Names that WON'T make a comeback

[Greenandcabbagelooking]

Some older names I don't think will be returning:

Ethel
Enid
Sheila
Carol

Archibald
Gary
Brian
Reginald

Any to add?

This is such an annoying post. All names will come back in to use. Ours are named after grandfathers......I'm sure many other people use family names in which case they keep returning.......? Names are so (unimportant?) .....I don't like a lot of names but I love the people who have them.....

@DerbyshireGirly

Definitely Keith.

Nope. I'm a midwife. I've delivered a baby Keith in the last year.

Ah, where we used to live someone named their little girl Isis..... it was 2006, I bet they regret it now and I can't see it being popular in the future either.

And I know a couple of Noras too - actually it’s a name I like myself and my daughter’s name is only one letter different.

I know a baby Kevin

Ronald

Tracey/Tracy
Kelly
Leanne
Angela
Julie
Marilyn
Gwenda
Valerie
Brenda

Boris

@Myownname

What do people think of the name Elliott? Has that come back?

Yes! A couple in our area.

I don't think you can ever say a name won't make a come back. A lot of the names I considered truly awful 20 years ago seen to be popular now. I remember being at school with kids who's names people sniggered at which are names parents are really giving their kids now.

Actually I know of children called

Brian
Alan
Kevin

All from Eastern European backgrounds.

All names come around again. (Except something like Adolf).

When I was a child names like Mollie, Rose, Anna, Emily, Jack, Charlie, Lily, Mae etc were all considered to be old people’s names.

Edna.

Gladys

I think the name Maxine has had its day

I know a few young boys called Douglas.

I've seen Maud, Mavis, Doris, Enid, and Ethel all being seriously considered on these boards in recent times.

I quite like Sally and wouldn't be surprised if that was in the next wave of names.

I feel we won't see a surge in popularity for these names any time soon:

• Roger
• Derek
• Sharon
• Karen
• Deirdre
• Bertha
• Hilda

I love some of these names!

Agree with others that lots of them will be resurrected in a couple of generations.

Of course they’ll all be back, or virtually all! To the older generations around today, the ‘old person chic’ revived names like Bertie, Stanley, Gus, Seth, Ada, Dorothy, Edith etc are just as passé and unimaginable on a baby as Malcolm, Nigel and Keith.

Once enough time has passed Keith will stop sounding like a rotund middle-aged Rotarian in golfing jumpers and will sound like something you could imagine calling your baby.

Philomena (as in Cunk)

@Dita73

I think the name Maxine has had its day

My 13 year old thinks Maxine is the coolest name ever and wishes we had called her that. She says that if she ever has a daughter, that's what she'd be called. So it might make a comeback in 20 years if her peers feel the same

How hasn't Barbara been mentioned yet?

Lesley

Honour

Eugene

How hasn't Barbara been mentioned yet? my dear little hen is called Barbara! 🐓