adults with 'faddy' names

[Doodlegoogle]

I'm a bit anxious that one or two names on our list have the potential to become popular for a few years before fading again. Of course that would be a risk with any name that isn't very classic and I'm not sure if it something that our child would come to regret or wouldn't worry about it. I have a very classic name myself and always wanted something more unusual!

I wondered if there are any adults out there who had a name that was very popular for a few years before disappearing again and how they now feel about it? Does it bother you ever or not matter?

The first examples that came to mind were names like Kylie or Jade. I don't mean to offend anyone with those names by the way!

I grew up as the only person around with my name- only one at school, college, etc- always having to say how it was pronounced.
Then when I was about 15 it became very popular and when I started as a secondary teacher there were a couple in each year group. Now there are less again, I am teaching 3 across 7 year groups, though as there are less now I do go to answer when one is shouted!
I was a bit perplexed and put out when it became popular as I was the only one, but at least I don't have to teach people how to say it or spell it anymore!

Lots of adults currently have names that were 'trendy' for a few years and then fell out of fashion again - e.g. Sharon, Tracy, Gavin, Wayne, Andy, Steve, Mike etc.

I have a fairly common 1970s name and really didn't like being one of several in my class. I always had to add an inital or other adjective to my name.

I have one of those names, v popular in the mid eighties then fell like a stone and now no one is called it.

It will date me v much to that time, I suppose like a Doreen or a Beverly type of name. I'd prefer now to have been called something timeless but boring like Kate.

Names that come from no where and get very popular very quickly will date I think, Ava and Alfie for example. It's hard to predict.

Ideally you find an underused name which never gets v popular, second best a 'safe' name like Kate which is a bit bland but not going to date, worst you go for unusual and it get's fashionable and then dates.

I don't think it would bother me. I have a name that peaked in popularity between the 70s-90s but was/is in regular use before and since.

I wouldn't mind if it had died out though because I would always know lots of people my own age with the name. I wouldn't care about children having my name or not. (in fact I jump every time I hear a child with my name being shouted at. I think I'd rather be a Kimberly or a Michelle and rest safe in the knowledge that we are nearly all over 20 and safe from discipline!)

70's child here, and I seem to have lots of friends with quite 70s names that you don't hear much anymore - Alison, Tracey, Suzanne, Lorraine, Julie, Fiona etc. I don't think it bothers any of them (mine is also quite 70s but a classic too although less popular now). I find it quite reassuring when I hear a 70s name, then I know that person is "one of us"