Janet, Joyce, Barbara etc

[balletnotlacrosse]

Anyone like these names or think they'll be revived soon?

I can see some names of this era coming back soon, like Jean, Joan, Irene, Vera, Dorothy, Sylvia, Marian, Nora etc. They'll probably be the next wave of popular 'old-fashioned' names.

I think on the way back.

Not sure about Barbara or Beryl, but if they sounded pretty once they can again.

Joyce is ghastly

I like Joyce, Jean & Joan as middle names. Not keen on the others.

I was talking to a Barbara the other day and it struck me what an odd name it was.

They will come back- just a bit early at the moment - we are still on the earlier generation of 'old lady' names like Ruby, Elsie, Ivy, Pearl etc

Victoria Coren Mitchell calling her daughter Barbara is probably the start.

Marion, Susan, Angela, Joanne, Pauline, Linda, Clare, Sheila, June, Ann, Catherine, Eileen, Patricia, Maureen, Karen, Carol, Sally, Deborah, Joyce, Helen are all names popular in the 50s and 60s. They are your mothers's names so you don't like them.

In twenty years time when they are grandmother and great grandmother names they will all be back.

I reckon they'll be very popular in about 10 years time.

I think they're all bloody awful though. One of the names listed is my paternal grandmothers, I love her dearly but no, there will be no name honouring going on.

Yes, dinner lady names are definitely on their way back in. Gloria, Dorothy, Barbara... I love them!

I was at a midwife clinic on fri and there was a maybe 3-year-old Janet in the waiting room. Thought that was a nice change!

But these names aren't my cup of tea really. Agree they'll be what our kids call our grandkids.

I do like Gloria, I think it's quite pretty!

I like Gloria too. Joy is lovely. Joyce, Janet and Barbara are not pleasant names to me.

Oh my god Mama, the paint stripping look my Grandmother would give if she heard her name being described as a "dinner lady" name

How on earth can they all be "bloody awful"? The names that have been mentioned have nothing in common apart from having been popular around the same time.

Some of the names I like, some I dislike. Treat each name on its own merits and don't just dismiss them because they're names of people your parents know, or whatever.

I think names tend to come back in fashion after skipping 3 generations, so using great-grandma names rather than grandma names.

E.g. I'm 45 and My great Grandma's generation were things like Louisa, Lily, Alice etc. which I like, but my Grandma's generation were Elsie, Olive etc. which are becoming more fashionable but which I'm not keen on. They're probably more the great grandma name generation for younger parents.

My mum's generation is the Joyce, Barbara, Janet one so I predict they'll start to come back in a few years (with a few pioneers like VCM).

Maris

I was just referring to the ones in the op not the longer list.

Apologies to alis's granny!

Victoria Coren's and David Mitchell's litle girl is Barbara.

I do like Janet, and Jennifer too - both of those are worth reviving I reckon! Jane is by far my favourite name of that era, though - DD1's middle name is Jane.

Still on the old fashioned side for mainstream taste, though obviously some, albeit few, people are still using them for new babies.

I can see Gloria becoming popular.

I think Maggie gyllenhal- jakes sister, has a baby gloria.

"I was talking to a Barbara the other day and it struck me what an odd name it was."
Ouch.

I've always had an uncomfortable relationship with my name, to be honest. It's of the wrong generation (or I am...). I've tried changing it several times, but nothing has stuck.

One thing I do like about it though, it means female barbarian in Latin - which feels appropriate.

I live these names.

But then I really dislike the super girly, soft, frilly names so popular at the moment. Isabella type names leave me cold. Give me Jane or Marion any day.

*love, not live

I know one young Barbara. Her 9 yr old peers don't find the name odd at all.