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

58 replies

SecretTryer · 08/12/2016 11:40

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

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Idodo · 09/12/2016 06:51

In the words of beautiful south:

Jennifer. Alison, Philippa, Sue, Deborah, Annabel too ...
Oh Shirley, oh Deborah, oh Julie, oh Jane ...

SantasLittleMonkeyButler · 09/12/2016 09:38

I used to wish I was called Sarah Jane

I used to wish I was called Chloe Gabriella Faye Grin. Ahead of my time obviously!

NerrSnerr · 09/12/2016 10:06

Claire
Rachel
Nicola
Sarah
Emma

I was born in 1982 and there were loads of these names in my year.

Shesinfashion · 09/12/2016 15:04

Andrea
Claire
Lisa
Michelle
Dawn
Angela
Carol
Samantha
Julie

Horseshoe1 · 09/12/2016 15:41

80s friends

Emma
Katie
Laura
Rachel
Rebecca
Miranda
Camilla
Victoria
Melissa
Louise
Alison

Joinourclub · 09/12/2016 16:01

I'm a 1980 baby. Most popular names from my year group at school:

Sarah / Sara - hugely popular
Vicky/ vicki
Elizabeth / Liz / Lizzie
Anna
Katie
Laura
Emma
Rebecca / Becky
Hannah
Naomi
Zoe
Melanie
Michelle

CancellyMcChequeface · 09/12/2016 16:06

80s-born classmates

Emma
Lisa
Sarah
Catherine
Laura
Kelly
Stephanie
Adele
Nicola
Sandra
Kirsty
Courtney
Jenna
Samantha
Cheryl
Claire
Lucy
Aisling
Kathleen
Daniella
Flora
Annabel
Jessica
Joanna
Natalie
Denise
Maria
Tania
Helen
Natasha
Karen
Tiffany
Dominique
Kerry-Ann

funkygiraffe1980 · 10/12/2016 12:34

I was an 80s child so here's some of the girls I went school with.

Alison
Sarah
Leanne
Nicola
Catherine
Jodie
Joanne
Kirsty
Caroline
Zoe
Kathy
Karen
Emma
Annette
Christina
Tracey
Debbie
Gaynor
Maria
Amy

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