'Old-fashioned' names that might NOT make a come-back?

[PrincessFiorimonde]

I was thinking about names that might have been popular about 100 years ago or more, and were then considered old-fashioned 30, 40 or even 50 years ago - but are now becoming more popular again. For example, Dorothy and Archie are names that are probably used more now than they were for babies born in the 60s or 70s.

So I wondered if there are names that have not made a come-back, and are not likely to?

For example, does anyone think these names are used much for babies born recently:
Eustace
Eunice
Jean (for a girl; not the French boys' name)
Joan (for a girl; not the Catalan boys' name)

I'm not trying to start a 'these are horrible names' thread. I'm just wondering which 'old-fashioned'-type names haven't really been revived. (Or perhaps I should say: haven't really been revived yet!)

stodg have just been at stay and play and there was a 14 month old stanley there with his dad. i also see him with his gran at another weekly session. i like the name!

I know 2 little girls called Minnie, both are called Hermione and use Minnie as a nickname. I also know an Edith and an Olive.

I absolutely love the name Seamus for a boy, when I mentioned this to my (83 year old, Irish) Grandad he told me it was much too old fashioned, a name for old men not little boys!

pinkyena - Fergus is getting quite common in Scotland, I know at least 2 nearby and more near

orville
winston
homer
lester
dudley

Lester could make a comeback simply off the back of Lester Freamon, the world's coolest miniature furniture-making natural po-lice.

I do know a 3 year old Brian - my dds cousin !

blackswan Amy? What's wrong with Amy?

hazeyjane "Fanny" lol! I agree, I don't see that one making a rebound.

What about

Hazel
Pauline
Christine
June
Sandra
Lorraine
Susan
Doreen
Patricia
Gail
Bridget
Elsie
Ruth
Joyce
Gillian

Has anyone said Deirdre?

PrincessFiorimonde

Completely off topic but I'm thrilled to see you here. How did you ever manage to escape from your life as a bead?

MollyMurphy maybe Fanny will come back in a few hundred years when its present meaning has gone out of use

I can't see Gertrude or Ethel, Ethelred or Herbert coming back.

My own Mumsnet name Maud is pretty old fashioned and I love it - but think it would be quite a hard name for a little girl so doubt it will come back in a big way as I can't think of any diminutives. To me it suggests a rather grand, confident middle aged or older lady (I'm middle aged btw but neither grand nor confident)

awwww nanatothree I agree with most of yours but Ruth is a superb name, in my opinion. I had it on my list but OH vetoed it as he sometimes pronounces 'th' as 'f', the buffoon. I do know two little Ruths though. I wouldn't put it in the same category as some of these other suggestions. Perhaps because it's Hebrew and the biblical names always seem timeless to me.

I think Ruth is coming back.

I know a Hazel, June, Gillian, two Paulinas (both Polish though) and several Bridgets and Noras, all under 8.

I can't imagine Winifred making a comeback. My grandmother and one of my great aunts were both christened Winifred (I'm talking 1890s/early 1900s). Neither used it herself, auntie was always Win or Bin, and grandmother chose Joan (her middle name which is also now a bit old fashioned) and preferred any number of the silly names we made up for her. She hated her official name and used to pronounce it "Whiny Fred" .

Has anyone said Maureen? Can't see that being shouted out in the park!

forgive me if already mentioned but i too often wonder where the finishing line is in the current competition for old people's names..where will it end??

trevor
royston
algernon
eugene
joyce
mildred
hilda
beryl
fanny

i quite liked queenie for dd but not even entertained by dh on that one

should also add

edna

i liked this for dd and compromised with dh on similar name

Aagh, have seen my own name twice - feel so untrendy

i know of a very young keith and two young children called geoffrey

i'm in my 20s and used to play with a girl a few doors away named pauline. also know of a doreen in her 20s.

Maud2011 Don't tell anyone, but Yolande was on my side all along. (I think her name even got mentioned up-thread.)

And young Herberts/Herbies, Gertrudes/Gerties and Winifreds have also been mentioned here...

Maud is definitely on the way back.

OK, I had a Great-Uncle Granville. Please no one tell me they know anyone who's been called that in recent years?

And (to pick up a mention from freesias earlier), does anyone know of any little BOYS called any of the following:

Beverley
Evelyn
Shirley
Tracey
Vivian

Can't imagine a baby Linda or Brian. I know of a few baby Johns which just seems incredibly boring!

A friend of mine was considering Maureen for a baby girl - thank god she had a boy!

I also know someone with a son called Baz......not even Barry, just Baz :( poor bugger

Not read whole thread but Agnes appears a lot at first ... that was DS2's "girl" name

Also some of you would be surprised - I know an 11yo Muriel, a 7yo Sybil, a 2yo Yvonne. I also know 2 Connies of primary age, several Stanleys, a couple of Arthurs under 11 and a small Ruth.

I work in a secondary school and there we have an Alan, a Roger and a number of Osamas.

No Adolf tho.

My DD (5) thinks Leslie is the pretiest name she has ever heard. Apologies to any Leslie's out there. But honestly.

I know toddlers called cora, agnes, patience, letticia and phylis.