Looking forward to our parents' generation's names coming into fashion for kids

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As a young Gen Xer, excited to see in the coming years babies called Yvonne, Susan, Joan, Ian, Richard and Brian etc.

I assume it's going to happen in the great cycle of names?

Malcolm is a classic Scottish name. Veronica is very elegant I think.

I know a toddler Carol

Names roughly have a 100 year cycle so we’re still in the 20s names at the moment. Next will be names like Freda, Hilda, Gloria, Joan, Peggy, Edwin, Walter, Raymond etc. It will probably be a while until the mid-century names come back in.

Does anyone know a Sheila under 70?

Yes, but she is late 50s! I think it's a lovely name.
I also like Shona and Moira.

I know young children with following names that have been mentioned:

Olive
Jane
June
Rebecca
Nancy
Judy
Sally

Paul (named after his grandfather, who'd died when his dad was a teenager)
Robert (shortened to Robbie)
Greg

I secretly love the name Pamela, I'd have shortened it to Pammie, but wasn't brave enough.

Shame, that's a great name! I really like Paul and Robbie, good classic names without being too posh.
They'll stand out among the Teddies, Alfies and Albies!

My mum is a and is Karen

That's such a shame, it's such a nice name. I have 2 lovely friends called Karen.

I just noticed Larry has had been mentioned. My teenage DD has a Laurence in her class, that is shortened to Larry. It suits him, and the name has grown on me.

My DD works with small children. She says Hazel (lovely name) & Penelope are definitely on asking a comeback.

Love the origin of the name Wendy. https://interestingliterature.com/2020/12/wendy-girls-name-origin-meaning/

And she will definitely have a wendyhouse to play in.

My classmates were
barbara
susan
marion
Marilyn
pauline
janice
linda
gillian
sheilaI don’t here any of them these days

I was born in 1967 and my year was full of girls called Julie, Gillian, Heather, Alison and Tracey. There were two or three of each in every class. The boys were John, Michael, Paul, Stephen and David. My parents gave us names that were incredibly old fashioned - popular about 20 or 30 years before. I absolutely hate my name. It will probably never be back🤣 Everyone had an auntie or a granny with my name. There were two sisters who lived near us called Charmaine and April and I remember my dad commenting on their ridiculous names. I thought they were lovely. It’s strange though, how the names can suddenly shift. My brother is 4 years younger than me and the popular names in his year were very different.

I was born in the 70s. Catherine (in about 50 different spellings) and Nicola (also with different spellings) were basically the most common girls' names. I don't think I know any children called either of these names.

And boys were almost all called John/Jonathan or Thomas/Tom. And quite a few david's now I think about it. I think my class had 4 John/Jonathans and at least two Toms!

My dad's name is John as well though and quite a few of my friends' Dads were John too. So that one was clearly around for a while. Can't remember the last time I met anyone called John under the age of 50. I used to know LOADS when I worked in the City - but they were all my age or older!

The boys, late 70s in my class were:

Gregory
Jake
Jerome
Darren
Simon
Lee
Stephen
Matthew
Julian
Nigel

We are in an area of high Eastern European immigration and with that there’s lots of names I’d consider my parents age! Kevin, Alan, Adrian to name a few. Doesn’t seem to be the same with girls names though.

Born In the late 70s - most of my school friends were Emma, Rachel, Claire, Helen, Sarah. Boys were John, Phil, Scott, Daniel, Neil, Chris, James, Matthew. Hardly hear any of those now - Emma and James still classics which could be from any era but the others are very 1970s.
I love the evolution of names and how you can (usually) tell someone’s age by their name. I love it when I’m wrong though and meet a 20 year old Phil!

There's a similarly aged Roger near me.

My DH is a Geoffrey, b 1970's, I doubt it will ever make a comeback :-)

We have a nine month old with a lovely name that we picked because it is quite timeless and because we thought it wouldn't be too common. Turns out we were quite wrong, have met quite a few other baby girls with the same name at groups and elsewhere, still love it though and don't regret choosing it, it's not as common as Olivia for example, which surely has to peak soon since it seems to be the name of every other girl under twenty-five I meet! Still a good name but quite over-used at the moment.
I think it is probably just the area we live in and the kind of people who attend the groups we frequent, but most babies in our daughter's cohort, especially the girls, have beautiful but what I would consider old-fashioned names like Mabel, Elsie, Phoebe, Edith, Lily, Grace, etc, all names that belonged to very elderly family members of mine. I have also recently met more than one Nola, Hazel and Ivy, all of which I like too. I think these type of names are very in vogue right now, in certain circles. I rarely come across a baby with a name I don't think is lovely. Again, it may just be the people I encounter but I am not sure where all these terrible modern names people keep banging on about are as I never hear them! Boys names are a bit more mixed, lots of classic names like James, Patrick and Theo/Teddy, but also some more unusual ones than you tend to hear for the girls we know. Maybe that is because there seems to be less choice for boys names than for girls so people sometimes need to get a bit creative. However, none of the more unusual boys' names we've come across have been bad either, most of them sound great and have clearly been chosen with care and consideration.

You never know. We used to mock a boy who lived in our road for being called Henry as it seemed so posh. Now it's very common. I remember meeting a baby Stanley about 15 years ago and being almost shocked, but have met several since. I'm hoping for Doris to make a comeback, great name.

My DD has a class mate called Nigel

I really like Karen and Elaine, but I can't see Karen coming back any time soon.

Sat in the gp waiting room today and a doctor came out to call the next patient.
As she shouted for Angel I rolled my eyes and humphed inwardly.
At least our older names are actual names.

I follow this couple too on Insta. It’s basically morbid curiosity at this point