I know I'm old now....a friend of a friend is calling her baby Joanne!

[FortunesFave]

And it's not after a relative, she just likes it. Is this it for us over 40s? Are there going to be loads of little Lynns and Sharons running round soon?

What other names are we about to see!?

3 small children I know are Peter, Judith and Joshua. I like them all, actually, much prefer to the Charlie/Alfie/Ella resurgence.

Now the question is why every single female dog in this area is called Milly, Molly or Poppy.

'Almost every woman my generation from uk born late 70s early 80s I know has the middle name Louise, all the others were Marie.'

You forgot Ann! All those Claire Louises and Leigh Anns.

@Comedycook

Joanne is an awful name.

I know a ten year old Leanne

Thanks.

I pretty much have a clean sweep. My name, my DM's name, my DF's name, my DH name and both my DD's first and middle names have all been listed, as well as my MIL's name 🤣🤣

We might have to wait even longer for Audrey, Brenda and Doris to come back into fashion.

@2bazookas

We might have to wait even longer for Audrey, Brenda and Doris to come back into fashion.

The newest babies I know are Audrey and Ralph.

I have heard Ethel is getting a comeback. That's one I thought wouldn't happen.

Janet, Patricia, Susan, Sandra, Pamela, Meryl, Lyndon, Barry, Philip, Pete etc, are all names of my parents' friends.
My grandparents' generation are the Phylis, Beryl, Gordon, Melvyn, Clifford, Doris, Joan, Sidney (male), Clarence, etc.
My generation are the Shane, Simon, Mark, Paul, Matthew, Richard, Nicola, Louise, Claire, Deborah names.
They say it takes three generations for names to come back in fashion so I guess that's why there are lots of Ada, Enid, Edith, Stanley, Archie, Teddy, etc names so popular now.
In work we used to get a village magazine that had a hatches, matches and dispatches page. The births and deaths were impossible to tell apart, it was just the marriages you knew because they were the Rachels, Nicolas, Stevens and Marks. The deaths and births were things like Cleo, Clementine, Albert, Roly, etc.

Hilda making a comeback? It was late DM's name (which she didn't like) and would have been 100 this year.

@2bazookas

We might have to wait even longer for Audrey, Brenda and Doris to come back into fashion.

I think Audrey is already quite trendy.

@ArcheryAnnie

I have heard Ethel is getting a comeback. That's one I thought wouldn't happen.

Yes and and Mabel too. Both horrible names imo that would suit a scullery maid

Joanne is beautiful compared to Bertha!!

Keith 👴

A colleague named his son Ernest. And through work I've come across young children named Dorothy, Elsie, Sidney and Alfred. My late uncle was Alfred (born 1921) and changed it in the late 40s in his professional capacity (journalist) as it was considered old fashioned then!

The other trend from my 80s childhood was girls named feminine versions of their fathers' names.
Roberta
Stephanie
Frieda
Wilma

Well, it'll be our parents' generation's names:

Susanne/Suzanne
Jacquiline
Peter
Richard

Not sure if Barry or Derek will make a return though!

I'm a secondary teacher and also have teen/tween children, between us we know of school age:
Laura
Richard
John
Matthew
Steven
Michael
Nicola
Mark
Veronica
Leanne
Diana
Peter
Kevin
Julia
Linda
Alan
Jacqueline (wanted to be known as Jackie but parents objected )
Fiona
Ann
Victoria
Nicole
David
Gavin

I'd say that around half are from Eastern European, Filipino, Indian or Portuguese families. At first introduction some of the names sounded odd when used for a child but each and every one sounds like their name, iyswim, rather than a 50's throwback name.

I know two kids called Brian and Alan...both from EE backgrounds

@x2boys

Some names should never make a comeback imo, imagine giving birth to a beautiful baby boy and lovingly calling them Derek.

That made me laugh-my fils name was Derek-his brother was roger! They had a brother called Peter-all ‘retro’ names

There’s a boy in my DS nursery class called Derek.

I'll know I'm old when Natalie, Donna, Tanya and Yvette make the top names.
So far my teenage DCs' names have been mentioned a lot, though they were vanishingly unpopular in the Noughties. I like to feel I was decades ahead of the curve!
The last Carol I met was an Eastern European man, apparently there were more baby boy Carols than girl ones in 2017 .

I think Joanne's not too bad although I prefer Joanna. I work with children and know under 5s called Michael, David, Richard, Ralph, Nicole and Sarah so perhaps the wheel of in fashion names is turning again.

I'm 70s as well - Joanne, Louise, Jennifer, Melanie, Amanda, Sarah, Caroline, Helen, Kirsty, Michelle, Naomi, Natasha, Elizabeth, Catherine, Kerry, Sian, Anna, Emma, Rachel, Ruth, Stacey, Rebecca, Lynsey etc

Roy
Neil
Ian
Keith
Valerie
Heather

I don't think any of these have made much of a comeback yet?

@Laska2Meryls

I also went to school with an Elspeth and a Veronica , but I cant see those coming back..

I know children with both these names born within the last five years!