How about a revival in baby boomer names?

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Every seems to want a unique name, so if you really want to stand out, why not choose a baby boomer name, popular in the 60s. It's time for a revival of some of these classics:

Wayne
Steve
Andy
Nigel
Peter
Paul
Kevin
Simon

Tracy/Tracey
Sharon nn Shaz of course
Sarah
Susan
Alison
Jane
Paula
Pauline

Any takers?

My DS is called Simon. He's 3 and I adore the name.

I also don't mind Peter, Jane, Sarah and Alison.

I don't think I would put Wayne, Kevin, Tracy, Pauline and Sharon in the same grouping.

Wayne, Pauline and Sharon were more popular in the 70s.... and that's exactly where they should stay!

I like Simon though and Steven/ Stephen.

I like Susan, Jill/Gillian, Jennifer and Jane, which are all very 'baby boomer'.

Also like the 'plain' boys names like John, Mark, Michael that were popular from 50s-70s.

I don't think Wayne is coming back any time soon, though

Simon, Andrew, Alison and Jane are all still perfectly fine.

I love Sharon - it is so pretty, especially if pronounced as Ariel Sharon surname,

Peter is lovely (ds's mn, sometimes wish I had used it as a first), I know a little Paul.

Susan and Jane are gorgeous, and would use both in a heartbeat if I had enough dc's to use up all the names I loved!

well, that was a pretty garbled first sentence! Sorry!

You forgot Carol, Julie, Janet and Jackie.

Approximately three quarters of female office workers 'of a certain age' have the above names.

I thought 'baby boomers' referred to people born 1945-1955 though, after all the post-war celebration shagging?

"You forgot Carol, Julie, Janet and Jackie."
I certainly did - does Janice count too?

according to this the babyboomers went up the mid 60s, but point taken. The Tracys/Waynes/Shazzas are probably a bit more late 60s early 70s, no?

What about David? Every other boy used to be called Dave.

There are two Sarahs and a Susan in my daughters year at school, so those names aren't dying out just yet!

Definitely David. And Neil?

There's two teeny Nathans at dd's school, that feels like a real 60s/70s name to me.

Sadly underused names of that generation - I would add Louise and Nicola/Nicolette.

Diane and Graham are classic baby boomer names also x

We have a Jonathan, which kind of fits this generation of names.

Colin and Brian are fantastic names

I wouldn't have said those girls names were baby boomer names. They were more 70's.

How about

Pamela
Barbara
Maureen
Jacqueline
Kathleen
Christine

And for the boys

Raymond
Philip
Trevor
Alan
Peter
John

I'm lobbying for DS2 to be called David, either as a first or second name. I think it's a beautiful-sounding, classic name, nonwithstanding that DH and I must have about 15 friends called David/Dave between us!

I also have a Jonathan :)

He's Jonny to his friends which when I first heard it made me go

Ah, yes, I well remember the invariable

"Do you have a rubber, Jonny ? "

Funny to think how dated that slang was even in the 1970s

Other names I remember from my 1960's classmates:

Trudy
Joanne
Joanna
Annabel
Leonora
Yvonne
Sheila
Lesley
Heather

Clive
Malcolm
Stephen
Graham
Nigel
Stephen

Oh - and Brian and Terry - how could I forget them??

I think the baby boomers may be best forgotten as a generation personally!!

My DC have David and Margaret in their names so we've done our bit for the boomers..

I like the name Pauline, it's lovely for a little girl.

Christine
Deborah
Angela
Diana
Annette
Veronica
Eileen
Belinda
Amanda
Janet

Richard
John
Francis
Mark
Peter
Philip
Donald
Martin
Eric
Lawrence

Denise and Barbara!