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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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Elderflower14 · 10/12/2018 07:43

@BasilFaulty. My eldest son was called Jack. Sadly he only survived two hours. 😔
Wilf is named after Wilfred Owen.

Vitalogy · 10/12/2018 07:45

BasiliskStare We have David's and Dave's Smile I love it but then I'm bias Smile

GrumpySausage · 10/12/2018 07:45

I know of a Joan aged 9. I think it suits her.

I've heard a lot of the names mentioned above- I know of a few Elsie's, Wilf's, Stanley's. I know a Margot too.

Give it 10 years and Sarah, Elaine and Gary will all be back.

CountFosco · 10/12/2018 08:12

Pretty much all names will come back at some point unless they have a long lasting negative connection and were rare anyway, like Adolf in this country. Or, as people say the meaning changes. But e.g. Dick or Willy are short for Richard and William both of which are good names so it's just the nn that disappears.

A name needs to be euphonious.

I'm not even sure about that. Lots of people don't like names with hard consonants but there's a minority of us that prefer them. Personally I don't like all the cutesy Victorian servants names that are given to girls these days and prefer names that are hated above for sounding harsh like Gertrude, Ingrid or Hilda. In fact the only reason DD was not one of those is because she would have had exactly the same name as a friend of mine at school and that would have been weird. And DS would have had Margaret as a middle name if he'd been a girl (he's Robert instead, also maligned on this thread).

IsThereRoomAtTheInn · 10/12/2018 08:25

David also came up in a search I made of the most common name (in the UK?) It came out as David Smith!

The only baby David I can remember was the fictional one in The Royle Family.

Tiredandemotional123 · 10/12/2018 08:26

Grandparent names seem to come back in fashion. I know a Bernard, Margaret and a Percy Confused.

I'm always surprised by names that were popular when I was a kid e.g Andrew, Ian, David, Michael, Robert, Helen, Sarah, Alison etc.

Tiredandemotional123 · 10/12/2018 10:00

Michelle, Gemma, Lindsey, Mark, Neil, Ashley....

Vitalogy · 10/12/2018 10:16

The only baby David I can remember was the fictional one in The Royle Family. Oh yeah, I'd forgot about that. Daddy David and baby David Smile

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/12/2018 11:28

Doreen
Doris
Eileen
Mavis
Linda (Although my did had a boy in her class who had a little sister called Linda )
Brenda
Judith
Edna
Shirley
Dillis (Not sure of the spelling, sorry)Blush
Gladys
Hilary

Trevor.
Herbert
Norman
Nigel.
Cecil
Cyril. (Again though another exception yo the rule my dd had a Cyril in her school
Martin
Although its hard to predict, isn't it.
As I never thought Norma and Arthur would come back. To me They're not even cute old fashioned names. They're very serious. I don't get the obsession with Arthur, sorry. That's another thread though.

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/12/2018 11:30

I wish I could go 50 years into the future and see the baby name threads.

midsomermurderess · 10/12/2018 11:43

I don't think Doris and Vera do fall into that category and I know a couple of Dorises in their 20s. Neville, Trevor, otoh. With girls I think it's harder to know.

Rumboogie · 10/12/2018 11:55

Elsie is a lovely name, I think.

Arthur - already returning.
Constance, (Connie)
Patience - don't think that will come back.
Josephine.
Not many Geraldines around
Kathleen
Joyce
Mary (not Marie or Maria)

Awwlookatmybabyspider · 10/12/2018 12:08

Elder flower, Flowers

LovelyBranches · 10/12/2018 12:54

Rumboogie
I know a nearly 2 year old Arthur, a 3 year old Elsie, a newborn Mary and a 1 year old Constance.

MrsMarigold · 10/12/2018 13:00

I know an Elsie, Daphne, Mabel, Sadie, Mary and my niece's middle name is Joan

fleshmarketclose · 10/12/2018 13:22

Dilys, Dulcie and Cissie and Fanny
Vernon, Algernon and Kevin

ViragoKnows · 10/12/2018 13:27

I was at school with a Dulcie (1980s).

Whyislarryhappy · 10/12/2018 13:28

Always thought Mabel, Edith, Pearl for girls buy have recently met little people with those names. Also for boys - Jonas and Ted!
Although I'm pretty certain Winifred, Norman, Howard and Doris won't make an appearance but you never know!

ViragoKnows · 10/12/2018 13:31

I can’t imagine Bernard coming back.

ScreamingNotWaving · 10/12/2018 13:32

Deidre
Ethel
Agnes
Doris

Although there is an Ethelea (Et-el-ay-uh) in my daughter's class.

TheFuckfaceWhisperer · 10/12/2018 13:58

Some of you (maybe you're very young) are getting your time periods mixed up. There is no way that Brenda, Janet, or Sandra are 'seventies names'. My aunt born in the 40s was Janet. I would say it was a 40s/50s name really

I was born in 1970 and we had several Janets at school in the 80s! There were at least 10 just in my year.

We had one Marilyn in my year too. And s few double barrelled names like Lesley-Ann, Ann-Marie etc

fleshmarketclose · 10/12/2018 14:05

Lots of Janets in my year at school I was born 67.

BasilFaulty · 10/12/2018 14:07

@elderflower14 Flowers

Stereomum · 10/12/2018 14:10

Joyce, Lisa, Barry.

Pemba · 10/12/2018 15:38

Amazing how many people say they were born in the 70s and went to school with lots of Janets. And yet it doesn't even feature in the top 100 names for 1974, for example. I was born even earlier (60s) and don't remember any Janets at school. But could be regional, as I said before.