What generation of names to we think will come back in fashion next?

[Rose825]

I'm thinking names such as:
David, Peter, Christopher, Ian, Kenneth
Shirley, Barbara, Pamela, Janet, Susan

I guess they're names from the 1940s/50s

I agree, Karen won't come back. It's always women's names that are used as a label for some generational disappointment. Sharon, Tracey, Karen.
I know Gary, Darren and Wayne might sound a bit jaded too though. Were names "tarnished" at all in previous cycles?
Be interesting to know what names 1920s parents would have said, that will never come back about

Tina, Gary, Stacey, Tracey, Kelly.

I think that mid century - John, Peter, Susan, Patricia is the one coming, but I think Edwardian/20s/3Os still has a way to go (Ernest, Arnold, Violet, Ada).

I think we’re a good while off a 70s, 80s revival, even a way off a 60s revival (Melissa, Simon, Dawn) - but some of the plainer 60s-80s names (Helen, Matthew) might come back earlier with the mid century crop.

We need the 20s names to come back first. So names like…

Jean, Joan, Alma, Peggy, Joy, Vera, Dorothy, Freda, Margaret, June, Sylvia, Rita

Eric, Frank, Dennis, Ernest, Leonard, Raymond, Ivor, Edgar, Morris, Arnold, Gilbert

Some of these are already being used but they’re not mainstream yet

@PeaceLurking9to5

Oh they will!

They all do. Can you imagine if 25 years ago someone had told you babies would be being called Elsie, Vera, Alma, Rita etc - they sound like depressed barmaids to me, but people are using them again.

karen is a nice Scandi form of Catherine, Sharon is a distinguished old name, in 2O or 30 years no one having kids will know or care that Karen was an insult for 5 minutes or that Sharon and Tracy were social signifiers

I'd like to meet a baby Edna.

When I was a child in the late 40s/50s these were popular:

William
Michael
Geoffrey
George
Colin
Brian
Barry
Roy

Jean
Margaret
Catherine
Joan
Patricia
Susan
Pamela
Barbara
Janet

I can't imagine a little Roy or Barbara these days.

@Crankley

You have both my daughters on your list! Ages 3 and 10 months.

I was just fed up with all the Emily-Ella-Amelia-Olivia-Isla names. They kind of merge into one, a bit.

My grandma was Edna :)

I think they'll just get more whacky and made up

Or revive old fashioned names with silly spellings

Dayvid
Peetah
Kollyn
Barree
Soozun
Sayrah
Jaine
Maree

I know a Maree- she’s 90!
actually I know a few 90 yr old ladies with very frilly names - Anastasia seems to have been popular 90 yrs ago as well so due a comeback.

I think Ellen is due a revival - think I heard a girl being called that the other day.

Loving those spellings

Barry Is just so meh though however you present it

Oh yes, and names ending in 'da' are going to have a moment. Glenda, Rhoda, Sandra ? I am ready for this!

Agnes
Bridget
Enid
Esther
Irene
Joyce
Sally
Priscilla
Winifred

Bernard
Clarence
Gerald
Hugh
Martin
Ronald
Victor
Vincent
Walter

Theoretically it should be 1920s names, as per the one hundred year rule (i.e. names take around a hundred years to make a revival). But realistically some names don't come back.
www.behindthename.com/top/lists/england-wales-historical/1924

Sharon, Tracey and other 1960s/70s names aren't due for a comeback until the 2060s...

List is interesting

Didn't I say Roy

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My teens just called their new kitten gary

Not a baby, but I do know a very glamorous Edna in her 20s!

Early 90s there were loads of katherines clares and Rebeccas in my secondary school . I work now with lots of clares but I don't know where all the katherines and Rebeccas have gone as I never even meet adults with those names .
Davids Ian's and Richards were the boys in my year but my much younger siblings had loads of Joshuas which at the time seemed very trendy

Colin and Ross seem quite sweet. Sandra is harsh because of the Ra, so I don't think so or Susan not so much. I know a baby Rachel and it seems unusual because every name is so frilly at the moment. Lots of Arabella, Arielia, Isla, Amelia. My DD has a hard ending name rather than a softer a type ending, so it does sound dated.

I think that Edna is a possibility, because similar names have been popular and then people look for different variations to be unique. So Edna is not that far from Edie, or Ava type names.

Edna is bloody awful. I think it's always been seen as a dowdy name. The only Edna I know, who's quite a young and fashionable 70 yr old, told me she has always hated her name and was envious of her sister being called Alison.

DC2 would have been Peter, but she was a girl.

I think the next big thing in names will be surname names.

I would say the surname trend has been here for a while, I'm not keen!

I’ve got my bet on Diana and Juliet being the next Amelie/Ella/Millie