Are fifties names having a revival?

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In the last couple of months I've heard of a baby Jill, a baby Hilary and a baby Judy. I think of these as very fifties Enid Blytoney type names and am just wondering if the fashion for early twentieth century names like Edith, Iris and Ethel is now moving on to another stage?
I love the names Jill and Judy by the way.

My mum has a Chinese friend called Mei. I love it and love foreign names (like Rayana/Coralie/Sakura/Johan/Theo (pronounced the German way tay-oh), but have no connections to their countries of origin and feel my white working class family would think I was being very pretentious!

Sorry, thread hogging - back to the 50s!

I have a Katherine here too. Hope it doesn't get too popular again. She's the only one with a K in her school

I know a baby Enid...

Yay keep the Katherines special. She has no other folk with the same name in school and goes by Kathy right now (her choice). Its classic. It's Greek, means "pure".

My Rachel was named after her 91 year old great-Grannie who died 2 weeks before her birth. Her middle name is my grans name! Born 1912/1922.

When my dad was at school (born 1935) he says that there were 7 Brians in his class!( including him, sadly) When we were growing up my sister and I wanted him to change his name to Philip but he wouldn't hear of it. Also he was nearly called Keith.

I love this thread, it's made me want to reread all the Enid Blytons.

Exactly how horrified will I be at all the gender stereotype conditioning I innocently absorbed?

My 20mo twin girls have the middle names Jean and Gillian after mine & DP mums. Both of them born in 1949/1950 - definately something in the name cycle thing.

This is almost making me want twin girls again to call them Maggie and Patsy.
steps away from baby name threads as 4 dc is enough & dp would think i had lost the plot

Please do not resurrect Lesley or Leslie!

DS wanted (actually, 'wanted' isn't putting it strongly enough) to name DD1 Lesley. I had to break it to him gently that that was Not Happening.

My DCs are called Nicholas and Kathleen- are they 50s/60s enough to be fashionable?

Still debating what to call DC3. I'll have to start quizzing my mum about the names of her classmates.

I like Sylvie, Jeannie, Anna, Patricia, June, Valerie, Susan, Margaret, Cynthia, Florence, Rosemary, Rita, Lillian, Wendy, Penelope, Tulip, Gillian, Daphne, Darrell, Sally, Gwendoline, Mary, Alicia, Mavis, Mabel, Minnie, Maggie.

My aunt has an Emily, Claire, Katherine, and a Jane, (and Joseph and Benjamin) ranging in age from 8 to 23. I will tell her she is well hip. :o

Oh, god, please don't bring back JOAN! Have you people no taste? It's a horrible old bags' name and my mother-in-law's, and all of her old crone friends. Not glamorous.

My mum's middle name is Joan, she hates it. Says she's "never felt like a Joan". I suppose it was a slight deviation as there's a trend of Jane, Janet, Janette, Jean, in her family. Even Jean 'the chip shop lady' is marginally better than Joan. (Sorry Joans and Jeans on MN!) I like Rita, that was the name of my Sunday School teacher.

Joan Baez might make it every so slightly cool. Then what about Janis (as in Joplin) Not Janice.

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I am in the US and have met more than one baby Alison , several David's a Colin and a lot of Teagan/Harper/Maddison/Hunter type named kiddos.

I like Patricia and Blanche - I think Rosemary has been on the increase with the flower names over recent years - so many great names for girls - shame I have 3 boys never got to use any girls names - I suppose I could have gone for Shirley for one of the boys.
Godmother of one of my sons called her son - Mark - not many of those around these days as new babies
I thought my youngest sons name was more of a 50's name - Rex - thought he was going to be the only one locally and now it seems there has been another little one called it close by - hey ho

LittlePJS I like the name Rex. Regarding the other Rex, it's true I think communities become inspired by baby names and copy others (so consider it a compliment to your good taste ) In my area in the 90s there was a succession of female Tyler's born a few years apart.

There seem to be more attractive 50s revival names for girls than boys. Though one 50s boys name I really like is Scott. (You wouldn't think it was 'quintessentially 50s' but it was definitely around then.) Occasionally comes up these days.

Caroline
Clarissa
Catherine
Katherine
Carol
Lisa
Sheila
Vera
Wendy
Margaret
Ruth
Oonagh
Miriam
Denise
Deborah/Debora/Debra
Hilary
Doreen
Kimberley/Kim
Annis/Annie/Anne/Ann
Jennifer/Jenny
Georgina
Sandra
Rosalie
Rosalind
Rosemary
Karen
Louise/Louisa
Jane
Jean
Mary/Maria
Anthea
Julie/Juliet
Sarah/Sara
Sally
May
April
June
Janine
Elspeth
Linda
Stephanie
Deana
Harmony
Paula
Cheryl
Dawn
Tracy
Donna
Sharon
Diane/Diana
Michelle
Melody
Moira
Marion/Mariana
Jocelyn
Barbara
Helen/Helena
Judith
Minella
Priscilla
Philippa
Cordelia
Annaliece
Leonora
Drusilla
Rosetta
Demelza
Kerensa
Chantelle
Susan
Gillian

Names from the 50s (in Ireland)
Elaine
Lorraine
Aileen
Noreen
Brenda
Pamela
Rosemary
Emer
Grainne
Margaret/Mairead
Geraldine
Carmel

And Nuala and Fionnuala

I like Cindy, short for Cynthia or Lucinda, Cece short for Cecilia or Cecilly. Also like Joanie, Sandy, Lindy, Pamela, Marilyn, Marian. I like Catherine but shortened to Cassie, Kitty or Cady.

I love Dotty and Betsy, if I ever have girls that will be their names.