To think its an old fashioned name!

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Talking with a colleague lately about common names from the 80s and 90s... the usual., Sarah, Laura, Becky, Lydia, Lindsay, Louise, Emma etc..

We then got talking about more unusual names we went to school with "Hester.. Paula..Hermione (way before Harry Potter 😂).."

I just cannot imagine a baby or small child being called Paula! I can't even imagine a person my age (30s) being called Paula!

Any other names you just cannot imagine as a baby/small child?

Keith! Although I have recently met a baby Stanley and a baby Ernest and have to say that they both (rather adorably) fit their names perfectly!

Gary
Brian
Lauren
Cheryl
Cynthia

Baby Tracey, Baby Sharon, Baby Jennifer.

Wallace, and until recently George.
I can't imagine a baby Agnes either.

My DC goes to school with a Keith and a Paula (ages 8/9).

they also went to nursery with a Barbara.

Brenda. Can you imagine a baby Brenda?

they’ll all come back around though.

Derek or Colin

Im a 34 year old Paula

Edith, but then I met a very cute baby Edith today!

Clive
Derek
Alan
Bruce

Alan, Gary, Brian
Sheila, Brenda

I knew of a baby Colin, although baby Colin is probably a teenager by now. Still weird

cyril

Hi!
A good friend of mine is a mid-30s Paula too! Friday, is that you?

Any other names you just cannot imagine as a baby/small child?

Virtually all the names that have become very popular over the last 8 years or so.

I think this is as much to do with your own age as anything else. All the names that are being given to babies at the moment - Elsie, Ivy, Stanley, Reggie - are all names of elderly Grandparents or Great Aunts or Uncles of mine, but people of an age to be having babies, won't remember people with those names, and think they are lovely.
Then the next generations will come through - Alan, Keith, Derek, Deborah, Pamela, Angela, Pauline, etc etc will come round again.
Then the next, then the one after.
They sound 'old' and unimaginable on a baby when you picture old people that you know with those names, but don't sound old when that generation are no longer alove and the new parents don't remember people with those names.

There will come a point when all the Charlenes and Scotts are 'old people names' and then the Jaydens and Kaidens.

I'm called Paula and I have a brother called Keith😆but I'm 55!

Gary
Wayne
Bertha
Gladys
Arnold
Roger
Virginia
Pauline

I wonder if its regional - I know plenty of Paula's my age (mid 30's). I have come across babies with almost all the names in your first line - except Lyndsay. They are pretty classic names!

I recently looked after a baby 'Dave' which was surprising to me. Preferable to some of the modern names I come across though, like 'Boss'.

I know a Mavis and an Enid. Both under 10 and very much suit their names!

I was a baby Jennifer 39 years ago

Wgat?? A small child Paula? 😱

Clive
Kirk
Kurt
Donald
Leslie
Malcolm
Melvin
Melville
Cyril
Humphrey

Melanie
Lesley
Pamela
Barbara
Brenda
Meryl
Myra
Myrtle
Beryl
Joan

And Wendy

I know a baby Agnes- it’s actually grown on me! Makes me think of a suffragette or something, definitely due a comeback.

Also know of a baby Percy, which boggles my mind. A mid-tier pig shaped sweet, or the worst Weasley brother. Not for me.

I'm a teacher and many of the names mentioned in this thread are quite popular. I have a few Colins and Cynthias (parents are from other European countries so must be popular names there). Taught a Brian not long ago and currently have a Lauren and Jennifer in my class. Although not technically babies, they were babies not that long ago!