Staying one generation ahead of "cool"

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So, we all know the current wave of trendy vintage "cool" names being revived (Ada, Vera, Beatrice, Wilfred, Stanley, Albert, etc), but the problem is that kids don't appreciate how cool their names are! It's just their name to them! And by the time they're in their 20s and 30s and old enough to appreciate it, these names will all be done to death and boring. The new Clares and Emilys and Johns and Davids.

So what we need is a baby name that is not even close to being cool yet, but will be in 25 years. The cool names of the next generation! So that when my child is in his/her 20s, everyone will just be starting to think what a cool and unique name it is!

Any ideas?

There is no way on god's earth that names like Susan or Paul will ever be seen as cool, just no way I don't care how many decades tick by.

1940s names like

Robert
Jerry
Douglas
Roy
Gregory
Martin
Gene
Gordon
Jerome
Craig
Alan
Gilbert
Glen
Ted
Neil
Hugh
Sidney
Guy

Judy
Betty
Maggie
Donna
Kathy
Dottie
Joanie
Gloria
Marilyn
Bonnie
Phyliss
Pamela
Elaine
Christina
Rita
Gail
Carol
Lois
Jackie
Suzie
Patsy
Louisa
Marcia
Lorraine
Constance
Edna
Victoria
Audrey
Julie
Hazel
Angela
Jill

notas

I really like the name Anita

Karen, Jane, Amanda, Gary, Cathy, Alison, Brian, Joanne, Patrick, Anthony, Peter, Timothy, Jonathan, Andrew, Helen, Tina, Joanne, Victor

Names from my Primary class in 1976

Trevor

Boy or girl. Think this is destined to make a comeback very soon. Would never in a million years have said this 20 years ago but now any name goes so why not?

Gary needs to make a comeback!

Dale was a popular 70s name I think.

What about:
Mark
Paul
David
Barry
Christopher
Philip
Nicholas
Sean/Shaun
Stephen/Steven
Ross
Neil
Brian

And girls:
Carol / Caroline
Melanie
Helen
Catherine
Samantha
Emma
Rachel/Rachael
Cara/Kara
Julie
Jacqueline
Suzanne/Suzanna
Wendy
Jennifer
Tessa
Pamela
Jane
Eleanor
Harriet
Frances

Marcia Eleanor, Harriet and Tessa are popular and used for babies now. Agree with you about the other names though.

Love Gloria.

Margaret for sure- people will use it to try and beat Margot’s popularity

Love this thread! My mum (in her 70s) finds it utterly bizarre that babies are being called things like Iris and Alfred these days. She says the only baby with a 'normal' name she's come across is a baby David - which is of course a popular name for her generation to name their kids, but actually very unusual now. So I don't think current parents of small children are the best arbiters of what will be 'cool' next, other than that it is sure to be names people of our generation dislike!

I love Judith but my husband won't let me!

I think the very next lot of formerly "old-fashioned" names to become popular again will be names of people who are now about 70 or 80, so not quite as old-fashioned as Ada and Vera and Albert seem now, but names like Alan, Brian, Raymond, Roy, Frank, Joyce, Sheila, Pamela, Mary, Irene, etc.

This. Look in Malory Towers or St Clare's for girls' inspiration! Patricia, Gwendoline, Betty, Joan. Sally was popular for decades so I think that could be an option that's not too time-restricted.

Cheryl
Christine - shortened to Chris
Pam