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'm 25 years older than anyone else I've ever met with my name. Proper Victorian lay-dee or Edwardian housemaid's name, but you hear it everywhere now.

Nancy and Florence are popular now because of D Cameron
my friend and I have one each - we were aghast to have anything in common with our Dear Leader

I love Joan too. Also Maud.

My eldest DS (5) is John. I love, love, love it still. I would have called DS2 John too if I could have!

I love the simplicity of it. In his school you cannot move for some of the other traditional names (William, Thomas etc) but as yet we have never met another John (who is a child). He is very proud of his name being different and so am I.

My mum is Valerie and we will use it as a middle name when our first DD is born in August. I cannot abide 'Val' so don't want it as a first name. First name we will go with Agatha, after my love of Poirot and Miss Marple. As I said on another thread, I love Jilly Cooper so I will be trying to go with Taggie as a nick name!

I also love Peter and Matthew and would love to see a return of these names.

Near, Shirley is lovely

The 60s and 70s names, but not abbreviated - Caroline, Jennifer, Melanie, Marianne, Suzanne, Louise, Nicola, Helen, Yvonne, Julie/Julia, Elaine, Jacqueline, Catherine, Christine, Fiona, Belinda, Sarah, Karen, Laura, Joanne, Stephanie, Patricia, David, Nicholas, Michael, Richard, Robert, Stephen, Jonathan, Andrew, Paul, Mark.

I wanted to call DD Caroline but the then DH objected

Thinking of my mum, aunts/my mum's friends so:

Maureen, Sybil, Sheila, Margaret, Eleanor, Susan.

Mermaidavenue - we may THINK Susan and Christine are awful now, but our children will probably think they are just great and retro!

I am old enough to remember William and Harry being born and named, and thinking how what old names they were given (my grandad ws William). Thirty years later and they are the norm and are lovely names, along with others like them.

If my children were to have their own children in say, 25 years time. (2039) The baby names that were popular in 1939 will be the old lady chic names from 100 years ago.

Someone mentioned early on in the thread that they would love to see a return of Matthew and Peter. I'm not sure Matthew has ever gone away. There are at least three I can think of in my dd's primary school year of 60 children

100 year old names round about when my children might have kids will be names from my parents' generation. So Christine, Marion, Jeanette, June, Martin, Peter, Christopher. That sort of era

I hope for a granddaughter Natalia
I also hope for Andrew, Ed, Valerie, or even Vlad

Susan, Christine, Anne, Melanie
Steve, Andrew, Paul, John

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