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

Alison is making a comeback as a middle name, in Scotland at least. This is presumably because it is now a grandmothers' name.

It's just a short jump from common middle name to returning as a first name.

I always wondered why people shortened the lovely name Richard to Dick, which is vile.

Nicknames like that often come from long before the words being used for sexual organs. There's nothing intrinsically vile about the name Dick.

Vile is a strong word, @Slatterndisgrace .It was a regular diminutive in its time and I have known a few, and they were nice people.

I doubt there will be many baby Gayes moving forward.

Deborah is a classic name. It is a Biblical name.

Wayne

Karen
Kayden, Jayden, Hayden etc.

All turned into jokes by the internet (sorry if any Karen's or kaydens are reading this)

Agreed! I love the name, Richard!

Was it Viv Stanshall?

@Steakbreake , Haydn and Jadon will survive. They're established names. Jadon is from the Bible.

Beryl

It’s a lovely name I forgot it was Biblical.

This keeps being given as an example, but as we said, Elsie and Mabel are popular, so who knows.

Yes. No, it was someone completely different.

Terry, Kevin and Mark will come back round. Karen however. Nope.

In the late 60s there were 6 Margarets in my primary class. Scotland though. Princess Margaret was seen as quite glamorous.

Interestingly she was called Margot in her private life. She seems like a Margot 😁

Mavis is Scots for a song thrush. I always thought it was a very pretty name.

Vera, Enid, Ethel

Nigel Keith Tracey Darren Simon

I was at school with a Gaye in the 90’s. It was snigger territory even then.

I know a little Vera and two little Simons.

Simon is used a bit more in other countries so where you have international families or international cities like London these things stay alive more. Both little Simons I know have one or two French parents. ETA at least one chose it as they felt it worked in both English and French for a child of French heritage living in London.

I know 2 recent baby Margot's
Born in opposite ends of the UK

Margot & Margarita were both on my list for DD1 along with Ava (but that was too popular in my neck of the woods) & this was almost 20 yrs ago.
My then DH also suggested Kylie so that too was included along with a more classic name Rebekah
Then DH was really keen on Lee for a girl.
Yasmin was a front runner earlier in my pregnancy, however DD ended up with none of the aforementioned names.

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I was born in 1960. In my class were multiples of: Jane, Helen, Deborah.

We used a properly dead Anglo Saxon name. The mix of disgust for using a made up name (MN!) and oh cool from people who know how to use Google has been quite funny.