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?

Excuse me!! Myself and my sister have two of those names and I can bet you can guess which ones. Yes, sixties babies and yes mum probably on drugs lol.

Aw, I feel bad now. Sorry, hope I didn’t offend you!

I absolutely hate the name Hazel, funny how one person can love and one person can hate the same name.

I went to school with two Geoffreys in the 80s, but I've never met a Geoff(rey) or Jeff(rey) now under about 40. To be honest, even then, it raised a few eyebrows - one of them rather predictably was known as 'Bungle' (I suppose Zippy was just too wacky and George too ordinary for a 'funny' nickname!).

I really like the name Jennifer and would consider it if it wasn't a close family members name.
Mine would be
Shirley
Rene
Gladys
Doris
Beryl
Bernard
Graham
Donald
Oswald
Humphrey
But I bet there are babies somewhere with those names!

Yeah, it’s odd isn’t it. I really like the name Sandra but I appear to be in a minority of one! I think it’s because of Sandra Bullock.

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.

Ooh, thanks - interesting.

Derek!

Nobody has mentioned

Margaret or
Patricia

I know of a baby Clive . My DD had a Percy in her class at primary school. My mums friend has grandaughters called Lesley and Freda!

Allan. Julie. Derek.

I saw Alan Bennett doing a monologue on names that come around again and those that don't. His observation was that some names (I seem to particularly remember Jacob and Samuel) had been given to working-class lads when he was a child but were more likely to be middle-class today ... and that Edna and Gertrude were unlikely to be resurrected.
If anyone knows the programme that I'm referring to, I'd be grateful for a link.

Recently met a 7 year old Debbie, I was surprised.

I have Challenge on in the background and a vintage episode of Bullseye is on (don't judge me). In fact, unless I'm phenomenally mistaken, one of the contestants is Daphne from Eggheads!

One of the prizes on Bully's Prize Board is a big cuddly Rupert the Bear. Weird to think that you're nowadays far more likely to meet a baby called Bear than you are a baby called Rupert!

Also, you don't see many baby Daphnes now either, come to think about it.

Spoiler alert: they took the gamble and lost, so they didn't get the shiny red Vauxhall Nova

Maud is incredibly popular round here at the moment, I couldn't have imagined it ever coming back even 10 years ago.

15 years ago I used to babysit for an 18mo Humphrey. It suited him, he had a very serious little face! Apparently he's now a very cool teenager known to all as Humph.

Isn't David Mitchell's little daughter called Barbara? I think its a lovely name

Clive ,Colin ,Steven,Keith
Jacqueline,Susan ,Tina ,Beverley

Baby Denise
baby grant
baby Barry
baby Horace
baby Wendy
baby gemma
baby karen

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll luckily I have named all mine by now, but I do think Rupert is a nice name. And Jennifer, don't think that one is a goner yet. I do think Sharon and Derek are going to have to wait for a revival though.

We go to baby class with a Roger (he's less than 6 months old)

Ian - who'd name a baby Ian?

See also Susan.

Sadly, I imagine Karen will now be decimated for generations to come. Shame because it's a very pretty name.

Baby Eric

My boys are in a primary school with a Julia, Juliet, Kevin, Carl, Hazel, Antony, Beatrice, Lilian, Nina and Melody. Non of these names I would have imagined for a child but they all suit them.

My father would never discuss names for a baby until the baby was born and he saw it. I think this is very sensible (I was going to write eminently sensible, but most people here would not understand that).
In our family we have James, Hilary, Grace, Patricia, Constance, Vaughn, Harry, Frances, Mary, Helen, Joanna, Catherine, Fiona, Richard, Michael, Simon, Nicholas, David, Stephen, Jackson, Thomas, Caroline, Oliver, Toby, Sebastian, Evelyn, Ann, Ian, Nicholas, John, Sylvia, Susan, Elizabeth, Jean, Hugh, Mary, Christopher, Jack, John.
Nothing contentious.
I am also very good friends with Rupert, Henrietta, Charles, Neil, Giles, Miles, Fidelius, Andrew, Jane, Nigel, Rainer, Martin, Ursula, Philip, Kristine, Maritta, Renate, Götz, Dorotee, Margret.
Make of that what you will.