Girls names that won’t come back…..

[Rincoe]

Barbara
Gertrude
Muriel
Mildred
Majorie
Eileen
Geraldine

I raise you Immaculata, Attracta, Perpetua.

This was always a nickname for Frances and Francesca.

Jill, Sandra, Carol, Susan, Linda, Jackie, Joanne were all the names I was at school
with. Hard to imagine them becoming popular again.

Sounds like a reception class in 1968 - add in Tonia, Sonya, AnneMarie, Anette, Angela and Michelle.

Ditto. I think Margaret will become less unpopular, if not very popular. Mrs Thatcher dealt it a death blow but those of us who lived through her years as PM are getting old now. Like Myra, it's never dropped out of favour as much on the other side of the Atlantic because they don't have the same associations with it.

Interesting that various names derived from Margaret are all doing well - Daisy, Peggy, Margo, Margot, Maggie. Even Marjorie has been mentioned approvingly on this thread. Meg is nice. Maybe there's hope yet for Margarita, Marguerite, Rita and Greta. Possibly not Margie, which was what my Grandma's sisters called her, or Marge, which for me evokes margarine and The Simpsons.

Linda, Christine, Sharon, Tracy, Denise, Susan.

Maybe they’re another generation away. I never thought I’d see baby Ivy, Agnes, Alma and Maud, but they’re all here!

Nora is really popular.

As I said earlier in the thread - Freda is making a return with a Scandi vibe - Frida.

😂

I’m not sure Sonya and Tonia belong in that list. They’ve never really been popular in the UK, have they?

I knew an Agnes, she didn't like her name so she spelt it backwards and became Senga!

I’m a Nicola Louise and I’ve hated my names forever. There are just so many of us that it’s not even outing to post this 😂 I was desperate to be called something more exotic when I was a child….. I really wanted to be called Liesl as I loved the Sound of music!

My middle daughter was nearly Agnes and she's 34 now! A few years ago I would have taken bets on Ada never coming back and yet - here it is on every second girl. I think Brenda might be a hard sell, but given my track record, who knows?

Fanny being short for Frances which I think is a lovely name, but sadly Fanny has other conotations.

I can see these coming back soon:

Hilda - similar in sound to Tilda / Matilda
Irene - similar to Iris and Ivy
Vera
Alma
Enid - similar to Edith and Edie
Celia
Sylvia
Freda - especially with the Frida spelling
Joan and Jean - particularly as Joanie and Jeanie
Gloria
Esther
June
Gwen
Jane - Janie

I already know girls called Alma, Celia, Frida, Joni, Janie, Gwen, Gloria and Esther

I know a 12yo Ursula.

Agnes to me has always been a very old lady name. A neighbour who seemed 150 when I was a child was called Agnes so I’ve always associated it with being very old. Her sister was called Mary, but I didn’t see it in the same way for some reason. I’ve got more used to people using it now, seems quite a middle class choice today.

I can’t see Janet or Janice making a come back.

My friend called his daughter Lettice and I pronounced it Let - tice and was corrected by him, apparently it is pronounced same as the vegetable.

I hope those posting these lists of names that will never come back live to be eighty . They'll see how wrong they were!

I went through a stage in my late teens/early 20s of loving the name because I was obsessed with D H Lawrences books, The Rainbow and Women in Love. Had I had a baby girl then I’d probably have called her Ursula 🤦‍♀️😯

Sandra
Stacey
Sue

How should it be pronounced?

Always popular in the Irish Catholic community in 60s/70s as it’s a saints name.

I found out I have a gg grandmother called Cinderella, I didn't know it was ever used outside the fairy tale.

I do think Agnes / Aggie is an ugly name but seen a few girls called by Spanish version Inés which I think is pretty

I think I’m wrong about how to pronounce Lettice! I like how I pronounce it, but it’s obviously wrong.