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 know of a few baby Margarets! They usually go by Maggie though.

Well that’s both mine and my husbands names on there! 😂😂

It's not a "frumpy" name. It's just not currently fashionable. It's quite a classic, especially in Scotland.

Bible names like Mathew, Mark, Luke and John will never die out. Nor Mary/Maria obviously.

I have never met anyone with the same name as my mother, of any age, her name is Glenda. (I have also never met anyone with the same name as my stepfather but won't put it on here as it's rather identifying when put alongside my mother's name!).

Senga, Sadie, Hilda, Barbara

It’s so ugly. They’d have to be a Milly to make it a bit more palatable. Other than Mildred Roper and Mildred Pearce the name just sucks (sorry for any Mildred’s out there 😁).

Mabel and Elsie aren’t ugly sounding.

No, Sadie is lovely. If I had a girl born today Sadie would be a contender.

So subjective. I think Mabel and Elsie are ugly names (nice girls, though!).

I remember noticing that Boris Johnson and Barack Obama had one thing in common: a parent called Stanley. But in Obama's case, it was his mother.

Margaret just isn’t a name for a child to me. A 70 or 80 year old yes but not a sweet baby.

You don’t get baby Maureens now do you?

No, that's probably due a revival as well! Maybe Mavis too.

I know several young Mabels and Elsies. The sort of names, where, if you're called that, you're probably either under 8 or over 80.

These girls are 15/16

Yes it is subjective, you’ve only got to see names suggested on baby naming threads to see how different people’s tastes are. I do think though that some names most would agree are simply not nice, like the previously mentioned Bertha. Thst's just horrible.

Eek!

I think fashions just come and go, but some names are more divisive than others. I've no idea why someone would call their child Wren, but it does crop up a lot on here.

I like Maggie, not Margaret.

Yes me too. I feel the same about Willow but I know lots of people love it, but not me. I knew someone a few year’s back whose dd was called Meadow, I can’t say I was keen.

Tina

Irish girls names like Maureen, Kathleen and Colleen seem to have died a death.

Lisa won’t die out.

Most names go in 4 generation cycles so very few will go extinct although many will disappear for 80 years or so.

To me Alfie, Eva, Eric, Olivia etc are ancient old fashioned names as they were Granny/Grandad names to me but the current generation having kids have made these popular again.

I suspect Karen will be a long time coming back round though.

I wasn't sure if I'd get flamed for this, but nearly all are children of immigrants from China. I think it is a search to capture something seen as traditional maybe? A bit like Afro Caribbean young men decades ago called Winston? I'm not sure though, maybe they just liked the names and meaning.

Yes, it's all Niamh and Aoife now, and I'm in Yorkshire.

When I had my first in the 70s lots of names that are popular now had virtually died out. I remember one woman on the maternity ward, her husband had gone and registered the baby as Alfred to be Alfie for short. She was devastated and crying, we all sympathised as it was such a horrible old fashioned name. GSs school is full of Alfies.

My mother was born just over a hundred years ago, she hated her old fashioned name, it was Agnes. My GD says she wishes her parents had called her Agnes as it is cool.

I think it is very hard to predict.

I know a Hector who must be 16 or 18 by now. I think it's rising in popularity.