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.

As a child of the late 60s my classmates were called names like Susan, Joanne, Claire, Christine, Janine, & Lynn. I've taught for 25 years and in that time I've taught one Claire-and none of the others! My DS was looking at old pics with me and saying how we all had "ordinary" names "back then". Somehow they do seem "ordinary"? He thinks his Gt grandmothers names-Cora/Agnes/ruby/Lilian are "well cool"-and by comparison they do seem more glamorous yet when I was his age it would almost have been considered child abuse to have used one!

Jacqueline/Jaclyn - I have yet to meet one under 30.
Hilda
Susan
Pamela
Patty
Elaine
Joan
Judith

Kevin
Kenneth
Gaylord
Allan
John
Roy
Zedikiah - though I love that name.

I like some of the 70s and 80s names! Simon, Scott, Douglas and Paul were the names we were choosing from for DS last year (and we went with one of them).

Karen, Louise, Hannah, Claire and Kathleen were the names we chose from for DD.

Our DCs clearly have names that are just ahead of their time at the moment

Pamela

Josiah

Cuthbert

Gregory

Terence

Leopard

Sonia

Michelle

Reginald

Wilbur

Wilf

Rodney

These are all very common names now here. In the under 5s alone I know:
Agatha
Georgina
Rufous
Micheal
Leopard
Dorothea
Wilfred
Edgar
Rita
Hipolyte
Philip

Oh and if we had a girl Nora and Margot were too name choices which I suppose are slightly old fashioned

I don't know. I figure that even the most Olde Worlde names will become popular in certain enclaves of pretension Islington. I met a Bede at Baby Bounce three years ago. In the last year or so I've met a couple more newborn Bedes. And a Boudika (sic).

But for a name that DEFINITELY won't be making a comeback, I give you...Cnut.

Everard

Gaylord

There is a theory that there is an 80-100 yr gap for a comeback which is why you get Winifred, Ruby, Elsie, Alfie etc now.
In about another 20 years it is quite likely that names you rule out like Pamela, Linda, Nigel, Colin etc will be back.
If people can choose Ivy then anything can reappear!
Probably the only ones to rule out are those with connotations like Adolf or Jezabel.

It's funny how Gladys never made a comeback along with all the other OAP names that are so popular now, like May, Elsie, Florence, Wilfred, Arthur etc. Not that I like it, but then I don't like most of those either.

It was so popular once - think it was the Lilly, Ella or Isabella of it's day!

Pamela
Patricia
Tracey
Sharon
Louise
Janet

Wayne
Derrick
Paul
Grenville

My nan was a Gladys.
I have 2 Dd's but haven't used her name for either of them.

Norbert!!! Curly, thats genius. Please someone name their baby Norbert.

Egbert, Beauregard, Hortense, Fanny, Quintin, David, Gavin, Lindsay

Well no, Dilly I don't blame you, and probably your nan wouldn't have expected it either. But apparently when Gladys first become popular people thought it was cool and exotic!

David is still nice, IMO, and doesn't really fit with the others on your list, burga. I think it's a bit more 'classic'.

I love David, Nadia. If I had a dd it would have been top choice along with Tony. But I've not met a baby David.

David is a classic name.

Baby Dave. That's what I'd like to see.

I know 4 Daisies

Trevor
Keith
Karen
Kevin
Sharon
Tracey
Brenda

I had a work colleague with the first name Xerxes! He went by his second name!

Burga, I also think that David and Quentin are great classics (we have one, actually ). Don't like the spelling of Quintin though.

Tracey, Sharon, Carol are pretty uncool names. I think the traditional flowery names like Daisy and Violet would always make a comeback but can't see it for them names, they don't sound nice either, kind of like the female equals of Keith, Malcolm and Alan.

Hairylegs. I'm a Jacqueline and have only just turned 30 this year!