Most underused names?

[mondayyyy]

Can you please share with me some absolutely regular and normal names that are absolutely underused?

My picks are Miranda, Helen, Clive and Mitchell. What are yours?

Peter
Paul
Michael
Christopher
Yvonne
Monica
Ann
Jean

Douglas (dougie)
Frank
Duncan
Janet
Genevieve
Aimee
Ashley was popular in the 80s

In Scotland there’s plenty of young Douglas, Duncan, Adam, I hear Jessica, Christopher, Daniel, Mitchell none of these are unheard of 🤷🏼‍♀️

Misty
Belinda
Ash
Hilda
Brock
Tallulah
Sierra
Barbara
Candela
Debs

@Astraturf

Also I think James and Jessica are perfectly lovely names but you don't see babies called them

I think james has been in the top 10 baby names in Ireland since forever...

Jane, Judith, Tara
Alan, Geoffrey, Mark

Catherine, Margaret, Fiona, Mary
Matthew, David, Simon, John

I heard of a baby called Colin the other day which surprised me!

Oh god I'm going to have grandchildren called Gary and Darren aren't I.

My neighbours have children in their early 20s called Anita and Clive!

Amanda, Claire, Joyce, Louise, Sally, Theresa
Duncan, Francis, Keith, Martin, Neil, Stephen

Pippa
Avril is really nice also April
Craig

Angela
Julie
Alison
Jillian
Susan
Amanda

Janet
Barbara
Fiona
Lesley
Pamela
Susan
David
Kevin
Scott

Derek

Some of these are really popular names.

James was 22nd in 2019 with 2336 baby James’ in that year alone.
Adam was 39th most popular
Daniel 40th most popular (much higher if you add all the spellings)
Michael 70th
John was 131st most popular (higher if you count Jon in there too)

33rd most popular girls is Jessica (1439 baby Jessicas)
83rd most popular girls - Abigail
125th most popular - Pippa

We have a surfeit of James round our way

Names that are outside the top 1000 which generally have fewer than 25 born in any one year in the UK at the moment -

Lionel
Carl
Harold
Manuel
Julius
Conrad
Darren
Emile
Percival
Craig
Elvis
Jerome
Clarke
Augustus
Lucius

And for girls

Tess
Nicola
Dora
Rosalind
Barbara
Kathleen
Caroline
Carina
Della
Viola
Vivian/Vivien
Sally
Anne
Collette
Anita
Valerie
Christine
Clarissa
Ethel
Mavis
Bridie
Rhiannon

I know two Mirandas, both children!

Also know Tess, Della, Dora, Rhiannon and Adam.

Michael, Stephen, Simon, Mark, Paul, Nigel, Gary, Barry

Margaret, Barbara, Janet, Susan, Deborah, Stephanie, Jackie, Rebecca, Rachel, Clare, Sarah, Alison

Oh yes, Douglas, Philip, Derek, Graham, Peter, John

Fiona

Girls: Catherine, Geraldine, Samantha, Susan

Bridget
Vanessa
Natasha
Belinda
Rosalind

Lawrence
Adam
Ross
Cliff

Gillian. There were no babies named Gillian last year. It is so disliked no-one on MN even thinks of it.

Aren't these mostly just names that were en vogue during a certain period which you'd be mad to use now/are dated e.g. Gary, no offence to any Gary's (my DH ) but it's just an incredibly ugly name.