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

I really love the name Rita, and if I ever have a girl this will be her name. Agree that 70's and 80's names will shortly be seeing a revival.

Has anyone suggested David - it was popular for decades but seems out of fashion now.

My 5 month old DD is Jennifer (I've seen a couple of others on MN but not in RL) but she would have been David if she had been a boy

I know a nine year old Jennifer.

Hello

This isn't an AIBU so we've moved it to Baby Names.

madamejosephine excellent name same as my 10 month dd

I'm mid 50s, class mates were Jane, Julie, Janet, Tina, Denise, Stephen, Richard, Nicky, Andrew & David.
I love Jennie/Jenny from that time too.

My favourite name is Martha, which is dated but lovely I think

No Martha has passed dated and become classic...like Rebecca or Elizabeth.

Dated means things that our parents rather than our Grannies are called.

Of course...if you're 20 then you're probably thinking that Denise and Sharon are Grannyish names rather than Martha, Mary and Elizabeth!

Marie Claire?!!

The downside of being called Clare is that even though it is a straightforward name, you always have to spell it... I prefer the English spelling Clare, but the fashion was for the French spelling Claire in the seventies.
We have a 35 yr old Jack in our family and when he was named everyone was horrified, most of the comments were along the lines of "you can't call him that, poor boy, its a dogs/old man's name!" ... How times change!!