I'll eat my hat if that name comes back!

[AllieW]

There are some names which I've been quite surprised to see returning. For example, Edith was my granny's name. Much as I loved her, I was never keen on the name and can only presume the little Ediths now arriving are due to the Radio 1 DJ or something.

Are there any names which would surprise you if they were revived? For me, the list might include:

Girls

Doris
Ermyntrude
Gertrude

Boys

Arnold
Herbert
Roderick

I can see Marlene coming back actually, not sure about the others though :)

Can't imagine Enid making a comeback, though you never know...

Well, obviously Norman is the best name in the world, and therefore due a comeback

I know of a baby Enoch.

My mate Nige hates the name Nigel!

I don't think you can make predictions on names...my DDs love of her life is an archie...I mean archibald???...who knew

Jeffrey nn Jeff? Don't hear of many of those around.

ARE any of the current crop of Archies actually Archibalds? I thought that people had decided Archie was a standalone name now.

Allie you are probably right there..is it the same for Lilly and Lillian

Most of the names I remember from the 70s I can't imagine being popular now:

Darren
Clive
Phillip
Paul
Malcolm
Garth

Sharon
Tracey
Leslie
Tiffany
Kimberly
Karen

and my mum's name - Myra for obvious reasons

Adolf.

Surely no one is going to come along and say "oh, I know a couple of baby Adolfs"

AllieW - yes I know at least one Archie who is officially an Archibald.

has name on jingle's list

Names are cyclical - nearly every single name mentioned on this thread will eventually come back. 75 years from now people will be saying "I can't imagine Amber/Lexie/Scarlett/ ever coming back in fashion!"

There are only a few names I find so truly awful that I can't imagine a resurgence. Oral - just gross, and Bertha - hideous.

Mildred...not Milly that sounds cute..but Mildred? = old evil aunt who smells like cough medicine

Myra

I went out with a Roderick once.

My DD said yesterday that she thought 'Lesley' was a lovely name for a baby girl. [Hmm]

Lesley...hmmm unisex name

Don't you spell it differently if it's for a boy or a girl? Though don't ask me which is which...

Yvonne's got to be another (DH actually suggested this for a DC once...)

Alan.

Baby Alan just sounds...odd.

A baby Barbara also sounds odd..Evelyn, Marva..Daphne..all very hard names

thereisalight, yes. Lesley is the girl's version and Leslie the boy's. Although evidently nobody thought to tell Ms Ash's parents this fact...

Surely Bertha will never make a comeback?
But then I didn't think Hector would and I know someone who called their child Hector...

Isn't Hilda a dimunitive of Mathilda, therefore it most definatly is back- or doesn't that count?

For interest

The Baby Name Voyager

We'd surely have said 25-30 years ago that we couldn't imagine Maud(e), Alice, Mary, Harry, Alfie etc. coming back...

Our great-grandchildren's generation will be full of all the names which were the most common in school classrooms 30 years ago and which have now all but died out: John, Paul, Steve, Andrew, Wayne, Kevin, Lisa, Joanne, Sharon, Tracey, etc.

Roger - never met a nice Roger yet (and they all seem to be short).

I love Herbie, Arnie, Roddy though.

It Aural isnt it? Thats my BIL's name. I havent seen an Oral but nothing would suprise me.