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 have a 7 year old Margaret

What's in a name?
You tell.me?

Loaded with class, knowingness, meaning, expectation snd entitlement

Popular names appear and change every couple of years the some disappear without trace..

When we look back at some names can appear almost cringeworthy. How could you call a baby girl Bertha or s boy Jesse. But people did!!!

I.think.some of the old biblical and Saints boys names will survive E.g. David, John. Stephen. Peter, Paul etc

The least classless.

Frank Zappa called a couple of his kids Moon Unit and Dweezil.

Can snyone top thst?

Jemma. My own name which I truly hate 😂 Always hated it especially the "is it a G or a J?" Gets boring after a while 😂 I always go by "Jem" but then get "so is it Jemma, Jemima, Jeremy?" The Jeremy one has always baffled me.

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I have met several Barbaras under the age of 25, a couple of primary school age. Mark is very popular with many Christian families.

I used to know a Pauline at work, the only one ever. She’d be about 72 now. I remember Princess Stephanie of Monaco naming her baby that, which I thought was strange (maybe it’s better with a French accent).

Karen,Keith, Lisa, Susan, Dave

My husband is called Gary!! He’s 53 and hates the name.

It sounds like a cow in labour: the birther.

Or like a berth on a ship.

Karen has been ruined by the expression, Keith I agree is not that nice; but Susan, Lisa and David/Dave are all perfectly nice-sounding names and only stopped being used because they were popular for a time hence became passé. I think they will all come back.

Yes it’s time to give Margaret another go.

Mark / Marc/Marco is too classic in several counties to ever go out of fashion.

Most of those names are popular these days.

Our grandchildren are going to be called Barry, Lorraine, Melvyn, Janet, Colin, Jacquie, Tony, Sheila, Terry and Joyce

I agree that old lady names become baby names and it’s the parent generation/middle age person names that fall out of fashion for a while. When I was young Elsie was the drabbest, most out of date name but now there are loads. Ditto Alfie. Or Margot.

I think there are two factors:

1. it needs to have been old fashioned for long enough to generate nostalgia, not just be “what used to be fashionable.” Thus Alice and Elsie are back while Susan and Karen are still in the “not yet” box.
2. I think the names that don’t come back are the “ yoonique “ or played around with names. So the Jaydens etc. Classics or short forms of classics (like Betsy, Beth, Lisa, Liz from Elizabeth) will always have a classic “ ticket “ to come back with whereas a name like Jemma is just a bit too much of a riff on Emma.

Oswald, pteradactyl, ptolemy, nora, Betty....random I know but

It will be a cold day in hell when I call my kid Percy.

Bertha will always be a green factory machine to me, never met one in real life. I have seen a rise in ‘Bert’ type names these past few years, Albert, Herbert, which is surprising. No Norberts though.

Well thanks to a cruel meme Karen will not be used ever again!!
I know of people with the name who are now using another name !

All the ‘old names’ that I thought would die out seem to be making a come back… things like maggie, Alfred, William, Harold etc… So who knows, maybe our grand children’s generation will want to use our generations names for their children…
names I considered old when choosing for my DD, she considers cute!

I’m in Dublin and have neighbours called Bernard(Ben), Susan (sadly there used to be two Susan’s but one died a few years ago of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 52) and Margaret.

I think in the next 15 - 20 years the names Keith, Ian/Iain, Gary/Garry, Angela & Tracy will all be making a big comeback.

Especially Keith as most Keith's are usually around 70+ now.
To my ears a baby or young Keith in the 2040s sounds fresh & gives me the vibes of growing into a rugged, outdoorsy, perhaps sporty & a handsome man.

Edited to add: I'll take a screenshot of this post so I can add it to the MN's posts in 2045 which ask "Is Keith too popular as a boys name now?' 😂

Geraldine, I went to school with a few Geraldine’s and also worked with one but I don’t know any younger than mid 50s.

😀😀 Cute!

Is Percy short for Percival? Not that it’s any better.