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.

Emma
Laura
Rebecca
Victoria
Kathryn/Kate
Amy
Abigail
Bethany
Danielle
Jessica
Natalie
Sarah
Naomi
Jennifer
Alexandra
Louise
Rachel
Georgina
Joanna
Chelsea
Kayleigh

Andrew
Robert
Daniel
Ian
Anthony
Gary
Gareth
Paul
Christopher
David
Jonathan
Luke
Matthew
Michael
Nicholas
Owen
Peter
Richard
Stephen
Jason
Darren

Lots of Graeme, Stuart (with various spellings), Kenneth

For girls, Lesley, Cheryl, Moira, Jeanette

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

I know a few Michaels born in the past year.

Charlotte
Katherine (or variants of)
Rachel

James
Ben

Joanne
Claire
Paul
Stephen
Andrew

I think at one of my primary schools EVERY girl in the class was called Claire, Louise or Emma

Also remember lots of Debbie, Rachel, Sally, Joanne, Hayley, Sarah and Alison.

Boys....Craig, Lee, Wayne, Dean, Andrew, Ian, Matthew, Christopher

Melanie

Karl

Would never ever be used now.

Michael & Christopher - I had at least 2 in every class in high school
Jess - 3 of them were in my friendship group.
Daniel
Hannah
James
David
Alex

Natasha

I'm from Canada, so a different selection than in the UK.

Girls:
Stephanie
Meghan
Sarah
Kate/Katie/Caitlin/Katelyn
Jessica

Boys:
Brandon
Matt
Bradley
Andrew
Cody

Deborah, Jacqueline, Stephanie.
I also remember a couple of Lorraines.

I’m obviously waaay older than previous posters!
In my era there were:
Hilary
Sheila
Ann
Judith
Jane
Sandra
Josephine
Linda
and the lads
Barry
Trevor
Jeremy
Anthony
Jeffery
Colin
Child of the 60’s

For girls Laura, Lauren, Sarah, Kate, Katie, Jennifer, Rachel, Rebecca (80% of these with middle name Louise or Elizabeth). Also a tonne of Emilys and Hannahs though these are still pretty popular now.

And for boys Christopher, Joshua, Ian, Craig, Andrew, Stephen, Neil, Scott, Michael

Some of these are still popular now though; Emma and James for example!

Girls names:
Joanne
Debbie
Carla
Nicola
Claire / Clare
AnneMarie
Dawn
Natalie
Sarah

Boys names:
John
Paul
Carl
Steven
Shaun
Jake
Andrew
Robert / Robbie

Early 70s baby!

I was late 70s baby.

We had three Ryan’s in my primary school class and everyone else was called Hannah, Louise or Claire. Oh and a couple of Daniels and two Stephens as well.

There are no duplicate names in DS (6)’s class. I think there’s generally a wider spread of names.

Emma
Sarah
Claire

Lots of Claires and variations on Kate/Katie/Katherine. Couple of Helens, a few Carolines (now those two are due a comeback). Victoria/Vicky. Stephanie. Knew a couple of Amandas too.

There was a bit more variety in boys' names, I think. The only multiple ones I can think of are Christopher and Mark. Oh, and Robert. We had Gary, Gareth, Philip, Richard, Paul, Nigel (!). There was an Oliver and his name was thought of as extremely unusual and a bit 'weird'! I also remember a couple of Jameses, thinking about it, and an Alex, but they're still popular today.

@WhydoesItAlwaysRainMe

Emma Sarah Claire

Those names will never quite go out of fashion, they are classic. Lovely names as are Jane, Louise, Catherine and Charlotte. You can't go wrong with them.

Oh, how could I forget Sarah? Quite a few of those.
Girls' middle names tended to be Elizabeth or Louise. Boys', I don't know. Clearly boys didn't discuss their middle names.

Claire, Louise, Emma, Gemma, Sarah, Michelle. Middle names Elizabeth, Jane, Marie.

David, Michael, Gareth, Matthew, Andrew, Stephen, Gary, John.

Andrew
David
Mark
Paul
Steven/Stephen

Claire
Louise
Lisa
Emma

On the flip side there was a Sophie and it was a really unusual name - only 1 in the school and 2 in the town of around 30,000 people! How times change.

My secondary school was girls. Common names were
Mary (it was Catholic as well)
Susan
Linda
Deborah
Catherine
Kim

Boys names I remember from primary
Terence
Trevor
Martin
John

I really like the name Sarah.

Harriet
Emily
Rachel
Lucy
Philippa
Charlotte
Hannah

Ben
Tom
Jack
Alex