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 really wanted to be called Karen or Jackie when I was little.

I expect my grandchildren to be called Brenda and Dwayne.

eh madameplaytypus? Brenda and Dwayne hardly go together. Maybe your little Brenda will go on to have a Dwayne when you are very old and deaf and you will constantly annoy her by referring to him as either Wayne or Damien.

Thats the point bozza - I expect my children will neither know nor care whether Brenda and Dwayne would have been an odd combination in 2008. They will just say they have a nice ring to them.

Oh MadameP, I wanted to be called Marie, cos of marie osmond you see

Lordy.
Barbara, Brenda.
I don't think I like "B" names.

Ooh, I had a Great Aunt Barbara, and my maternal grandmother was Brenda.

Both horrible names, I agree.

Oh, oh, my Grandma was called Hilda Beatrice, beat that!

barbara patron saint of coalminers

Hilda is horrid, I agree - but Beatrice is beautiful

there's a Beata at dd1's school, lovely name

tortoiseshell, shirley was anne's maiden name....

Maybe there'll be a thing for 'historical' names? maybe from the 60s? so, e.g., Jimi, Lyndon, Harold, Barbarella (aha, gets round the Barbara thing), Enoch, Edward...I do know a Linden I think - actually a great name for a girl.

oh, of course it was, stupid of me! Too obvious for me to notice I think!

Belinda
Angela

(My favourite girls' names when I was 5)

BTW, when I was 15 (1986) my favourite girls' names were Jessica and Emily. I know this because I wrote them down in the back of my diary as future names for dds. Aren't they the two most popular names now?

DD has none of these names

Beryl, Doreen, Noreen, Ida, Edna, Valerie, Wilma.

Nigel, Trevor, Barry, Harold, Herbert, Percy.

Gladys, Gertrude, Valerie, Deirdre, Ethel, Enid, Ena, Ivy, Una, Judith, Olive

Trevor, Roy, Raymond, Cecil, Herbert, Keith, Archibald