Popular first names from your childhood that aren't popular now

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I remember so many Ryan's , don't know any now.

Tracey, Julie, Vicky, Paul, Liam, David.

Chloe
Lauren
Jessica
Megan
Hannah
Rebecca
Bethany
Amy
Emma
Abigail
Rachel
Courtney
Shannon
Caitlin
Nicole

Callum
Ryan
Adam
Luke
Kieren
Nathan
Cameron
Bradley
Brandon
Kyle
Reece
Aaron
Owen

They’re still common names but I haven’t heard of any babies born with these names lately

Hayley
Jenny/Jennifer/Jen
Amy/Amie/Aimee
Catherine/Kathryn/Katie/Kate/Kat
Jessica/Jess
Danielle
Stephanie
Lauren
Emma
Toni
Alex/Alexandra/Alexandria/Alexis/Alexia/Alexa
Charlotte
Kelly
Louise
Claire
Emma
Laura
Kerry
Tara
Jenna
Olivia
Natasha
Chantal/Chantelle
Nicola/Nichola
Zara/Sara
Rebecca
Victoria

Oliver
Andrew (sooooooooo many Andrews)
Alistair
Stuart
David
Wayne
Richard
Jack
Edward
Thomas/Tom
Wesley
Rupert
Luke
Dominic
Simon
Adrian
Michael
William
Henry
Harry
Greg
Daniel
Christopher
Christian
Mark
Matthew

Was at school in the 90s-00s

Oh and Adam and James!

Lisa, Melissa

Caroline was so popular in my year at secondary school

Samantha
Jody
Caroline
Cheryl
Keiley

Terry
Billy
Wayne
Barry
Ryan

Born 1980

I know a billion David's and Michaels but no children if that name

Similarly only one child Christopher despite every other friend of mine being married to a chris.

I went to school with many Kirstys and Michelle, none now.

You also dont get Katie much...

Not in the UK but I know plenty of primary school kids with names listed eg Sarah, Emma, Michael, David, Andrew, Katie, Jane, Amy.

Popular names from when I was a kid that I don’t know of any now are:

Michelle
Karen
Stuart
Sinead
Siobhan
Paul
Terry
Stephen
Deirdre
Anne
Caroline
Fiona
Ruth

Lisa. Michelle. Joanne.

Amy
Emma
Gemma
Louise

Lizzie

You never hear it anymore because they’re all called Liz or Elizabeth now. There were several Lizzie’s in my year at school.

Other names of my era that are rarely heard now:

Beverley
Lorraine
Kim
Amanda
Linda
Lisa
Diane/a
Tracey (such a pretty name actually)
Sharon
Michelle

Boys were: Mark, John, Anthony, Nick, Simon, Ian, Julian, Jeremy, David, Stephen, Martin, Phil, Mike/Mickey, Robert and then Gary, Shaun (eek), Darren, Kevin.

It's interesting how the generations change.

Samantha
Michelle
Claire
Nichola

Jason
David
Jonathan
Steven

Sheila, Linda, Ann, Glenda, Yvonne, Dorothy most of the girls (small school).

Jacqueline
Linda
Janet
Susan
Gillian
Judith
Janice
Lesley
Maureen
Lorraine
Paul
Alan
David
Mark
Derek
Stephen
Christopher
Peter
Martin
Roger
Colin
Philip

Reckon we are all Grandparents now!

Sarah, Peter, David, Lisa - 80's child.

girls , sharon , tracey , michelle , mandy , jane , and for the boys there were a lot of marks , simon , jason philip . yes i went to school in the 80s lol

Charlotte, sarah and laura were all the rage when I was a kid. I'm 30.

Joanna
Sarah
Clare
Helen
Elizabeth/Liz
Katherine/Kate/Katie
Rachel

Mark
David
Paul
Ian
Jonathan
Matthew
Steven

Kelly , Lisa , Louise
Ian , Ryan , Christopher

Angela
Daphne
Deborah/Debra/Debbie
Jane
Karen
Linda
Paula
Rosemary
Susan
Tania
Vanessa
Wendy

Andrew
Aaron
Anthony
Barry
Carl
David/Dave
Gary
Ian
Jason
Karl
Michael
Paul
Robert
Steven/Stephen/Steve
Trevor
Timothy
Tony

Claire, sarah, emma, vicky
Mark, Andrew, christopher

Claire, Laura, Nicola with Louise as a middle name.
Lots of boys called Chris, Matt and Mark.

Lots of my friends now seem to be married to blokes called Darren - can’t see that coming back.

I'm an early 90s baby - when we did our leavers celebrations/yearbook etc, we worked out that 34% of the yeargroup were called Hannah/Georgia(ina)/Isabel(bella)(variations of same) and that 46% of us had either Rose or Louise as a middle name!