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

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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!?

Daughter pal is Yasmin which is lovely. Hugo is popular here in Ireland. I like Grace

scotland.shinyapps.io/nrs-baby-names/

No Joanne’s born in Scotland last year!!
Went down a bit of a rabbithole on that website when picking a baby name recently.....

I almost was a Tahmala but got a bog standard boring name instead. Spelt a bit different but still boring as hell, and shows how old I am too 🤬

Paula here . I think mine will never reappear.

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Paula here . I think mine will never reappear.

I think it will. It's a lovely name

My sister and I were both born in the fifties. My dad played in a jazz band and really wanted us to have "jazz" names - Georgia for me, and Carolina for my sis. They would have been such cool names now! Instead Mum put her foot down, and chose a very boring name for me, and compromised with my sister's, calling her Carol! We always said to her "Dad was right !!"

We have quite a few Polish families were I live. There are baby Bryans, Peter, Andrew, Alan and Simon. They've used the UK spelling. There was a resurgence of old names around five years ago. So some Maggies (which took us by shock at first being in Liverpool), Elsie, Sylvie, Ada etc.

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Paula here . I think mine will never reappear.

Oh it absolutely will. Two syllable girls' names that end in A are always popular. At the moment it's Ava and Freya and Mia. In 30 years time Paula will be fresh again.

I know a baby Martin!

Martin is quite a nice name, due a come back I think.

Oh that 's awful. It's just so banal.

It’s not banal these days!

Oh and I have heard of a baby being named 'Jeffrey' !

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Oh and I have heard of a baby being named 'Jeffrey' !

I used to know loads of Geoffreys years ago, I prefer it with a G. 'Geof' s nice, sounds friendly.

'Gregory' is another one, Greg sounds good to me.

Trudy

Oh gosh I'd forgotten the name Trudy. As a child of the 60s/70s I think I knew three and always thought of it as such a Modern name!

It's from Gertrude, a nice name I think. Gwendoline - Gwen - is another good G name.

Claire/Claire, Helen and Sarah are due for a comeback- About 15 in my year in total! Whereas my daughter's year was all Evie Ella Elsie Eve Emily etc (imagine me doing skippety skippety voice🙂). Shortly after (younger daughter) came the Maisie Millie Mollie Maya Mia and Mia (pronounced differently from Mia iyswim - one like Me and one like My 🙄).
Boys, my era was Wayne, Christopher, Steven, David, Richard, Anthony. My kids' era is all Zac, Jonah, Joshua, Nathan but quite a few Alex and Thomas too.
Thinking of the older generation, not heard of many young Brian's, or Marjorie or Hilary's or Rogers 😁

Maxine - now there’s a name you don’t hear very often these days

Claire/Claire, Helen and Sarah are due for a comeback

Lovely. I didn't know they were out of vogue actually. They are classic names, timeless, as is Jane.

My 4YO was in a daycare class in the US with a Bryan, Martin, John, Richard, Claire, Allison, Vivian, Fiona and Jennifer. It was really strange as they’re absolutely not what you’d typically think of American kids names of today!

Clive
Cliff
Stephen
Amanda
Donna
Nicola

my daughter's year was all Evie Ella Elsie Eve Emily

Just saying, but some people were Emilys even when there were lots of Claires and Helens

Sarah might be a classic, but even classics go in and out of fashion. Until about the mid seventies it was a name which had gone completely out of fashion, and Sarah's then were almost certainly 80 plus. Then it seemed that every other little newborn girl was called Sarah for the next five years or so and it got overworked and fell out of fashion again.

Much like Elsie now - I know two, one of 85 and one who is about 15 months old.

Sarah is not a name which would embarrass a child or cause mick taking at school, even if some find it boring and ordinary. I didn't notice it not being in fashion until very recently but many fashionable names are the ones that are likely to cause regret later on.