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

I was born in the early 80's and went to school with about a million Emma's ( me being one of them- cheers for that mum!)

Also...

Helen
Helena
Rebecca/ Becky
Victoria / Vicky
Sarah
Catherine
Joanne
Zoe

Going from my childhood friends (I was born in 1981):
Natalie
Katherine/Catherine
Louise (was everybody's middle name it seemed)
Vicky
Michelle
Karen
Lizzie
Caroline
Heather
Pippa (Philippa)
Penny (Penelope)
Lisa
Helen
Gemma/ Jemma
Joanna/ Joanne
Laura
Zoe
Marie/ Maria
Eleanor
Tamsin
Claire
Jennifer
Adele

School friends from the 80's (born mid 70's) included;

Rebecca (Becky)
Rachel
Caroline
Imogen
Sarah
Emma
Kate
Tracey
Nicola
Tina
Zoe
Natalie
Clair(e)
Gaynor
Catherine
Collette
Eve
Lynn
Emily
Juliet
Gillian
Helen
Ruth
Lisa
Alison
Samantha
Anastasia (known as Stacey)
Jane

Just a few for you to be going on with there OP.....

I know a 4 year old Shirley and a 3 year old Gloria!

Shirley is ace!
Also Louise.
I love Susan (more 70s though...) I think Sue is a really pretty spund.

sound not spund...

Although, if you truly want to embrace naming trends from the 80's then the only thing that really matters is the middle name.

For a girl, it must be Louise or Jane. Possibly Anne or Claire. Nothing else was allowed though. I remember DM commenting that my friend Louise's parents were "unimaginative" because they gave their DD a "middle name as a first name".

Brave words from the mother of Emma Jane and Sarah Louise . Pot. Kettle. Black.

Julie
Julia
Christina
Jane
Lisa
Hannah
Tracey
Nicola
Amanda
Susan
E!izabeth
Sarah
Sandra
Pamela
Jennifer
Sharon
Natalie
Melanie
Pippa
Class mates in 1985

Half my class (quite literally) were called either Susan, Jennifer or Debbie.

I was very pleased to have an unusual name!

I used to wish I was called Sarah Jane Santa's

Fiona is lovely
Nicola
Tracy
Diane
Susan
Linda
Julie
Betty

I was in secondary school in the 80s - names I can remember in my year:

Heather x 2
Amanda x 2
Helen x 2
Julie x 2
Jennifer x 2
Elaine x 2
Alaine
Judith
Lorraine
Sandra
Olwen
Karen

My circle in the late 70s and 80s was:

Helen
Paula
Debbie
Audrey
Bernadette
Susan
Yvonne
Rebecca
Maria
Karen
Ann
Katherine
Theresa
Geraldine
Philomena
Jane
Joanne

A random selection of my 80s born friends:
Sarah
Rebecca
Alison
Susan
Suzanne
Jennifer
Rachel
Katherine
Kirsty
Emma
Nicola
Hannah

Zoe
Francine
Danielle
Natalie
Jennifer
Gemma
Stephanie
Bethany
Hannah
Kirsty
Naomi
Joanne
Helen
Claire
Andrea
Sally
(80s kids I've known) :)

Samantha
Kayleigh
Melissa
Louise
Keeley
Hayley
Katie
Jade
Gemma
Laura
Faye
Claire
Emily
Natalie
Victoria
Lucy
Leanne

I was born in the mid-eighties, and it seemed like all the girls in my year were called either Sarah, Katie, Claire, Laura, or Lauren. There were also loads of Maria's, although that may have been due to the location (sizable Greek community) more than the era.

Gemma, Hayley, Stephanie, Jennifer, Danielle, and Natalie also stick out as eighties names for me.

I remember Elizabeth and Anne were really popular as middle names.

Jana
Nina
Sarah
Julia
Alana
Caroline
Elisa
Anne
Andrea
Katja
Anna
Sandra
Laura
Eva

Girls in my peer group at school in the 80s:
Caroline
Louisa
Jane
Jennifer
Katie
Sarah
Sally
Victoria
Gemma
Carly
Rebecca
Alison
Laura
Emma
Naomi
Hayley
Julie/Julia
Natalie
Claire
Samantha
Deborah
Leanne
Lisa
Joanne
Lydia
Kelly
Kerry
Tracey
Sharon
Francesca
Beth
Charlotte
Danielle

Claire. Rachael. Gemma. Helen. Sarah. Michelle, Kimberley. Natasha. Deborah, Theresa, Elspeth. Angela, Lois, Louise, Kelly. Kirsty. Laura. Verity. Victoria, Catherine, Karen, Melanie, Tamsin. Penelope. Nicola, Shauna, Lisa. Wendy, Jane. Susan, Elizabeth, Hannah, Alison .Amber. Jacqueline, Anna.

My DD is a 1981 born Nicola.
Her peers were Claire, Victoria, Hayley, Rachel, Laura (and Lauren) and oh so many Sarahs

With of course the inevitable Louise as a second name

80's secondary school
Julie, Sarah, Amanda, Nicola, Claire, Susan, Lisa, Joanne, Sharon, Deborah,

My mum is Amanda and she was born 1959. Foreward thinking grandma?!