Are there any names that you don't understand why they aren't more popular?

[TheNameNerd]

Which names do you think deserve more love?

I know it's very much a marmite name but I love Ambrose.

What names do you think should be used more often?

(I have insomnia!)

How old is the Twyla you know? I’d never heard of it until Schitt’s Creek.

Clement/Clementine
Robert. I hear Bobby a lot but not Robert. Where are all the Roberts these days?
Ezra
Francis (like my Grandad)/Frances

Wenceslas 🙃

Disagree on this one. Twyla is awful.

Maria.

Walter and Cuthbert. I know the Beano did them no favours, but I like them. Zebedee and Dylan, yes Magic Roundabout, but I think they're good names. Torin, Cole, Samson, Edwin.

Belinda, it would make a change from Bella and Isabella. Stephanie, Penny, Natalia, Melissa, Gemma, Faith, Rebecca.

Caroline
Colette
Louise
Adam

That's what put me off the name. Otherwise, I think it's lovely.

I think that's the point, people your childrens' age are having children now, so don't want to call them what were popular names in the late 80s/early 90s

They were popular and now they are having a rest. Names go in cycles. Usually the names in the births column are very similar to those in the death notices.

The name I most wish would take a test is Finn.

You don't know what is popular until you have a baby and mix with others or have contact with a school.

Linda, Yvonne, Glenda, Sheila, Janet, Janette, Jean. All the names that were popular when I was young.

I know several Marinas, from young children to teens to adults. Not rare at all.

Sheila. I really like this.

Re Claudia meaning lame. Yet Amelia means without a limb and is vv popular, or was a few years ago. So I don’t think it’s purely a meaning thing. I love them both.

I've always loved Ethel. It has a lovely soft sound but hasn't managed to shake off its "old lady" image like other names have.

I think many of these names look better written down than sounded out. If you could listen just to the sound, dissociated from the spelling, innocuous names like Henry, Ezra, Ethel etc sound quite strange (nasal).

Well Ambrose has the association with Ambrose Bierce - wrote dark stories and disappeared!
@caitlinrose Viola - I can never remember how to pronounce it - which is the name, and which the instrument? I think that's why people go for Violet.
@midsomermurderess I can understand Emil not being popular in the UK, to me it would be like naming my son Jean-Paul - I'd be afraid people would think I was putting on airs! Plus Emil and the Detectives, just very specific.

Robert. Good, solid, royal name with lots of nickname options.

I’m always surprised to see Cecily and Juliet so far down the charts as they are spoken of frequently on here.

@Parmesam I thought Clementine was already popular, I know loads.

Ambrose is a great name!

@Bramblejoos , you can look at darkgreener, ONS, do an internet search, ask around, ask on here. You could think about where you heard the name, you could consider why you like it.
I was thinking of names like Jack, Harry, Noah, Olivia, Sophia, Ava, Lily, Ellie and the like, there are so many of them, you'd surely have an inkling that they were popular, wouldn't you?

My name is on that list, and due a comeback.

In my sons school there's quite a lot of the names mentioned on this post.

@SquirrelFan , the instrument is vee-ola, the flower vigh-ola.

Emil makes me think of Emil and the Detectives too. it's probably too close to Emily to be popular, and there's the Em-ill/Em-eel? issue.

Henry?

underused?

John and Mary were popular for centuries, but seem to have almost completely disappeared - no comeback with the other old lady/old gent names. They're fab names, too - I like John much more than its currently ubiquitous variant Jack.

Lucy's also a lovely name that seems to have disappeared. And yes to Amanda - classic and vowel-heavy like lots of current names, but seemingly gone - possibly because of people not liking Mandy?

Emil, unlike Emily, doesn't really translate to English pronunciation-wise. It's supposed to have a longish E at the beginning (Eh-mil) and that doesn't really work in English.

I also don't really understand why names like Julia, Fiona, Victoria and Rebecca have gone so out of fashion.

Lisa's another one. Fits right into the current vibe but has just gone.