Girls names that won’t come back…..

[Rincoe]

Barbara
Gertrude
Muriel
Mildred
Majorie
Eileen
Geraldine

Agnes sounds so much better in French, and is more common there than here I think. (Maybe Hamnet will popularise it again?)

Yes I have a great great grandaunt with the same name, Wonder if it's the same person? There can't have been many! She had a brother named Elemington too and a sister, Fanny, which is another name not coming back anytime soon!

Maud
Myrtle
Gladys
Vera

Some.of these names are lovely and I wouldn't mind my DD having them.

Prudence and Fanny though, not so much.

Brenda

Sue.

Surely they all have the potential to come back over time? It's an absolutely classic fashion cycle.

People look for something different to everyone else, other people like it, it becomes more widespread, it becomes common, it becomes totally naff and dated, then when it's been out of use for long enough, it becomes charmingly retro and starts to be "something different". And so it begins again.

Nobody born in 60s or 70s would have predicted names like Agnes and Florence ever having a come back. Those who are appalled at the idea of baby Pauline and baby Sheila will just feel very old when their grandchildren start naming the great-grandkids with the names that were so old-fashioned in their own youth.

I know a 3 year old Winnie, named after her GGM Winifred.

My grandmother’s brother was married to a Tryphena.

We could be related!

Edna
Dulcie
Gertrude
Jean
Sheena

Agnes is a lovely name. I also quite like Agatha because I adore the books of Agatha Christie, but Agnes is a prettier name.

Most of the names written on here are very common in Africa and the Caribbean still because they used English names that were common back colonial times , It's westerners who now view these names as ancient

Sybil will definitely be back, and sooner rather than later I think.

Karen is not going to survive I don’t think, or Sharon and Tracey. Which is a shame as Tracey is actually a great name, it was just too popular

I can’t imagine names like Terry, Colin, Gilbert, Doreen or Mildred ever becoming popular. However a few years ago I would have said the same about Sylvie, Betty, Wilfred and Sydney. Yet these names are all coming back.

Exactly what I came here to say. Unfortunately, Fanny has had her day..:

Amicia
Ernaburga
Hortensia
Horatia
Boudicca
Patience
Swanhilde

Paula
Tracey
Monica
Karen

Fanny

Ernaburga? Who would saddle a girl with a name like that!

Most of the names written on here are very common in Africa and the Caribbean still because they used English names that were common back colonial times , It's westerners who now view these names as ancientj as

I know a baby Phyllis and 2 Philippas under 3.
I think that Karen may be back in 50 years, along with Helen, Lindsay , Sarah, Rachel and Beverley.

Joan, Agnes, Peggy and Mildred very popular in east London

We have a few students called Agnes. Beautiful name.

Grizelda

I'm a child of the 70s. My class mates were:
Alison
Tracy
Julie
Sharon
Sally
Rachael

Don't see many of those around anymore.