Can I have your best 80's baby girl names - eg. Fiona, Amanda, Caroline types

[SecretTryer]

Not pregnant but I'd like to be ready as my pregnancy brain chooses very differently!

Honestly, I don't like a lot of the current baby girl names. Nothing wrong with them but I'm hearing so much repetition and the same names repeated a lot in recent baby announcements, I'd like to widen the net from which to pick if I have a little girl. I'd also like your opinions on a few and any more you can think of.

Amanda - I do like this and the way it sounds
Fiona - not crazy
Caroline - don't like at all
Lucy - like, but seems to already have a slight resurgence
Jessica - no
Vanessa - I like this too
Jenny - no
Sandra
Lisa
Janice

Jennifer
Kylie
Katy
Louise
Heather

80s child here so a random selection from my peer group:

Joanne
Samantha
Diane
Victoria
Patricia
Michelle
Catherine
Rachel
Jane
Julie
Kimberley
Beverley
Zoe
Helen
Rebecca
Kelly
Stephanie
Karen
Jacqueline
Deborah
Angela
Claire
Donna
Sharon
Tracy
Cheryl

HTH

Girls I was at primary school with in the 80s:
Emma
Tracey
Sarah
Hannah
Michelle
Katie
Jenna
Gemma
Felicity
Alicia
Victoria
Lisa
Lindsey
Samantha
Kelly
Anna
Anita
Kirsty
Laura
Claire
Lucy
Melissa
Nicola
Holly
Angela
Maria
Jackie

Meredith
Ashley
Britney
Julie
Nicole
Natalie
Melissa
Melinda
Melanie
Melody
Andrea
Autumn

Tracy
Jane
Fiona
Rachel
Lorna
Vanessa
Sarah
Kelly
Melissa
Lisa
Nicola
Hannah
Jessica
Jenny
Anne
Emma
Stacy
Tiffany

Ah my school era
The most popular names amongst school friends in the 80s were:
Claire
Katy
Susan
Becky (Rebecca)
Rachel
Emma
Joanna / Joanne
Sarah
Tania / Tanya

Adele
Michelle
Shelley
Catherine
Julie
Clare
Deborah
Nicola
Lisa
Alison
Natalie
Jacqueline
Rebecca
Victoria/Vicky
Louise
Rachel
And of course;
Tracy and Sharon

There is a 6-y-o Claire in my DC's school and I always think that it's such a lovely, brilliant name.

Oh and Laura and Nicola too!

Laura
Claire
Sarah
Lisa
Nicola
Katie / Catherine
Hannah
Charlotte
Gemma
Hayley
Natalie
Louise
Jennifer
Susanna
Victoria
Rebecca
Rachel
Kelly

Girls names from my 80s childhood:

Elaine
Nicola
Laura
Claire
Lianne
Gemma
Caroline
Tracy
Pippa
Faye
Jodie
Lucy
Sarah
Diane
Debbie
Naomi
Rachael
Rebecca
Kerry
Emma
Anne
Cara
Yvonne
Elspeth
Judith
Vicky
Lynn
Carol
Dawn
Lyndsay
Jenna

Some good ones there, thanks!
I like
Susan
Melissa
Vanessa
Ruth
Melody
Jenna
Gemma
Beverly (have never met anyone under 40 called this which make it hard to picture a baby Beverly, but why not?!)

I imagine a lot of people with these names which makes it difficult to envisage a baby iwth it. For instance, I've never met a nice Joanne, so that name is immediatley stuck of.

Is that why they are so unpopular as baby names? The users of them haven't died out yet so ownership remains with the older generation until that happens and memories fade?

I'm trying to think of who I went to school with;

Melanie
Susan
Kathryn
Karen
Sarah
Rachel
Claire

Debbie
Vickie
Julie
Mandy
Cindy
Verity
Kim

Thinking of babies I know who were born in the 80s
Melanie
Lisa
Toni
Stacey
Colette
Chelsey
Kelly
Jade
Kylie
Charlene
Holly
Louise
Jessica

I wanted to call my dd Vanessa but in the early 00's when she was due, that Vanessa Feltz (?) was still on telly a lot and was really associated with that name. It is still one of my favourite girls names & would be fine these days when that Vanessa has disappeared from our screens.

My class in the 80's were
Claire
Laura
Vicky
Julie
Nicola
Karen
Michelle
Fiona
Donna
Adelle

Kirsty
Jennifer
Nicola
Gemma
Victoria
Natalie
Louise
Michelle
Hayley
Stephanie
Helen
Zoe
Rachel
Karen
Carly
Heather
Angela
Melanie
Sian
Andrea
Carla
Lisa
Kerry
Melissa
Suzanne
Deborah
Paula
Kathryn
Gillian
Christina
Marie
Jodie
Sonia
Dawn
Sally
Linda

I didn't know that Fiona was a 1980s name. There were tons of them when I was at school, in Scotland, all from the 1960s, very rare now. On the point though, Lauren comes to mind.

Yes, maybe Fiona peaked more in the 70s than 80s.

Natalie
Sarah
Louise
Lisa
Stacey
Tracy
Laura
Kelly
Kerry
Gemma/Jemma
Kirsty
Lizzie (elizabeth)
Hayley

Wendy, Sophie, Jessica

Most popular names in the 80s: www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/1984-to-2009.html

And here's for 70s: www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2011/06/1974-to-2009.html