Kevin

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Due a come-back, or not?

And as for Wayne....my pet hate of a name. How can you look at your newborn baby, that little bundle of soft, powder scented skin...the little eyes gently closed, the little pink fingernails....and decide that the perfect name for this tender little creature is 'Wayne"

i think there are a few names like that madhen ,brenda maureen, ian alan to name a few.

Oh gosh yes

Though it's amazing what a small change can do to a name. Like Eileen and Aileen

Kevins in France, Zakken, my pal told me a Kevin is what they call a wee guy who wears a shell suit and causes trouble at holiday camps on his moto.

This is true.

Baby Kevin. No. Just....no. On a par with Dwayne.....

DS' best friend is called Kevin. They're 3.5 yo. Kevin's parents hail from Colombia. He is awesome

And because of that, I really can't get funny over the name. I have an uncle Kevin. They're the only two I've ever met. I'm 36 40.

Now, Dean is a great name: "DEAN! Dinner time!"

Kevin feels very 1970/80's to me. All the Kevin's I've met have been that sort of age.

But, it does not make me think of the book / film that some pp's have mentioned. I've read the book (very memorable), seen the film, but I've come across far too many Kevin's for that book / film to be the first thing I think of when I hear "Kevin".

Not not not Robert, all -bert names are awful imo. Horrible sound.

Wow, Gavin Esler is HOT!

I have a two week old niece called Audrey. I was a little surprised at first but it has really grown on me.

Sorry, I didn't know anything about the book or film.
I was just thinking of random older names. Not old enough to be grandad names, maybe.

I know a 6 year old called Ian.
Still waiting to hear if there any any Colins out there under the age of 10. COLIN! COLIN!

Or Graham.

Stuart, Geoff, Mark, Phil.. All due a comeback :D

Mark?

Best one night stand of my life (and possibly f**k ever) was called Kevin (Irish). Go for it!

Went to a very large comp a long long time ago and about 75% of boys were Kevin, Dave or Gary. Girls were mostly Janet, Carol , Jacqueline or Elaine. How about a return of these classic girls' names instead of all the hyphenated chav type names met today?

I've always disliked Mark since a boy in my class when we were talking abouth the meaning of our names, at his turn said ' you know mark, like a bit if dirt'. How shit.

Forgot to mention we knew a Malcolm. He would be about 9 now?
Disobedient little s4!/:4...
Never did a single thing his mum or teacher asked.

I worked with a Kevin (Irish background though born in UK) and he was a good bloke. So I'm definitely not anti-Kevin.

I was trying to list all the boys from my class at school in the 90s the other day, and went 'Scott, Keith, Danny, Darryl, Barry, Jason, Kevin...' and DH stopped me and said 'You can REALLY tell you went to school in Essex from that list of names alone'....

I won't have a word against Alan, that was my lovely grandad's name. And Alan Turing.

And I'll sing the praises of Jane till the cows come home. Jane is a great name, also like Janet and Jenny too.

Here's some popular boys names I remember from being at school, which are the boy equivalents of Helen, Louise, Sarah, Rachel, Katie, Ruth, Lisa ect.

Jonathan
Timothy
Mark
Charlie
Paul
Robert
James
Gordon
Ian
Patrick
Graham
Benjamin/Ben
Sean
Jason
Scott
Craig
Carl
Nicholas/Nick
Aaron
Richard
Stuart/Stu
Thomas/Tom
John/Jon
Adam
Christopher/Chris
Stephen/Steve
Edward
Samuel/Sam
Jamie
Giles
David/Dave
Kevin/Kev
Gavin/Gav
Simon
Gareth/Gaz
Nigel

And from the list I prefer Samuel and Thomas, but they're still fairly common names

Just thought of a couple more, Alex, Andrew, Dean, Martin, Phil, Darren and Michael.

Yuck.

Yes, Kevin is a contemporary of Wayne, Jason, Darren, Troy. Hate all of them, they are the snotty boys I went to school with in the 1980s!

I know a baby called Mitchel. That was a name around in the seventies. Has it had a resurgence?