daisy, Molly, Ruby, Milly, Alfie, Maisie, Harry, Ella etc came back (all these sound like great-grandparents' names to me).

If I had to pick unlikely returners: Enid, Mildred, Cedric, Gertrude, Millicent, Gilbert, Gladys, Edeltraut...but you never know.

Adolf has a long road back.

David is never going to die out ,it might not be particularly popular at the moment but it's a traditional name

Edna, Gertie, - I had great-aunts with those names, born at turn of the last century! Some old granny names are 'in', but not those.

For boys I think it's more names of the 70s like others have mentioned - Roger comes to mind as well!

I don't think Biblical names will disappear completely either.

I know a very new Olive.

And bobs a slob! (Also my ex :-)

I've lived next-door to a Winnie and an Iris, both very young girls.
Heard of Basil for a newborn and also Maud, a teenager.
The Edwardian names like Lily made a big comeback but I can't see some of the names really common mid-20th century like Joan and Doris breaching the wall.

There are 3 Wilfred's in my son's year at school, they all go by Wilf.

I work in maternity we've had two boys born in past couple of months named Percy.

I know a 6 year old Dawn, it really suits her!

My granddaughter who lives in the USA is called Hilda ❤️, the connotation regarding Hilda Ogden doesn’t matter over there and Hilda suits her.

People don't generally call babies the names of ordinary, not particularly attractive people they know aged between 55 and 80. (Except perhaps to give a middle name in honour of a well loved grandparent).
By the time these people have been dead for 20 years there names will be in period dramas and will be romanticised so they will be back.
Some of my grandchildren have the names of Edwardian maids which for me were the names of ordinary middle aged and older women. I have learned to see the names differently now and they do have a pretty sound.
Eileen and Elaine, for example , have a nice sound if not seen in the context of who currently has those names.
I would have thought Fanny and Dick would be out for ever but the phrase "point Percy at the porcelain" doesn't seem to put everyone off, so you never know.

Roger

Names come around again and again. Fully expecting my kids or grandkids to start naming their babies Carol, Patricia, Derek and Nigel 😂