which names would you like to see more frequently on newborns?

[BigBreastedPheasant]

I will start with Gary.

Primary school teacher here, you'd be amazed about how many of these types of names we are getting now (especially the boys)
In the last few years of the top of my head we've had
Brian
Lots of David and Michael
John
Graham
Martin
Simon
Phillip
Frank
Peter

No Gary yet but it's only a matter of time...

Trudy
Verity
Edith
Cordelia
Claudia

You never see a Roy these days, or Susan.

I always liked Lindsay but I didn't have any girls. You never hear of a baby Lindsay.

Diana
Josephine

You don't hear of many of these:

Jason
Manfred
Gareth
Lionel
Chesney
Giles
Clive

Doreen
Gillian
Tanya
Kerry

Names I'd like to see:

Alicia
Josephine
Marianne

David
Gus
Lee
Darren

I like Ray and Joy. I do know a little Joy but it would be nice to have more!

Elaine

Pauline
Tony

Elaine
Caroline
Sheila
Sharon

All sound beautiful when you say them.

I'm a never ending story fan and would love to meet a little Atreyu one day...not happened yet though.

I knew a baby Spike a few years ago and I thought that was the cutest name ever.

I'm a fan of traditional classics so would be happy to see names like Matthew, Peter, Nicholas, Jonathan, Christopher, Rebecca and Catherine make it back into the top 100.

For those mentioning David, it's actually by far the most most popular name at my (large) primary school. I know at least 8 under the age of 10! But I work in a very multi cultural community, and although it has fallen in popularity a lot over the years with white British families, it's still incredibly popular among many Eastern European and African communities. Adam and Daniel are two others which seem to have massive international appeal and we currently have quite a few of those too.

Shirley
Angela

Colin
Gregory
Guy

Peter, John, Christopher, Louisa, Juliet, Ellen

Claire, Susie, Louisa, Mary, Jane, Jennifer, Wendy

Philip, Michael, John, Nicholas, Christopher, Peter

My baby’s name is Matthew and I don’t really hear that used on children very often anymore. I don’t know why because I think it’s a lovely name.

Matthew is lovely :)

For girls, anything that’s stronger and more substantial, and less frilly/cutesy/twee than most of the current crop of popular names. At the moment it feels like most parents of girls are terrified of vowels!

Lots of underused Shakespearean names also deserve a revival imo:
Miranda
Marina
Rosalind
Helena
Celia
Juliet (think this one’s already making a comeback)

For boys, lots of the New Testament names already mentioned (Simon, Peter, Christopher, Matthew) plus some of the Old English and medieval names: Edmund, Edgar, Ambrose etc.

More Scandi/Nordic style names for both sexes: Frida, Thora, Asta, Magnus, Gustav, Stellan, Soren.

I'm surprised there aren't more babies called Joyce. It would also make a nice middle name.

Ondine, Cecily, Sabine, Phoebe, Aude, Sidonie, Rosalba, Marina.

Tancred, Geoffrey, Norbert, Julius.

Jane

Melissa

Jean
Florence
Rebecca
Katharine
Matthew
Robert

Keith
Seriously though Edward,
Fiona
Michelle
Alison

Dick, Fanny and Gaylord