Baby name challenge

[seeker]

Just to prove you don't have to go "made-up" to give your child a name that no one else in the school has, I challenge you all to come up with names that are real, proper people names (not the names of geographical features, cars, wines or plants) that nobody on here knows anyone under 10 called.

I'll start.

Barbara, Monica, Sharon, Agnes, Alan, Grant, Trevor, Jeffrey and Malcolm.

Lynn
Jackie
Denise
Jinty
Nicola
Dawn
Donna
Marie
Sally
Janine
Maxine

Christine
Virginia
Sarah
Marilyn
Miriam
Marion
Rachel
Susannah
Gavin
Derek
Peter
Russell

I know a five year old Miriam.
Our best man was Clive, he says his name has caused him no end of grief

Well dd's first and middle names are on this list. And so is the possible name of any future dd

Myrtle
Mildred
Carmel
Assumpta
Concepta
Goretti
Marcella

seeker i know a Monica and ulrika has malcolm

eimear and ethan are my favs - my DD is eimear would have been ethan if boy - not having any more but still love ethan and Deirbhile, pro-nounced "dare-villa". i love naming kids!

ok from OP, Ulrika's new babyt is called Malcolm (prob already been said) oh ytes butterfly has said it

and someone on here has an Alan, I'm srue

and there are stacks of Agnes' about - quite a popular name for a certain breed of upper middle class parent

I know a 3 year old John too

and I know Caroline and Gregory

I LOVE Myrtle and has a nice family connection for me too

know a caroline, an adam and a stephen - all under 5....

bet there are no:-
simon
jennifer
samantha
jason
justin
michael
barry's

out there!

Karen
Angela
Darren
Gary
Craig

Phyllis
Percy
Vera
Lesley
Ursula
Douglas

(grandparents names, plus my step mums thrown in for good measure!)

I know a teenage Betty and a teenage Humphrey

And Lisa is still in the top 100 names (ninety something) so someone is still using it....

frazzled - I know of someone with a baby Keith.
iarel - I know a 2 yr old Eliza.
Also know several Harriets under 10.
Ds will be Duncan, and my thread on here showed that there are some under 10.
NSF - dd is Philippa
Cosmo - know at least 2 young Ethans.

Margaret
gordon
Jeremy
Geoff(rey)

keith
gladys
olive
trevor
peggy
deidre
maud
madge
bert
brenda
doreen

Sacha Baron Cohen/Isla Fisher's daughter is called Olive. Cute, I think.

There is a Samantha AND a Justin in DS1s Reception class (or are they Year 1 now?!).

Also know a teenage Phillipa, a couple of Berties, a toddling Eliza, a baby Betsy and pre-schoolers called Florence, Annie and Cecily.

I know a heap of pre-school aged Pearls. Alright, more like three. There's an Edwin at dd1s nursery, and last year there was a Geoffrey and a Margaret. Two people I know have young Jennifers, and Jennifer supposedly dwindled out from about 1980 onwards after having a boom in the 70s.

I heard somebody in a cafe mention their toddler's name being Graham the other day. That's a name I haven't heard on anyone under 30 in years.

I know at least one of all of these under 10:
Stephen
Jason
Peter
Sarah
Susannah
Philippa
Maud
Duncan
Michael
Jennifer
Miriam
Andr ew
Ronald and Kenneth (though they are American)

I hope you're keeping track seeker, and will provide us with updates and a definitive list at the end .

Got to be good old Sharon and Tracy

Can you imagine having a baby Sharon now?

Tracy used to be vv chic in the 1940s...like when Katharine Hepburn played Tracy Lord (witty heiress) in The Phildelphia Story...

I suppose Sharon was exotic, once. Shame really.

Which names are going to go rancid in the same manner? (Slight hijack of thread here).

I think...Jade

In fact...off to start a thread about it

Oh dear, I have a Philippa and a Susannah - I'm obviously completely out of touch . Also know young Maxine, John, Michael, Kevin and met new baby Eliza the other day. Certainly don't know any Traceys, Sharons or Garys under 10, or Pauls actually and I was at school with hundreds of them!