Old lady names that haven't had a comeback

[GirlcalledJames]

Wondering if any of these will trend:

Eileen, Doreen, Noreen, Maureen
Margery
Dorothy
Doris
Vera
Rita
Norah
Winifred
Mary
Joan
Margaret
Patricia
Ethel
Gladys, Dilys
Edith

Edna
Muriel
Gladys
Hilda
Sibyl
Marjorie
Bertha
All friends and contemporaries of my 91 year old mother, and all names she herself regards as ghastly.

I know a Dorothy who is 7.
A 10 yr old Norah
A 3 year old Winnie
A 9 yr old Margaret
And two 2-yr-old Ediths!

Absolutely love Winnifred! Winnie is the cutest and it's very much on my list! OH love it too.

I like Norah but I called the cat Flora, and rhyming with the cat just doesn't seem right for me, but I do like it for someone else.

Eunice, Angela and Denise don't seem to be back in fashion yet.

I like Winifred too.

I like Nora as well. Nina also, but I think Nina is a bit more modern sounding.

Restingbitch I agree ruth doesn't need a comeback !

I have a dd with the English spelling Milly but everyone uses the American spelling now, she hates her name being spelt wrong constantly.

I know 2 Ediths, a Nora, Freda, Ivy, Agnes and Ida.

The girls from Despicable Me all had 'old lady' names (Agnes, Margot and Edith) which I took as a given that those names were very trendy again.

I know little Noras and a Vera.

I think Edith arrived when Cate Blanchett named her daughter that (didn't she?)

I have an Edith and a Dorothy NN Edie (pronounced eedee) and Dotty.

I worked as a nurse in elderly care for many years and most of these names really do make me think of old ladies - lovely old ladies mainly - but definitely crinkly and creaky. I would try to look enthusiastic if someone introduce their Winifred or Gladys to me, but I'm afraid a flash of 'whaaaatttt were you thinking!' would pass across my face first.

Oh no, my name is on here and I'm only 32! And my baby girl's name has been mentioned 4 times... Do I win the thread?

I do think names go in cycles and I fully expect that my grandchildren will have names from my parents' generation - Linda, Carol, Anne, Barry, Alan, Mike. We will all be horrified of course (they've called her Christine??? That's not a baby's name!) and they won't understand why we don't like it, much like how we can't understand our parents laughing at something as ubiquitous as isobel.

If Yvonne and Yvette make a comeback I'll be horrified.

That's not a baby's name!

It's a pity so many seem to think along those lines. A person is a baby only for the blink of an eye.

I know a Nora. She's three and it's a nn for Eleanor. Really suits her

Agnes
Connie
Josephine
Doris
Delphine

My mother is Doreen (so is my gran, I'm not thankfully but my own name still dates me and is pretty awful). I don't think she was offended I didn't name my dds after her.

Millicent has been mentioned a couple of times- that's DD1's name. I love it , so does she. It stand out at school. She does shorten it to Millie, but she signs herself Millicent when she needs to .

I'm wondering if I know Bibs2014 as my daughters name and age is on her list and there were very few born that year with her name!

I nearly called DD1 Freda but it was just a little bit out there for me at the time. I bet it will grow in popularity as it has a bit of Scandi chic going on too.

Pauline

Patricia

Pamela

Gillian

Jeanette

Carol

Marilyn

Beverley

Beryl

Deborah

Sue

-my mum's friends

Winifred is not a nice name for a baby.

Or a teen.
Or a 40 something
Or an old lady

I met a little baby Mavis the other day.

😱

#PrayForBabyMavis

Winifred isn't looking so bad all of a sudden!

I can't imagine Beryl and Bertha becoming fashionable.

I would have confidently said there's no way Bertha and Beryl will make a comeback. But that was pre Baby Mavis.........and now nothing seems certain anymore. If Trump and Mavis can defy the odds, who knows!

Bertha will certainly never come back. That's in Fanny territory.

Brenda
Maureen
Wilma
Joan
Garnet
Ursula
Judith
Glenda
Gaynor
Marion
Pauline
Lillian
Marigold

Myrtle