Rachel

[kaytee87]

Timeless or dated?

I know a 7 month old Rachel.

I like all your suggestions, especially Sarah.

Love Rachel, Sarah, Emma and Elizabeth. I think they're timeless, classic.
Love William and James.

Dislike Andrew and Matthew.
Prefer Nicholas, Clement, Conrad, Dominic.

Very dated - makes me think the person will be 30/40 years old. Nothing wrong with it though if you love it.

I have a 11yo Rachel. Love it

Timeless. Love it.

Rachel Elizabeth is lovely. Timeless.
Like Emma too but not with Elizabeth as mn
Prefer Matthew to Andrew.
Andrew is dated to me.

I adore Rachel.

Matthew is nice! Does not seem to have dated, same with Emma (which I also like) as both names still linger around the top 50.

Not particularly keen on Sarah or Andrew though.

Lovely. Unusual now, too.

I like Rachel. Emma is lovely too.

I have a 15 year old Rachel, who was named after her great-grandma who died just before she was born - so certainly timeless!

She's Rachel, Rachy, Rach, Rachy-baby ......

She would have been Matthew if she had been a boy!

I love it, one of my favourite names.

If you dismiss a name like Rachel for being dated (though I don't think it is personally), and go for a more current name, that current name will be dated in a few decades time anyway. Name popularity chops and changes, so by that logic everyone's name (unless it's an unusual one) will seem dated at some point in their lives.

I'm not a fan of the soft cutesy names that are popular now anyway, so maybe I'm biased!

I like it. Very classic .

In a similar vein I like Peter for a boy and never understood why it's never really suggested

Timeless. Beautiful name, my eldest dd is Rachel.

No, It's the future Karen

Love it. Sarah is good too.

Emma is lovely. Lucy is cute too

I have an almost 21 year old Rachel. I love it. I wanted it for my child’s name from the time I was around 8yrs old & a new neighbour moved in next door with a daughter called Rachel.
(By the way, her middle name is Louise).