Names you think will not come back into 'fashion'.

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I am fascinated by the older style names that have recently come back into fashion.... Alfie, Stanley, Maisy etc. All gorgeous names. Not to mention George (almost the name of DC2).

We are thinking (just a little bit) about ttc again and I am day dreaming about names.

A DCousin recently named her little boy Phillip John on the idea that 'he will be the only one in his class'.

What nice names do you know that are unlikely to be around again any time soon?

I don't see anything wrong with some of these names.

I don't ever see Dick and Fanny coming back into fashion though.

A lot of the names children have today, will be seen as hopelessly naff and old fashioned in a generation or two.

Senga

My parents have done really well - all their children are listed here.

edna

Claire, Donna, Darren, Kevin.

I'm quite surprised by some names people are suggesting. I think names like Louise, Sarah, Fiona, Nicola, Rachel, will all definitely come back into fashion as they are nice names. I know quite a few girls called Rachel so not sure it has gone out of fashion.

I agree that Maude has made a bit od a revival. I think Peggy is due a comeback too.

I like Margaret, Robert, Mildred, Rachel, Gwendoline, Maud, George, Peregrine, Sylvia, Claire, Joan and even John.

Names I'm not sure are ripe for revival are Rodney (just a bit too l
like kidney), Sharon, Derek and Barbara, although I recently heard of a Maureen, June and a Barbara.

Of the current top 10 - I'm not keen on Mia or Imogen.

Derek.

I don't know why but i just can't imagine looking in a crib at a new born and someone saying, "this is Derek"

wanda that was exactly my grandmother's reaction apparently to when my parents named me - she described it as an old lady's name. Still not massively popular now but not that uncommon.

Interestingly my uncle is shocked and appalled at the revival of his middle name - he was taunted at school for it and never uses it now. His name? Wilfred :)

I had a great aunt Zilla - I've never meet another - but i would say it probably won't get revived (although I like it alot - dh and I only seem to produce boys though so can't use it)

Clare/Claire is really nice imo. So are Louise, Julie, Deborah, Linda. I am sure they will come in again one day.

I wonder if Tracey will also return? Of course, it is now considered a joke name to some extent and quite downmarket (sorry to any Tracies!). But when it began its popularity in 60s (or late 50s) it was considered very chic and classy - I think it came from the character played by Grace Kelly in 'High Society'. When you listen to the actual sound of it (drop any associations and imagine it was a brand new name), it is quite pretty. So I wonder if it could do a 'Ruby' sometime in the future?

But then Gladys was similarly the 'in' name in the early part of the 20th century, and yet that hasn't been revived, and is still thought of as 'old lady' unlike Florence, Ruby, Elsie etc. Wonder why?

I've never met any Joannes who weren't born in the 70s. Celebrated actress Joanne Froggat is just on the edge of that cohort being born in 1980. There were 5 Joannes in my year at Primary. Two of them were Joanne Marie. It was the name nof my cuddly pandas (I had a big one and a little one with a bell in its tummy).

I was born in the 60s and also went to school with several Joannes. Not one of my favourites, although I do like Joanna for some reason.

No sign of Jean or Jeanette coming back into fashion.

Edna
Keith
Derek
Doreen
Fanny
Blanche
Beryl
Norris

Reenie
Norman (poor old grandfather)
Maurice
Marilyn
Pauline
Angie

Hilda
Edna
Mavis
Barbara
Dolly
Peggy
Nora
Norma
Maud
Nelly
Fanny not so sure about that. It was a nn for Hannah and I do know a few of those.
Dick is the same. It's a nn for Richard which isn't over popular but there will always be a few about.

Nigel
Gary
Terry
Roy
Clive
Percy
Norman
Ernest

I have seen people on this very board talking about naming their daughters Hilda or Mavis.

Good names like Richard, Michael and Paul have fallen by the wayside. Jane is one I haven't heard a baby being called for years, and Elizabeth. Jonathan too. All decent names and not 'trendy' back then.

Maude
Ethel
Gladys
Mabel
Joan
Dorothy
Gillian
Julie
Sandra
Carol

Pretty sure Fanny was short for Frances, not Hannah. I don't think it will come back due to the, um, new meanings the word has acquired. Similarly Dick, although Richard may return, maybe with short form 'Rick'.

A lot of these are already back.

I would have named DD's Maude and Mildred,Winifred or Nora happily.

And Percy,Ernest,Herbert et al won't be rare much longer.

Norman. (It just doesn't pass the orgasm test does it? Yes yes yeeeees Norman. Yuk)

Sharon. It's sadly too stereotyped I think

Ken
Keith
Dave
Malcolm
Steve
Annette
Gaynor
Gail
Tracy
Julie
Linda

Sandra
Sharon

Darren
Barry

I'm surprised John has fallen from fashion. I always think Biblical names have stood the test of time this long-I can't imagine them ever not being popular! I love the name. Though it is my grandfather's