What do you think are the Sharon/Tracy/Michelle names of this generation???

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Out of interest what do you think are the Sharon/Tracy/Michelles names of this generation. No offence to anyone with these names but when I was in school there was at least 3 of each in my class. It seems they really were only of my generation(I'm 30) & never made a revival. In particular Michelle is lovely.
I'm thinking
-Lily
-Daisy
-Poppy will not get carried on as classic names although fab in their own right are they too trendy???

Also for boys what would you suggest. I cant really think of boys names from my school years as I went to an all girls school-possibly Shane was v common but now don't hear very often
I'm thinking
-Finn
-Oscar
may not stand the test of time???

At school in the 80s with lots of girls called Catherine and boys called Richard.

I think Michelle and Claire became popular because of songs - would a song have the same effect these days when the music scene is much more diverse?

I have a name that was very unusual in the 80s but is often named as "chavvy" these days. If you call a child an unusual name today, there is a good chance it will become a common name in ten years time. It is why the classics endure.

I called my child a name that is about 300 or so on popular lists, but suspect it will grow in popularity.

Come on then otherside out with it!!

I have one of the names in the OP. I'm from a wc background,but would say I'm pretty much a Guardian reading left wing middle class liberal now. I have always loathed my name, not only does it not suit me,but it makes it very easy to pin point my age. In one class at primary school,out of eleven girls, five of us had the same name. I still give my mum stick for letting my (late) father pick the girls names, and when I was picking my sons name I was careful he didn't befall the same fate!

I would think it would be names named after alcoholic drinks, made up names and names that are half one name and half another.

Names come and go, we had a Kevin and an Alan in our class at school. There were two Sharons and a Tracey.

CeliaDeBohun, is it necessary to bark "You're being ridiculously oversensitive anyway" at someone on an anonymous internet forum?

Perhaps you should chill out a little

And no, I don't have a son called Findlay! Lovely name though!

The name is the only thing that a parent has some control over when they have a child. They can't make it look like them or be good at the same things and half the time you can't even make them behave properly so it is that little bit of you (your taste) that you are guaranteed they will have. I think that is why it is such a touchy subject. it isn't nice to hear someone say nasty things about the name you have thought about for 9 months.

But not popular does don't automatically mean good taste, there are some names I have only heard of once or twice which I dislike and then there are some really common ones that I think are lovely. And other people would think the opposite.

names generally become common because people like them so if your child has one of these then it is because lots more people thought it was a nice name :)

And wouldn't the world be a boring place is we ALL liked the same thing.

As for the negative connotation, that's impossible to predict because that was basically based upon a very popular television program. So guess if they make a program about Chavy type people called Lilly and Poppy in the future it may have the same effect on those names (just an example by the way don't think these are Chavy!)

One piece of advice tho... Don't use your favourite name for your cat, you might have a baby 4 years later and wish you hadn't. :( learned this the hard way.

I have a typically 80s name and I really think it is very me and sometimes I think about changing it. My DD has a name mentioned on here and we still love it but she wont answe to it as she changes it hourly to things like Annie, Jane, Belle, etc it just depends on what film or book character pops into her head.

If I could change my name, I would call myself Megan.

I really DONT think it is very me!

Sorry about all the typos, the letters on my phone are tricky to tap accurately.

i was born in 68 my names michelle :)

Yes, a lot of posters have ignored the inclusion of Michelle in the OP. They have got hung up on Sharon and Tracy because these did get paired up in the popular consciousness.

It didn't start with 'Birds of a Feather' though - it was already a bit of a cliche by then. As I said way back, I think it was the writer Keith Waterhouse who started the whole Sharon & Tracy thing. And he merely picked out two popular names of the era. It could just as easily been Michelle and Claire, or Karen and Lisa for example. And they are all nice names.

That's a good point about Michelle. People have conveniently left it out because whilst it undoubtedly was very common (ie. overused) they don't see it as common (ie. every working class.) I was born in 66 and the names that stick in my head as being absolutely ubiquitous from that era are Sharon,Tracey, Debbie, Karen, Jackie, Julie and Lisa.

They were the hardcore group of names that we heard over and over again, and there was at least one in every class. They were not necessarily very working class names, just very popular ones.

Although my more middle class schoolmates tended to be called things like Ruth, Stephanie, Elizabeth, Bridget, Jane, Catherine.

Sharon and Michelle did, I think, get paired up in the popular consciousness.

Eastenders.

TheSecondComing- no offence intended- like I said, my 2 chn's names are in the op, which has humoured me.
Maybe it's the Frankies I know...