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

Who gives a flying fuck if anyone thinks your child's name is going to become "rancid". Horses for Courses and all that. We all have different taste and you will always have trends, what does it matter?

DD1's first name has been mentioned on this thread (Grace) and DD2's middle name has (Rose). Whoever mentioned them, please tell me your DC's names and I will decide whether they are deemed "rancid" or not.

What a fucking pathetic thread.

Maybe it takes a few years to filter through, or having somebody very popular and famous with the same name counteracts it, al la Victoria Beckham?

I wonder what a different life I'd have had if my mum got to name me Christina?

I think everybody goes through a stage of wishing they had a different name, I found being "Emma" was boring, my sisters are Laura and Faye - Laura found it boring, Faye found it annoying that nobody could spell it. But now, I couldn't imagine being anything other than Emma. My sisters couldn't imagine being anything other than their names. And if my DD hates being Evelyn for a while, I'm sure that at some point, she will like it!

Yes I am LT and in my opinion you're justification that this thread isn't meant to upset/offend anyone is utter hollyhocks.

dd1's first and middle name has been mentioned, although so far dd2 is safe...

And yes, this will hurt people's feelings.

Sharon is biblical , i think, and quite pretty. It is funny how it suddenly became a name of ridicule. Was it before Viz/Birds of a feather or because of? And if you ask any one to name a Sharon- i bet they will name Sharon Osbourne or Sharon Stone- both well into their 40's /50's thus dispelling the common 70's association.

I, on the other hand have a very 70's name that was royally slated on a thread the other week- but i very rarely meet one in rl, despite going to school with at least half a dozen

Aitch, the thread title was only flippant. I carefully kicked off by saying that I WASN'T saying I didn't like these names, but which names would go off in the manner of Sharon & Tracy in ten years? If people are going to act all wounded because some names theoretically might be groaned about or even laughed about in a decade or two, I think that's a teensy bit oversensitive. I am not going to be held personally responsible just because (who? I dunno. The media? The world at large?) deem a name to be cheesy. I am just wondering why and how it happens. It doesn't make me a toffeenosed, childbaiting Beelzebub.

Top 10 baby names since 1970's here

I actually don't see many that are rancid so don't think popularity has anything to do with it.

this has got to be the funniest thread today, why would anyone give a rats arse what people who you have never met care what they thought!!!
Seriously get real

I have never laughed any anybodies name.
I have, quietly, been surprised at the choise of Trinity, or that newspaper article where the girl was called Tallulah Does The Hula From Hawaii...

Hmm, now I come to think of it I think Sharon is biblical. Sharon of the desert...and there's a Sharon fruit, right?

Look - Princess, Hugh, Pgwithnumber3 - some random strangers apparently think your names may date. Many more probably won't. So what. It isn't an international incident. Stop caring what strangers think about names (or stop looking at the baby names thread as you'll be in for a thin time).

Ahh, that link is for Northern Ireland - never mind, can't be arsed looking for Great Britain.

None taken Lapin

Sharon and Tracy are odd examples aren't thye - I mean, Sharon is actually a rather nice name if heard in isolation (biblical and all the rest). I'd better not slag off Tracy as it's my sister's middle name (I managed to avoid a middle name, thank the lord)

Some names do date - my sister's ex-MIL thought she was being all so unusual by calling her eldest Wayne

did someone make the point that class associations shift? All the more reason to pick a name you like rather than one with a higher social cachet (not than any MNers would do that of course)

LadyThompson, don't patronise me, I don't actually give a SHIT if a random stranger thinks my child's name will date - I know it will date. Every name dates, that is what is hilarious about this thread. We live in eras - names, fashion, cars, houses, they all have a desirability in different times. Flares were in in the 1970's and will come back in every so often, names do the same. Give me a timeless name that won't ever date and I will choose it for DC3. There isn't one.

PGwithnumber3, I wasn't patronising you. But I disagree with you, because some names can keep going for centuries (say, er, Claudia from the days of the Roman Empire), or Anne (constant since the seventeenth century at least) or I mentioned that my Granny was called Alice, which I think has fared well over several decades in comparison to Doris which was also popular when my Granny was born. I mean, Victoria has gone on and on since Queen Victoria; don't know how it did before her. Katherine and variations of that, that has also been a stayer, despite great popularity.

Ladies - calm down, calm down.
They're only names.
(DS1's name hasn't been mentioned so far - unusually )

Can I add that neither mine or my daughter's name have been mentioned so I haven't taken offence to anything except the snobby nature of the OP.

So thanks for the advice LT, but you are talking utter holy hocks again

I think the whole premise of the OP is rather snobbish. I do not care if someone doesn't like my choice of name - it is impossible to please everyone, but I think the use of the word 'rancid' was somewhat misjudged. Perhaps a more carefully worded OP may have averted some hurt feelings.

I'm not going to get into a dialogue with you, Hughjarsss, about whether I am snobby or not because that's silly. However, I am very interested in having a debate about which names which are popular today and which ones might date very badly. Some do, and there seems no particular rhyme and reason to me. It can't just be simple popularity.

Victoria is not a name I hear since the 1980's and neither is Katherine. Alice is not a name that was used much between the 1960's and is only starting to come back now (my mum wanted to call me Alice but my dad wouldn't allow it).
My name is Helen, again a name which is inoffensive and is a very old name but has not been used for a long time. I do think it will have a revival though.

So sorry, I disagree, names do come in and out of fashion.

I want a name that is completely timeless (especially girl's) and that has been in fashion since the early 1900's.

There isn't one. Fashion dictates throughout. So, I could choose the most beautiful name for DC3 but it could be absolutely awful in 10 years.

Grace was number 20 in the charts when I chose it, I only knew of one other. It went up the charts because it is a pretty simple name. I do however hear it a lot and sometimes do regret using it but hindsight is something we are not blessed with.

LOL at "So the duck what!"

If there seems to be no rhyme or reason - how are you making your predictions?

I do think that newly-coined names tend to date quicker than more traditional names, but names go in and out of fashion all the time.

I don't think it is really possible to predict how something will be viewed in the future, at least in the absence of a time machine.

We have threads all the time about which names, previously considered 'rancid' might be coming back into fashion.
Why not the other way round?