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?

Names go in and out l of fashion, I had a friend at high school who had a very old fashioned name, Grace,now you can't move for Grace,s

Lorraine

there’s a little Phil in my dcs school.

Graham or Darren

Sharon
tracy
sandra
Elaine
Janet
Pauline
Susan

None of the 1960s or 1970s names are used very much currently. Not sure if they will come back- most sound very dated now and if their time- Karen, Nicola, Debbie, Susie, Dawn, Gillian, Julie, Elaine, Lorraine, Beverley, Deanna, Nadine, Tamsin, Samantha, Alison, Jocelyn, Christine, Janet.

When i Was pregnant with my first my nana d said "I'll tell you a lovely name...Wayne" 😱😂 he was not called Wayne 😂

DD1 is Hester. Fabulous name!

We must have been at the same school 😁

Baby Lesley or Leslie

Hester is very unusual! Nice to hear this! ❤️

Gladys
Doreen
Janet
Sylvia

Bernard
Carl
Walter
Norman

Edith Agnes and Agatha are three of the ugliest names I’ve ever heard. I know a few Lauren Laura and Michael’s age 10-18

Ahh see i think you're wrong saying people using these names don't remember the members of the family having those names. My eldest has the same name as my grandmother and I love it. My youngest would have been named after my other grandmother but husband didn't agree. I think people do look back on their own families names and use them.

Pretty much everyone I know when naming children have at least made a nod towards family names eve just as the middle name.

My primary school had:

Gillian
Claire
Katherine
Louise
Jennifer
Kerry
Joanna
Elaine
Emma
Wendy
Samantha
Kelly
Pamela
Jinnah
Trudy

Paul
Richard
Ian
Christopher
David
Finn
Neil
Mark
Philip

I can't imagine any of these on a little baby except for Finn, Katherine and Jennifer and even that's only because I've known babies called those names recently.

There was a baby in DD's baby group called Ned, and it really didn't suit him.

I can’t imagine a baby Shirley or Denise. Or a baby Colin.

I can imagine a baby Hazel though - it’s a lovely name. I also quite like Nigel, but I don’t know why!

A few names from my family
redvers
gwendoline
maud
percy
walter
frederick

i cannot imagine any of them being used for a babies name except Fred

Surely some of those people born in the 80s and 90s must be amongst those parents who give their children the same name as them - so somewhere, Keith & Linda must have Keith Jr and baby Linda?!

It won't be long before Laura, Alison, Gary and Jason become grandparents and that is when their names will start to be used again - many parents seem to name their DC after much loved GPs.

Redvers? Was that a typo or the actual name?

I've never ever heard of anybody with that name!

Darren. There were loads at my school. Can't think of one I've taught. I don't think it's a bad name, really.

I had a baby Shirley 10 years ago 😀

There was a Hester in my class back in about 1974, only time I’ve ever come across the name I think.

It's so odd, really, when you think that these are all just letters and sounds. What makes one dated and another often similar one so current?

Why is Brian invariably an old man and Ryan a man in his teens/20s, yet Briony could quite plausibly be a female of just about any age?!

No, it was my uncles middle name

The name Redvers is boy's name meaning "from Reviers; place of rivers". A popular name during the Victorian period, given in honor of Sir Redvers Buller, a British Army general awarded the Victoria Cross for his services during the Boer War.

Ian