So we've got all the Archies and Alfies and Freddies and Lilys and Elsies, what's next then?

[cadelaide]

I guess it'll be June, Marlene, Queenie, Malcolm, Alan, Patricia.......

...and we'll love them and think they're sooooo cute.

I think Bertha was Anne's mother's name, and Walter her father's, Cuthbert was obviously from Marilla and Matthew's surname. James is after the lighthouse keeper, not sure where Shirley came from, Anne and Diana are obvious though.

have only read op....
but feel surely norman and edna must be due for revival?!

edna.

crikey.

I quite like Cuthbert.

Fortunately I don't intend to have any more babies

See everyone says we are using our grandparents names but my Grandma was Edna. I think the names we have used in my generation of my family are more like greatgrandparents names.

Winnifred
Gilbert
Elaine
Brian
Howard
Derek

depends how old you are bozza!
The Alfies and Archies are my gp sort of names, the joyces and marjories are more my parents'.

I really like Gilbert, btw

what about the sharons and traceys? and shauns and stevens?

April
Lynne
Gillian
Marie
Kathleen
Shona
Maureen
Marion
Lindsay
Sandra
Jacqueline
Joanna

Gary
Sim on
Andrew
Nigel
Trevor
Philip
Martin
Paul

sharon tracey shaun steven.....they're all my age

Fanny and Adolf. Both surely due a resurgence..

A Fanny (2000) in our French family too, I'm afraid...

Well my Grandma was born in 1916 so I am not that young... All these sort of names mentioned on here until we got to the Sharons and Tracys are my parents generation.

My great grandmothers though were Elizabeth, Eliza, Lilian and Sarah. But then again lots of Sarahs born in the 70s.

If my children are going to use great grandparents' names they have a choice of Jesse, Muriel, Ada, Cecil, Gladys, Frank and a pair I don't know.

They could be all the rage in 20-30 years time. Although it seems unlikely from here.

I think mine are quite reasonable. The men are also reasonably current names - Harry, George, Andrew and Arthur

Actually my colleague's son is called Gerald and he's 2.

I know a Frank. He's nearly 8.

Imagine a tiny little newborn baby, all squishy and pink, ooh she's so pretty, what's her name then?

Barbara.

Oh.

Raymond
Keith
Gerald
Neville
Graham/Graeme
Vincent
Malcolm
Nigel
Colin
Barry
Terence/Terry

Maureen
Patricia (and people will come on MN asking if they can put "Trish" on a birth certificate, because it's so cute, and they have no intention of ever calling their little bundle of joy Patricia)
Margaret

Raymond
Keith
Gerald
Neville
Graham/Graeme
Vincent
Malcolm
Nigel
Colin
Barry
Terence/Terry

Maureen
Patricia (and people will come on MN asking if they can put "Trish" on a birth certificate, because it's so cute, and they have no intention of ever calling their little bundle of joy Patricia)
Margaret

I was at school with a very chic Audrey who must now be in her late 30s

It's deffo on the cusp

I quite fancied Philippa when pg, iyswim

i know a raymond

DS is 16 - his friend's include Simon, Colin, Keith and Gary. DD2 is 11, and knows a Darren, Alison and Gillian. (DD1 is 14 and has a friend called Enid!). While most of Ireland was calling children Chloe and Jack, or Caoimhe and Padraig, Cork took itself into a timeslip!

Well as u can probably tell by my nik, my son is called Sid and we didn't stop there his full name is Sid Alfie Jon - we think it's cute and it does suit him.

Barbara, Joan, Stanley

there's a stanley in dd2's class
and it was my grandad's name