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

Nora was on my short list
DD is Edith

Boo to the Ruth haters. It's lovely.

Ds would have been an Adelaide had he been a girl!

Bertha
Beryl
Mavis
Norma

I like a lot of the "old lady" names but dd has what I would call a timeless name.

Dd goes to nursery with a little Ida, she's adorable. I also know of little girls called Margaret, Vera, Reenie (sp?) and Rita.

Gasp I wanted Euphemia, DH said no way so we went for Elspeth.

I love Ida. I'm surprised it's not more popular

I'd quite like Velma to come back so I can use it without a side-eye

I think Velma could come back. It's so retro I love it.

I know 2 little Maggie's (one Margaret, the other Marjorie)
A little Scott
Rita who is the same age as Scott
Dorothy, nn Dotty (baby)
A 5 year old Alan
A 7 year old Martha
And my DD is called Bernadette.

Devastated to find in a book of names that my name, Kay , is apparently an old lady name ! I am 52!

I know a Dilys which is lovely I think .

wizzler
I have a cousin called Kay and it seems to be quite a rare name as we have only ever met two or three others between us. I don't think it's ever been popular, so don't see how it can date you.

Kay maybe coming back a bit. My DSD is in Y7 and there are 2 Kay in her year.

The only Beryl I know has 4 hooves and a mane.

I know a Kaye who is a child. She is the only Kaye I have ever met actually.

Also know children called Edith, Constance, Martha, Kezia, Maggie, Wilma etc. Quite a lot of the names mentioned here actually.

However, all these things go in cycles. My mum, now in her 80s, told me that when she was a child all the girls called Margaret and Betty etc felt really sorry for the girls who had been lumbered with the terrible old lady names like...Emma and Amy

What about Roberta? That's a name that I think would be unusual these days.

Many of the names mentionefld have origns from other countries are quite normal everyday modern names. Ida and Nora for example. Normal modern names else.

Though I would never call a child Persephone, as I have seen here. If you want to go to Finland. Perse means arse in Finnish. Arse Phone always makes me chuckle

The ones I don't see, which were rife on the hospital wards when I worked there (ten years ago) are:

Valerie and
Phyllis

At one time it seemed every other patient was called one of these.

And Donald for male patients. .

I think some of the names mentioned, like Edith, have already had a surge in popularity.

The ones which have been rarely used and which I reckon are due for an airing are:

Jane
Mary
Susan
Deborah
Kay
Julia
Paula
Dorothy nn Dot
Elizabeth nn Betty

The names from the worst witch books-

Mildred
Maud
Ethel
Enid
Agatha

I had forgotten Phyllis. I knew a few growing up, older women called Phil!

On my local McDonald's a couple of years ago was a wonderful piece of graffiti - "Phyllis was here". . Either Gran got out of the retirement home and went on a bender or there's a rebel teenager out there called Phyllis (probably because she's has the name 'Phyllis').

royalfatty Id love to come across a baby Bernadette! It's my mums name but you never seem to come across it these days

fir she's 3 now. Its a beautiful name.

Niña means girl in Spanish.

I like the name Esther.

Also Greta.