Names unlikely ever to come back into fashion

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Linda
Susan
Pauline
Mavis
Tracey
Tracy
Denise
Wendy
Elsie
Edith
Gladys
Joyce
Ethel
Stanley
Frank (tho I spose Francis is still out there)
Herbert
Harold
Horace
Geoffrey
Kevin
Barry

Barbara

Norah

Bertha

Gerald

REGINALD its my dads name,but he's been known as ken his whole life

but i think the one3s that wont be back for longest are the classic 80's names...

Edmund
Ethelbert
Ethelred
Hepzibah
Sheba
Caesar

Queenie is a nickname. At the end of the 19th c it would have been used for DD's called Victoria, these days for Elizabeths. I guess it'll be Kate in a few years?

I love Hepzibah! Ever since I read Carrie's War as a child I have thought it was a fabulous name.

Constance
Prudence
Chastity
Modesty
Patience
Honesty
Phyllis

I know a baby Sarah and think that Claire and Susan will be coming back soon too. Although it might be Suzanne or Susanna.

Keith.

I wanted to call my 13 week old DD Julie!

Jeremy
Carol
Glenda
Noel

Nigel. I really can't imagine that becoming popular again!

Sheila
Rodney

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Constance
Prudence
Chastity
Modesty
Patience
Honesty

I used to work in the dole (unemployment benefit) office and the travelling community all used to call their girls names like this, the boys wre all named after their fathers so you would get generations all coming in with the same name. One poor lad was called after his father and grandfather, his name was Bobby Robert Surname. I kid you not!

Dd's middle name is Denise. I really like it.

For the list I nominate:
Malcolm
Alan
Carl
Lesley
Kimberley
Charmaine

I was thinking of Denise for DD1's mn but chose another French name instead.

I'd add Geraldine and Thelma to the list.

My ds'1s middle name is Frank. I love it. Love Stanley too.

Myra
Barry?
Egbert?!

I have a Stanley!

I'm always amazed when I see posts mentioning Maud as a great name. If that can come back then absolutely anything can.

There was a little 1 year old girl in my shop last week and her name was Tracey. It was quite cute actually!

Lesley
Norman
Keith
Brian (in the UK)
Graham

Jean
Moira
Leslie
Tracey
Sharon

Anita
Annette
Karen
Karin
Patricia

Sally
Penelope
Andrew
Jocelyn
Janice

Mind you I never thought Mable would make a come back but I do know a very cute little Mable. So really anything can happen.

The names that were really popular when I was a child:-

Simon
Mark
Maureen
Carol/Caroline
Lisa
Beverley
Sandra
Colin
Keith

We've lost that sort of suburban middle-ground when it comes to naming our children.

I know an absolutely adorable Ada, (her sister is Edith too).

Lovely names!

I also know a Queenie (so named due to the character in Lark Rise to Candleford!)

Ethel - can't see that one coming back.

Ethel is back!