What will our grandchildren be called?

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If you have babies/small children now, what do you predict they'll be calling their children in 20-30 years time?

I'm thinking of the names people who are in their 70s now will come back round:
Susan
Joan
Jane
Peter
Ron
Roy
Derek?

Along with more unusual non-traditional names.

I think Lucille is! we have a Lucille, it goes back forever on records! :)

Only ever met one other aged 34, DD is 7.

in 1996 i bought my kids a little tykes car with horse box and a family of four dollies
I picked the names that i thought were the least fashionable possible ...

ONE has become UBER fashionable ....

Mum - Susan
Dad - Derek
Girl - Jackie
Baby - Eve

who'd have thought it!!!

My children are aged between 17 and 9,these are the names they have said they want to use:

Harry
Hermonie
Rebekah
Damian
Daniel
Victory
Castiel
Sebastian
Scarlett
Valerie
Erin

I like all of them apart from Damian

Susan is a perfectly lovely name thankyou very much

DD wants to call her baby Crystal.
She is only 10.

My FIL was called Eric and our DD1's middle name is Erica, which she hates.

Now Simon Cowell has called his DS Eric I am sure it will become popular again.

DS is 6 and his children will be Emmett and Lucy. That may change the next time he goes to the cinema.

I asked DS and he said Philip, Daniel, Emily and Ellen.

Rose is a huge name in Ireland at the minute too, and Ava. Lots of Ciaras too. Irish names are coming back for boys - Cian, Cillian, Sean, Rian, Oisin.

Maybe Salma, Fatiha, Sakina or some totally different names from our culture? Like Lucy, Jane, Jannet, Peter?

I'm trying to think of the names of my parent's friends (so people who have grandchildren now). So far I have:
Pauline, Barbara, Alison, Eileen, Frances, Hilda, Kathleen, Joan, Jean, Linda, Lorraine.
Roger, Roy, Geoffrey, Gerald, Deryck, Jeremy, David, Stephen, Andrew, Richard.

I'll have a look around my mum (Joan)'s care home next time I'm there and see if I can glean anything

Ooh I'm going to ask my students this tomorrow! They don't like Simon cowells choice of name (they're teenagers) much snorting about it.

for girls i think alot of the names ending in a may be replaced by plainer/simpler versions eg
louise
helen
anne
susan

also names out of use now eg
jane /janet
fiona
alison
linda
caroline
joanne
linda
sandra
sally
jackie

hyphenated names may be seen as trendy and cool and not as castigated as they are now

so
sara-jane
sally-anne

perhaps diana will be usable again as it will no longer be associated with the late princess .

for boys maybe a move away from old testament names and back to new testament names
eg
peter
mark
simon
paul
john

also name that seem really boring and middle aged now could be on trend eg
kevin
derek
brian
david
nigel
jeremy
martin

we may even see the occasional Elvis and kermit and bart as people forget the characters that would prevent our generation using them

maybe in years to come instead of striving for a unique name that makes a child stand out from the crowd parents will be looking for names that allow their offspring to be less conspicuous on the internet or it's future equivalent . Maybe many children will have less popular first name enabling with a very popular second name for internet use ?

i also wonder whether there will be many more cross cultural names such as polish,arabic and chinese names in popular usage .

More unisex names and surnames as first names - more popular in the US at moment:

Bailey, Harper, Drew, Blake, etc for girls

Ryder, Harrison, etc for boys

The above may become quite chavvy,so i think the middle classes will go for 1940's names:

Margot, Daphne, Joan (love it), Enid, Ursula, Audrey,

Reginald (I have heard of a baby Reggie!)
Sidney, Roger

I think Marjorie is a pretty name, but only if I think of the name itself and not my aunt's friend. Our children will never have known an old lady Marjorie, so I can see it coming back.

I like the 1940s names Squidgy mentioned above.

The girls ones.

Dd2 16 has said her pfb if a boy will be called
Gefforey (sp) the one from rainbow !!

I know a 17 year old and she is into all the 'classic' names - Marie, Marilyn, Elizabeth, Florence etc.,

She works with an Ernie (presumably Ernest?), Anita and others. However at school there are more of your common Hannahs and Sophies.

DP wants to call our first DS Claude.

I said no.

My MIL's name is Vera. She has hated it all her life and chooses to use her middle name for anything non-official. I shall inform her is it Russian chic.

I know a baby Teddy and a Reggie Ray.

I predict all men will be called Fred or John and all women will be called Kate and Susan.

(Not really I'm just hoping my kids names don't all do a ruby!)

Seriously I just think its going to be the names we have or our parents have now

There's a well known poster who called her dd Shirley (must be about 3 now). The more I think of that name the prettier it becomes.