Which names do you predict will go rancid in a few years, like Sharon and Tracy did?

[LadyThompson]

I am not saying I don't like these names...but some names get too popular and then they start to smell a bit and seem naff

For girls:

Jade
Ruby? It's the second most popular girl naem nowadays
Aimee
Anything-Mae

For boys:

Rhys
Jayden
Logan

Think Xanthe is pronounced 'zanthee'?

zan-tha is the closest I can get to writing how you'd say it.

can't think of any U names though (well, Ursula, but I wouldn't call it nice IMO)

my mum says that Peggy is a version of Margaret?? How was that worked out then???
On that note i have to go now, things to do. Cant let DH think i was on mumsnet all day can I LOL Byeeee til later xx

LOL - I have never seen my dds names so many times in one thread, one post even mentioned dd1s first and middle in same sentence.

Well, so much for cool and original.

BUT I have moved to Canada where NOONE is called these names and in a FLASH I am cool and original.

Have always heard Xanthe pron. Zan-thee.

Ds's name is Welsh, which suits our family, spelt the English way to make his life simpler given we live in England. It's really not very common (in terms of how many there are) in our neck of the woods at all but it is a name everyone knows, just not as a first name in England.

So it surprised me just how many people have difficulty with it, calling him by vaguely similar but different names.

But what I didn't realise was it is very popular in the US. No idea why or whether it's naff or good over there.

Ooh, I can claim the winning ticket for coming up with Lisa and Debra. "Scott, Greg, Matthew, Debra and Lisa were the big names when I was at school." But I've just discovered in a recent post that my name now marks me as 15-22, and sadly, that is a long way from the truth. Not too many with my name about, but those with the shortened version of my name (KiwiKat, there's a clue) tend to be seen in the UK as a bit slapperish, possibly due to East Enders. Not so Down Under, I'd like to point out.

Lisa is still seen as an attractive name in Italy [preens] I shall have to move there

Ahhhh this is the thread the twinkleticker/hon brigade are bleating about then

Meg is a derivative of Margaret,Peg rhymes with Meg.
My name is quite 60s,for years the only people I met were people the same age as me,however recently I have et a few small children with the same name as me so i think it is undergoing a revival.My brother is called Julian and there are none of those around!

Please tell me, Mrs Fluffle, people are actually so unutterably feeble that they have started up another thread complaining about this one?? Where is it? [rolls up sleeves]

what is the twinkleticker/hon brigade???????

U names: Ulysses, Unity, Una
I names: Izzy, Isobel, Ingrid, Iris
X names: Xanthie, Xavier, Xander

Note that there also seems to be names that never seem to be very popular but don't really ever seem to degenerate into the dreaded 'chav' category. i think i've mentioned my name is Hilary and i hate it. No one ever uses it for children these days (thank goodness) but I just wondered why!!

Ooh, why do you hate it? I quite like it. Especially when shortened to Hilly.

Yes i do have it shortened to Hilly. My DH says it is just a middle aged women's name so I am gradually growing into it - lol.

Ooh, I really like Hilary. Although that may be the result of reading too many boarding school stories at a tender age... (My mother and her best friend at school were nicknamed Patters and Hillers )

Oooh never had Hillers! i get Hilly from friends and family and my boss calls me Hills which I have to say I don't like and cringe when she says it

Yes Lady T, must be a slow day on there - nothing much of note apart from someone being dumped by Facebook - classy

Here you are: [http://www.netmums.com/coffeehouse/showthread.php?t=195387]

Hilary - I quite like that, maybe it'll have a revival

I think the OP on that other thread is actually on this thread too. How very strange not to make her point on this thread, to the people who she is annoyed at, and to go and bitch behind their backs instead

I've never seen that site before. I've gone a bit blind from the exclamation marks, but I DO feel genuinely bad that the poster thought I was dissing her adopted son's name. She's got it so wrong, though! I wasn't. Ho hum! I've got to say, though, however snippy some of the remarks on this site have been, I think I prefer it to The Other Site....

I still prefer this site, even if dd1's name is deemed rancid

(Lady 'Lisa' Thompson leaves the office for the night, rueful, older, wiser)

I think every single girls name that was on our girl list has apparently 'gone off' ---

a reason to no longer be gutted at the lack of girls in my house!

Eldest DS's name is on a slow delicne to being boring for being so popular

Wow is this thread still going? Hasnt it lost its thread........