Girls names that won’t come back…..

[Rincoe]

Barbara
Gertrude
Muriel
Mildred
Majorie
Eileen
Geraldine

Met a Peggy the other day, she was 6

My GG left the instruction to the family that no one was allowed to call their babies after her - her name was Hilda. So far no one has!

My GG will haunt anyone who uses Hilda 🤣

That is my middle name. Always hated it!

I have to remind myself that not everyone is a name nerd, because how can anyone think that Mabel and Agnes are not popular? 😁

Lots of the names in this thread are way more popular than people seem to think.

I don’t think you can ever say a name won’t come back.
Lots of currently fashionable names were considered truly awful when I was a child.
Names such as Arthur, Wilfred, Olive & Nora to name just a few. Absolutely dreadful not so long ago. Now parents are happily calling their babies these names.

Beulah
Una
Minnie
Susan
Thelma
Wilma

Missing no, I think.

Lol yes same. I live next door to a baby Mabel.

Enid
Gladys
Agnes
Bertha

I know a Hilda. Just a kid who comes in our shop - I thought it was a terrible choice but she's now 3 and I love it as she's such a lovely little girl.
There's a couple of Agnes here too

Edith
Margaret

Matilda's had a comeback from 200th in 1996 to the top 10 if I'm reading this chart 📉 right

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/livebirths/articles/babynamesexplorer/2019-06-07

Now a preponderance of Willows. Which hits different after watching the Wicker Man the other night 🙀

I have late primary and middle secondary kids. some of the names said here are used - rarely but still being used and to be honest they are better than bloody Neveah (also because the one I knew of was a bully)

I know from baby to mid-teen:

Edwina
Gladys
Doris
Barbara
Camilla

I’d forgotten Neveah. Has it died a death? How old are the Neveahs now?

Who knew there were so many Tryphenas in the world?
I have an aunt Joyce. She's 75.

Most of these will become fashionable again..possibly not Sheila because of the Australian use

The Nevaeh's are all in high school.

Brenda!

Edith was definitely in resurgence when my eldest was a baby. Enid as well.

I know an Ethel. She's 7.

I mean Mabel is one of THE most popular names of last few years. There’s been at least 5,312 born since 2019, and we only have data up to 2024, so there will be even more by now.

I think Edith is a beautiful, elegant name. And I think Enid couldn't be uglier. It's funny how there is so little difference in the two names and yet they sound completely different to my ear.

Sharon
Tracey

Haven't heard of a Lindsey or Lorraine since primary school......

Taking a punt that Ghislaine will be even more off the cards than it ever was.

Parked in the same section of the baby names book as Adolf for a while I suspect.

Whereas I'd class them together as broadly similar in vibe. Enid is probably more towards the 'ugly chic' end of the vibe, along with Maud, Mabel, Ursula, Nell.

I know what you mean, though. I'm always a bit taken aback to see posters on here saying Maeve is frumpy because it reminds them of Mavis -- to an Irish person, they couldn't be more different, but I suppose it's understandable that they would code similarly to a foreigner.