Names that aren't making a comeback

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Erasmus

came across this today, Charles Darwin's grandfather. Just thought, you aren't likely to see that one on a baby names thread.

reminds me of a Lord Peter Whimsy novel where the characters in the village are called Obediah, Jeremiah, Hepzibah and so on.

Hannah
Glenda
Malcolm
Cedric
Winifred
Margery
Cecil
Sandra
Marion

Cecil
Oswald
Martin

Alison
Prudence
Dion

Gaynor
Gay

I didn't think Paul would make a comeback, but it has.

Gail, Gillian, Rita, Maud, Sally, Jane, Donna, Paula, Sandra, Lyndsay, Sharon, Tracy, Hilda, Monica, Gertrude, Enid, Stella, Eileen, Fiona, Karen.

I love Ralph!

I knew a family with a daughter called Hermione. It was very elegant, unusual and people had to ask several times how to pronounce it. When I met them she was about 6. It was the year before harry Potter was published!

I agree all names come round in some way. I love re-using family names especially as middle names. My daughter is now the 4th generation with her middle name. I hope she passes it on. My son has his grandfather's name as a middle name, and it is one which would appear on here.

I remember meeting someone who had given up her child for adoption, (long story) she had called her baby a name similar to Brooklyn Maddison. The new parents changed it to something like Victoria Emma (I have obviously used similar names, not the actual names) She was really sad that her cool names had been swapped for these awful old fashioned names. It made me smile as I would be a Victoria Emma person1

Simon
Dwayne
Shane
Veronica
Cheryl

but Enid, Maud and Rita are definitely making a comeback!

Hannah is also still popular

Keith
Gary
Raymond
Mark

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Are they really? I am .
Maybe its a generation thing but as I was growing up these were the real old dears and the thought of calling a child these names just wouldn't have entered my mind. One of them is my mil name and she says this name was old when she was young.

i do know of a little Maud I think it sounds really dated and not in a good way

I know little Elspeth. It is an old lady name to me but actually on a little girl, it was quite cute.

It is interesting that most of the names quoted on here are names from the last 50 years. I was originally thinking of much older names that have vanished (like Isambard and Erasmus)

I haven't seen those making a comeback yet. I wonder how long?

Mind you I met a boy last weekend called St. Daniel. I checked several times (it was written down) still a bit bemused by that

and of course flower names were hopelessly victorian:

Lily, Rose, Violet, May, Daisy, and so on.

They were considered horrendously old fashioned for years and years.

now they are really popular

I know of a Humphrey that was a surprise when his mother announced it.

and i think I am right in thinking that
Eleanor,
Rosemund
Ethelred

are same era, but I haven't noticed Ethelred around recently!

I know several Laurens; still very popular in Yorkshire!

Victorian names are very popular though; lots of Mauds, Roses, Lilys, and I know of one Pearl and two Elsies

Boys, I also know a Malachy and a Seth.

I really wish I had been more adventurous with DD's name. And DS2 has a common Scottish name (I'm Scottish) that has become popular thanks to a certain fire engine. His is always being spelled and pronounced wrongly

victorian names are very popular now, but in the 50's and 60's they were beyond the pail

I know lots of Seths, but they are mostly American, it seems less popular here.

I'm a supply teacher and I've come across lots of these names recently, including Hannah, Eric, Rita, even a 7 year old Darren.

I was showing my dc's some old photos recently and they were laughing at the funny names - exotic names like Clare, Karen, Simon and Andy!

Janet...not many of them to the pound these days.

Yes Daisy, Lily, Rose etc seen as hopelessly old fashioned when I was growing up in the 70s. much like Sharon and Tracey etc are now. Will they be due for a comeback in another 30 years? when Jaden, Kyra and the like will be unpopular.

tbh though, these are all typically British names. Where I am, there are many many ethnic names that weren't known when I was growing up and these names are becoming more popular across the population

Someone earlier said there aren't many Trishas around now.

Patricia used to be shortened to Pat and then modernised to Trish and now it has vanished (for the time being)

Sasha is quite popular too, but it is an old name, originally short for Alexander