Could you ever name your child after your mother? Pamela, Teresa, Denise, Brenda, Carol, Barbara, Sandra etc?

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Found these links to most common girls names born in 1940/50s/60s imagine they would be or becoming grand-parents now could you ever name your child after your mother? Seems older names (our grandparents) get used....

www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1940s.html
www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1940s.html
www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/names1960s.html

My mother was a generation earlier than these names and her name is very popular now. My MiL is Lesley which is not a name I think I'd wish on a child of today given its potential school nicknames!

I named one child after a grandparent and it's one of the old-fashioned names that as a child I didn't like much. One of my children has a 50s name as a middle name that I would probably have used as a first name with a shortening for daily use.

I know a small Ethel, more than one Phyllis and a Beryl. I wouldn't count any name out for revival really. We all have different tastes.

Ethel and Beryl! I'd have put money on those names never being revived. Well, well. Any baby Hildas or Mildreds about?

My grandma is called Margaret and her sisters were Elizabeth, Dorothy and Brenda. All 1920s/30s born. I personally wouldn't use any of them. My nanna was Phyllis and her sister Joan. I couldn't use either of those. I love how names come around in circles. When I started primary school the girls were all Rachel, Rebecca, Ruth, Sarah, Louise, Caroline, Catherine, Janine, Jennifer, Julie, Joanne, Amanda, Charlotte, Natalie, Nicola.

Yes, it's fascinating isn't it! I'm also of that generation calamityjam, and in my school it was all Nicola, Samantha, Louise, Rachel, Rebecca, Michelle, Danielle, Chantelle, Natalie, Joanna, Kerry, Sarah, Jennifer etc ... don't think any of those are in top 100 now, but were SO popular then. I did meet an eight year old Nicola the other day though, and it was really lovely on her, sort of refreshing and 'real' sounding when we have all these 'cutesy' names dominating these days.

My family appears stuck in the 40s!

DM, me and DD all have first and middle names from the first 150 of the 40s list. (DD and DM share part of a name a bit like Susan and Susannah as mentioned above but their separate names are in the list.)

I love Hazel, Lillian, Evelyn and Rosa.

DGM was stuck with Gertrude which is one of those names I don't see making a come back.

If I have a DD I want her middle name to be my late Grandmother's name as she was very important to me and DM would also be very touched. It's one of the ones in the thread title, and it goes really well with my surname.

My mother was Penelope, lovely name but unfortunately not a lovely person so it wouldn't be used by me.

Our daughter has all family names. Her first name is after my Great Grandmother, I heard her name for the first time when I was 10 and thought it was the most beautiful name ever, it felt kinda cool to repeat the name 101 years later, luckily DH was on board when I was still set on it years down the line. Her middle names are after my Mother and Mother in law, wouldn't have used them as first names.

Our son also has all family names. 3 weeks before he was born still no name, I partially over heard a conversation at Christmas and heard this name, and immediately knew that was it. I told my DH, he then filled me in on the rest of the conversation I had missed and it is my Father in Laws middle name, he agreed to the name on the proviso that our son's middle name was after my Father.

My mum's name is Alison, which I actually think is very pretty. I can see it coming back into fashion as it’s got quite a current sound (similar to current popular names like Ellie, Alice, Madison etc).

I like Barbara, Susan, Violet, Phyllis, Veronica and Pamela! Ace names.

I think I like them because they aren't that 'ee' ending: Vicky, Becky, Jenny, Julie, Nicky, Lottie, etc reigned supreme in my generation.

Clearly if those names came back they would just end up as Pammy, Susie, etc anyway though heh.

DS1 and DD have all family names, DS2 has family names as his middle names. All quite unusual but not “out there”

I have also felt too young for my name. I'm hardly young now but the name was very popular (number one) in the USA in the 50s and I think most Susans this side of the Atlantic were born in the late 50s and 60s.
So over the years I've introduced myself and two minutes later been referred to as Suzanne. Not terrible but I think people look at my age and see a 'Suzanne' not a Susan. Doesn't matter a lot. People who know you know.

I don't think it will matter for our own daughters as in the 70s only a small percentage of people chose an unusual name. Now everybody is trying to do that. So in decades to come I don't think people will say you're a Hilda, you are therefore 87. You are Hazel, you are 4.

My DD is named after my mum. She loves the fact that she has the same name as her nana and loves to ring her up and say ‘Hi Jennifer!’ And get a ‘Hi Jennifer!’ in return

Don't see anything wrong with them in my opinion, I think it would be refreshing to meet a baby Pamela, very sweet.

My mum was born in 1942 and my dad in 1940. They both have names that are not out of place these days. My grandparents on my mum's side both born in 1914, had names that are trendy now and come up on all the baby name lists. My grandfather on the other side has the same name as my dad but my grandmother was Swedish so her name doesn't ever come up on UK lists.

My friend who has six children called one of her daughter's Susan after her mother. It really suits her, she is about 20 now and very outgoing, fun and vivacious.

I like Susan, Helen and Diana.

I used my mother's name for DD2, Rosemary. My mum's always been known by Molly but she loves her full name too so I used it. Coincidentally, my DD2 is the only person that refers to my mum as Rosemary. The other kids all call her Nanna Molly and my DD, Rosemary but she calls her Nanna Rosemary.

I wish I did. My mams name is Marie and I quite like it now.

Wish I'd of used it for a middle name but I was a stubborn 18 year old!

In my class 60s/70s we had names such as
Mandy
Karen
tracey
Debbie
Julie
Catherine
Jane
Louise
Fiona
Beverley
Gillian
Susan
Sarah

Andrew
Mark
John
David
Stephen
Ian
Paul
Peter
Philip
Michael
John
Richard
Martin
Kevin
Gary
Nigel
Clive

I think sometimes the shortening sounds more dated than the 'proper' name. So Viv, Kathy, Gill, Bev, Sue, Mandy would make me think of people about my mum's age, whereas I wouldn't be quite as sure with Vivienne, Katherine, Susan and Amanda.

I don't find Ruth particularly dated, but I'd expect you to be a churchgoer if you're under the age of about 45 and called that!

My mam’s name is Helena, she’s known as Helen though. I love it. It was quite unusual for a poor mining town in the 50s.

MIL is Marjorie, she hates it. It suits her to a tee!

Of course. Names should have special meanings and if it should mean my mum's name why not. It's been an old practice and I think there's nothing wrong with it plus old mum names are like classic songs. :)

I did! Although Mum is known by a shortened/slightly different of the name my dd is called the same, and although she often goes by a shortened version it is a different shortened version! Did that make any sense?!