I like 'dated' names

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I love the name Karen with middle name Claire.

Should I just time travel back 40 years or am I safe to name

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S'ok Desk, you didn't offend me.

It's not Beverly

Ah, my middle name has been mentioned once. It's a dated name, but not a nice one.

Oh yes Holly your right. Should have noticed the spelling.

Mark is still a popular name in my area - I know quite a few of all ages. I always though it was one of the more common biblical names.

In my school class in the 70s there were 5 Pauls and 5 Clairs!

Usual

my name is the kylie of th e 60s/70s

Leslie/Lesley is one of those names that moved from male to female like Evelyn, Hillary, Lindsay and more recently, Courtney and Kerry/Ceri

ha ha my sis in law is carolyn same age as me ie 40 this year named after a charachter in peyton place? apparently

DH has a 'girls' name poor bugger was teased at school but it was a boys name first apparently

Tracey = male
Tracey = female

Another name that got feminised

Why do you think it would be unreasonable to have a preference for a particular kind of name?

Do you live in Iceland where the government keeps a list of acceptable names, and your preferred names are not on the list?

does iceland have a list of approved names really?

I think NZ has an approved name list, in Germany the name must reflect the gender.

I didn't know that I wonder how long the list is I guess it stops children being called after fruit or wine or whatever does france have a list ?

MN has an approved list.

Officials say the 'Personal Names Register', which contains over three thousand approved names, exists in order to protect children from embarrassment and ensure that names fit Icelandic grammar and pronunciation rules.

mentalfloss.com/article/25034/8-countries-fascinating-baby-naming-laws

This made me laugh!

New Zealand's Births, Deaths, and Marriages Registration Act of 1995 doesn't allow people to name their children anything that "might cause offence to a reasonable person; or [...] is unreasonably long; or without adequate justification, [...] is, includes, or resembles, an official title or rank." Officials at the registrar of births have successfully talked parents out of some more embarrassing names.

Rejected names: Stallion, Yeah Detroit, Fish and Chips, Twisty Poi, Keenan Got Lucy, Sex Fruit, Satan, and Adolf Hitler

Approved names: Benson and Hedges (for a set of twins), Midnight Chardonnay, Number 16 Bus Shelter, Violence

MN has an approved list.

that is much more important than ANY government list

1. Iceland

The Iceland Naming Committee, formed in 1991, is the group that decides whether a new given name will be acceptable. If parents want to name their child something that is not included on the National Register of Persons, they can apply for approval and pay a fee. A name has to pass a few tests to be approved. It must only contain letters in the Icelandic alphabet, and must fit grammatically with the language. Other considerations include whether it will embarrass the child in the future and how well aligned it is with Icelandic traditions. It must have a genitive ending or have been previously adopted. Also, names should be gender specific, and no one can have more than three personal names.

Read the full text here: mentalfloss.com/article/25034/8-countries-fascinating-baby-naming-laws#ixzz2QKyQ4lXA
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ach little satan sexfruit has a lovely ring to it

2 out of 3 of my DCs names are on the MN approved list.

My Grandkids names on the other hand would get me kicked off

I only like traditional names, very traditional and mainstream. anything that deviates from the norm makes me go unless it's a minor royal who comes out with something like Cassius.

If I heard someone screaming across the park "Apollo, come here!" I would definitely go possibly unless I was in Notting hill and it was Boris Johnson missus!

Anna, Sarah and Rebecca are still top 100 or thereabouts. Definitely not dated.

I currently or have recently taught children under the age of 11 called:
Rachel, Cathy, Claire, Nicola, Simon, Stephen, Scott, Gavin, Darren, Douglas, Clyde.

I don't think there are many names from the 60s-80s that really don't get used. Testing a couple on the database for 2011:
Susan: 33 born (rank 1043)
Patricia: 50 born (rank 749)
Beverly: 9 born (rank 2636) - ok, this one's unpopular!
Karen: 22 born (rank 1374)