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Old fashioned names you isn’t think will make a come back?

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Hippopotas · 30/11/2018 23:16

Inspired by my watching of White Christmas earlier I’m interested in names people don’t think will make a come back.

My list so far
Edna
Bob
Doris
Vera
Algernon

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HalloweeninCornwall · 30/11/2018 23:16

Gladys

Saddlerider · 30/11/2018 23:17

Colin
Nigel

ernjas · 30/11/2018 23:17

I've always seen Joan as a name that would never make a comeback but have seen it mentioned on here recently.

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Hippopotas · 30/11/2018 23:21

Keith

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GRW · 30/11/2018 23:21

Bertha, Marjorie, Winifred
Derek, Clive, Winston

katseyes7 · 30/11/2018 23:21

Oh, please, not Ethel. lt was my mam's name but l cannot imagine looking at a baby and saying "We'll call her Ethel!"

Mumshappy · 30/11/2018 23:23

Winnie is now being used quite a bit

Marcipex · 30/11/2018 23:24

Evie, Elsie, Alfie, Noah etc all seem extremely old fashioned to me and I'd never have thought they would make a comeback.
I haven't met a little Joan or Oswald yet. But I do know a Mabel, Mona and Albert. I guess Ethel is next.

Snowwontbelong · 30/11/2018 23:26

'Fiz' has called her dd Hilda.
Poor bairn.

RedRoseReb · 30/11/2018 23:28

Cyril, Cecil.

katseyes7 · 30/11/2018 23:29

Snowwontbelong ls that Fiz on Corrie? l haven't watched it for ages, but l always thought 'Hope Stape' was a bit of a mouthful! Hilda's even worse! (apologies to my auntie and cousin)

schooltripwoes · 30/11/2018 23:30

Doris
Margaret
Gladys
Barbara
Diane
Leonard
Daphne
Hilda
Kenneth

Joinourclub · 30/11/2018 23:30

Norris
Norman
Neville
Nigel

Beryl
Barbara
Pamela
Doreen

RedRoseReb · 30/11/2018 23:31

Doreen

TheLastMermaid · 30/11/2018 23:32

Vera will be back, it has that Ivy/Eva/Elsie/Alma vibe to it.

Bob is just Robert, surely? That's at least a generation away from your others. Not common now but not unknown in the under-40s? Or is that.just where I live?

katseyes7 · 30/11/2018 23:32

l remember my friend saying about her dad, who was the loveliest man ever, "what on earth possesses somebody to call a tiny baby Bernard?" Mind you, l married a Nigel, so....

RedRoseReb · 30/11/2018 23:32

I like Pamela and Barbara!

Berniethefastestmilkwoman · 30/11/2018 23:33

I like Margaret.

Marcipex · 30/11/2018 23:33

Pamela and Barbara are sweet, and so is Valerie.

I think Norman has gone forever. But I'd have said that about Albert.

pasbeaucoupdegendarme · 30/11/2018 23:34

I have literally today heard of a baby born with the middle name Edna.

I know two small Daphnes and a small Leonard.

ernjas · 30/11/2018 23:35

I also like Ernest nn Ernie.

JustHereForThePooStories · 30/11/2018 23:36

Rita
Nora

IthinkIsawahairbrushbackthere · 30/11/2018 23:37

Bertha
Malcolm
Muriel
Janet
Susan

dogzdinner · 30/11/2018 23:37

Sheila
Stella

Wayne
Justin
Gary

katseyes7 · 30/11/2018 23:37

My friend had a little boy called "Wilf" in her village. But she said he suited it.