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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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BellMcEnd · 01/12/2018 00:10

Ronald
Godfrey
Gerald
Alan
Arnold

Fanny (snigger)
Maureen
Joan
Bertha

Mainie · 01/12/2018 00:15

But of course they’ll come back — they just aren’t long enough past yet. The current top twenty names people chirp about on the Baby Names forum here — ‘Oh, of course it doesn’t matter that it’s top ten! Lovely names are popular for a reason — because they’re lovely names!’ — are the Wayne, Malcolm, Kevin, Sharon and Linda of their day, after all.

Ilovealexa · 01/12/2018 00:17

Sandra, agnes, Nigel

Minimincepies · 01/12/2018 00:18

I know under 5s called Eileen, Phyllis, Sidney, Walter, Stan, Ernie, Douglas, Gladys and Bert - all names I would have thought were consigned to the past!
I've yet to bump into a Norman or a Gary though...

MissConductUS · 01/12/2018 00:18

Smedley is not coming back.

GreenMeerkat · 01/12/2018 00:19

Basically all the name's in Mambo No. 5.

Maybe except Jessica and Erica.

....... you're all singing it now aren't you?

GreenMeerkat · 01/12/2018 00:19

Names*

Apologies for hideous grammar autocorrect there

Mainie · 01/12/2018 00:19

And I know small children and babies who gave several of the names listed above — I know a Nora (who must be seven), Ursula, Mary, Colin, Ethel, Kevin.

Wanttomakemincepies · 01/12/2018 00:30

Geoff/Geoffrey. My DS keeps making the suggestion as a boy name for new baby but each time it is accompanied by laughter from DS and a head shake from me.

fieryginger · 01/12/2018 00:46

Malcolm.

WellGoshDarnIt · 01/12/2018 00:51

Pauline
Adrian
Barry

Quiltsalot · 01/12/2018 00:52

When I think of my classmates names (children of the 70s) I find it hard to imagine they’ll come back, but no doubt they will

Sharon
Sabrina
Lorraine
Noreen
Ursula
Linda
Maureen
Amanda
Carmel
Evelyn
Shirley
Denise
Barbara
Judith
Christine
Tanya
Tony
Roy
Derek
Darren
Jason
Nigel
Raymond
Walter
Noel
Adrian

plaidlife · 01/12/2018 00:58

Let's just say I was wrong when I thought Theodore would never become a popular name again!
I'm pretty hopeless at guessing this.

OhTheRoses · 01/12/2018 04:38

That list sounds more like my mother's era quilts. My class of 71 was:

Susan, Sally, Gail, Cathy, Jane (2), Denise, Fiona, Charlotte, Beverley, Helen (3) Cheryl, Karen, Lynn, Elizabeth, Margaret, Kim, Amanda, Deborah (2), Caroline, Alison, Claire, Heather

GreenMeerkat · 01/12/2018 04:42

I'm pretty sure Evelyn is a top 20 name.

There are two in the class I used to work with (year 4)

SuperstarDJ · 01/12/2018 05:10

Glynis, Linda, Denise

brizzledrizzle · 01/12/2018 05:14

I pity the ones called Winnie - Winnie the witch/Winnie the pooh anyone?

Kismetjayn · 01/12/2018 05:23

DD's middle name is Violet... But it suits her!
And several of the above in her class.

ViragoKnows · 01/12/2018 05:38

Malcolm
Derek
Dennis
Howard

HalfGreekBitch · 01/12/2018 05:45

Trevor

BikeRunSki · 01/12/2018 05:54

Malcolm
Derek
Jeffrey/Geoffrey

recently · 01/12/2018 05:58

Darren
Lee
Lettice
Percy
Ethel
Algernon
Barry
Beryl

recently · 01/12/2018 06:01

I know a Linda (8) and a Kevin (15).

Donthugmeimscared · 01/12/2018 06:04

I know a 10 year old called Raymond well not that any one calls him his full name.

I think most names go full circle also I remember people saying Grace/Gracie and Rosie were old fashioned but now loads of children are called them.

LegoPiecesEverywhere · 01/12/2018 06:27

Diana
Diane
Steven
Mark
Davis