Names you like of your era that have gone out of fashion

[IdaBWells]

I was born in the late 60s so was at primary school in the 1970s and names I heard then that I don’t hear so much now and liked:

Tamsin
Farrah
Anoushka
Georgina

Born in Ireland in the mid 60s. I went to school with many Christines, Lauras, Emmas, Nicolas, Suzannes, Karens, Carolines, Rachels, Alisons, Jacquelines, Helens and Catherines - all nice names imo.

I recall many others also mentioned here, and of course many Irish names that are still very much in in Ireland and now crossing the Irish Sea.

mathanxiety I had a couple of Irish friends born in that era called Patricia (both going by Tricia). I was so surprised when my 15 yr old American dd said she might call a dd Patricia. It seemed so ordinary then but is starting to become more and more unusual.

I know a Matthew, Kevin, Simon and an Emma, Lucy and Katie (Katherine) who are all under the age of 9.... when I was at school we couldn’t move for the number of Sarah’s, David’s, Andrews and Michelle’s.
Can’t say I like any of these though except Emma (think that’s due to being F.R.I.E.N.D.S. fans) and Lucy.
There were loads of Victoria’s and Adams too

Valerie, Jacqueline, Jane.

Michael, Ian.

@mathanxiety I am irish and a similar era to you. Those names all ring through. You just need to add in Aoife, Siobhan, Niamh, Ciara and a few other Irish names in and you are sorted

Susan
Linda
Margaret
Gerald
Stephen
Colin

Alan, Neil, Graham, Ian

Lisa

Sarah and Rebecca will come back, I think, given their Biblical origins. Louise seems destined to be replaced with Louisa for ever (all girls seem to have names ending in A now). Solid names like Catherine will probably come back once people start naming their children after their granny Cathy

My 9 year old has been putting together a name list for his future children. I was surprised to see Rachel on there as the only one he knows is a friend's mum. Very pretty name though so should make a comeback.

My class was full of girls with these lovely names-
Victoria
Katie
Sarah
Emma
Laura
Lucy
Joanna/Joanne

Matthew, Andrew, Richard, Robert, Nicholas, Russell, Craig, Martin, Ryan, Simon

Claire, Rachel, Jennifer, Amy, Louise, Nicola, Hannah, Helen, Zoe, Caroline, Deborah

I started school in 1983 & the most popular names were;
Becky, Joanna, Louise, Emma, Kate/Katy, Donna, Samantha, Vicky, Stephanie, Melanie, Caroline.
Tom, Daniel, David, Stephen, Stuart, Joe, Alex, Nick, Barry, Luke, Peter, Lee, Christopher.
At my DC school there are lots of double barrelled names, Lily-Rose, Kitty-Anne, Elsie-Rae, Lottie-Lou, Maisie-May etc. There were no children at school with me that had double barrelled names. Everyone had a middle name, they just didn’t use it.

The only hyphenated name of my age group is Anne-Marie.

The only hyphenated name of my age group is Anne-Marie.

Did you not know anyone called Sarah-Jane?

No hyphenated names when I was at school either.

Only Anne-Maries at my school as well. In fact, 90% of girls had Ann/e or Marie as middle names. No surprise in a Catholic school, I suppose.

No. Most Sarahs were Sarah Jane and I know an Emma-Jane but she wasn't at my school.

I'm late 70s. There were four Louises (which I don't like) and four Joannes (which I do) in my class alone, and loads more if you took the year as a whole. Also a bunch of Rachels, Claires, and Lauras, all of which I really like but which aren't too popular at the moment.

Boy's names of that era I am less keen on. I really dislike Craig, Stuart, Paul, and Graham, which appear to have fallen out of fashion just now. However, there were also a lot of Matthews, Marks, James etc and I am sure these are still used, although perhaps not as much as they were. I do think boys' names are generally less subject to fashion than girls'.

Late 60s Irish child here. Loads of Fiona's in my class as well as Jean, Deirdre, Theresa, Sharon, Yvonne, Susan and Suzanne, Mary, Margaret, Ann, Geraldine, Patricia

I remember more hyphen names when I was at school than at my dcs schools.

Ann-Marie
Mary-Jane
Sarah-Jane
Marie-Anne
Lee-Ann

Names ending in consonants were more common for girls esp n endings

Alison
Gillian
Susan
Carolyn
Karen
Ellen
Helen
Tamsin
Vivian
Joann

And more boys names ending in vowels esp L

Neil
Paul
Will
Michael
Nigel
Russell

Common names in my peer group: Sharon, Tracey, Claire, Susan, Kelly, Gillian, Samantha, Paula and Paul, Mark, Andrew, Adrian, David. It seemed quite strange to me when dd2 told me she had a "Dave" in her class. He must be about 12 now. Can't be many 12-year-old Dave's around?

Apologies for errant apostrophe.

Janet, Wendy, Sharon, Julie, Ruth, Tracey, Sandra, Helen, Philippa, Debra, Christine, Gwyneth, Donna, Anne, Gaynor, Jane.

Tim, Douglas, David, Michael, Andrew, Richard, Kevin, Mark, Carl, Jonathan, Graeme, Gary, Terry, Neil.

Bet you can guess what era I'm from

90s High School (Late 30s and leaving out anything unique enough to identify)

Girls were :

Sarah, Emma, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Katherine, Marie, Katrina, Jenny, Laura, Natalie, Natasha, Kelly, Louise

Boys

Simon, Steven, Matt, Peter, Colin, Chris, David, Ross, Lee, Carl, Michael, Andrew, Anthony, Paul

All very standard : of them now I'd only use Elizabeth and Peter personally

Katherine is a timeless name but I've met too many Kate's I disliked