Do you know a baby Nigel?

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Or a baby Malcolm? Baby Barry? Baby Kevin?

Just thinking about baby names you don't see very often now. Lots of retro/traditional names coming round again...Albie, Eric, Walter, Henry etc but will we ever see a resurgence of this middling names?!!

Baby Bernard anyone???

Baby Ronald?

or Baby Terry?

DH agrees that Kevin is no name for a horse

Ian is top of our list if this one is another DS...

A friend was deciding between Melanie and Amelia and went for Amelia in the end. I thought Melanie would have been nicer and more unusual.

Bernard was our reserve name for DS. And there is a little Alan at his nursery. I did a double-take in the park the other day when I heard a mum calling her DD Debbie - that was all the rage when I were a girl in the 70s.

A friend of ours has recently had a baby Reginald. I know a 4 year old Keith and an 8yr old Geoffrey he has a older and younger brother whos names are just as 'retro'. Also know 3 yr old Stephanie and Melissa(twins).

Stephanie is lovely. melissa is not.

But if you can find a name you like that was more popular in another decade but not 100% tied to only that decade, then i think it's a good choice!

I met a 15month old bruce recently.

I know a baby Bruce too. Seemed odd at first, but he is most definitely a Bruce.

I have a baby Deborah. We just think it's a really pretty name. She's categorically not Debbie though (although I concede she'll probably end up being called Debbie by schoolfriends further along the line).

I know a baby David and a baby Martin :)

And when I was pg my bump was fondly known as Derek thank God we had a girl otherwise the name may have stuck!

I would have had a baby Colin, if it wadn't half dp's surname.

Derek and Iain were on the longlist.

I know a Jim and Alan, both are 2.

I don't think this thread has been reading the 'names of last five babies I know' one. There has been more than one Bernard and an Elaine.

I know a Kenneth who is about five or six. I can't take that name seriously.

Also, my friend's cat was called Malcolm. The cat was female, of course!

My friend's husband insisted they call their son Donald. She, however, refers only to him as Don and you can almost see the embarrassment seeping from her if anyone asks his name.
Seems a bit unfair to be growing up in deepest Essex with the name Donald.

I know a little Nigel. But a baby he isn't.

My Nephew called his baby sister Baby Dave from before she was born to when she was about 1!

Janet was on my list for DD, but DH's stepmother is Janette so we couldn't really use it. I considered Melissa too.