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Which names do you predict to be the next big thing?

156 replies

Tillysmama · 29/07/2009 23:48

Which names do you predict to be the next big thing?
Those not currently very popular but there'll be loads in a few years?

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lookingroundglass · 29/07/2009 23:57

Cecily
Constance
Jean

Felix
Peter

snice · 29/07/2009 23:58

Monty seems to be appearing mre and more

cheesesarnie · 29/07/2009 23:59

kevin
dave

tracy
tanya

wrongun · 30/07/2009 00:01

Kitty

EachPeachPearMum · 30/07/2009 00:01

ooh Cecily was on our list, but he's a boy!
Yes, I'd say Connie too, and Anna
Isla seems popular.

jellybeans · 30/07/2009 00:04

For boys, definately Arthur and maybe Edward and Ted. For girls, Florence, Iris and Connie.

hmc · 30/07/2009 00:04

Philip
Nigel
Martin
Geoffrey
Simon

etc

  • i.e. names that were popular in the late 60's and 70's...its all cyclical. They will be in vogue again at some point, it is just a matter of when
hisnibster · 30/07/2009 00:32

Don't know if these are already popular, but I'm hearing lots of children called:
Esme, Darcey, Dexter and Toby.
There's a big fashion for names with hyphens around here too.

goodasgold · 30/07/2009 00:41

Sheila and Linda

Brian and Paul

gero · 30/07/2009 11:13

Violet
Velvet
Vivien

HuffwardlyRouge · 30/07/2009 11:14

I think Susan is due a big resurgence in popularity.

Mary too.

Both great names.

teddygirl23 · 30/07/2009 15:40

alice i think could be the number one name very soon.

Fillyjonk · 30/07/2009 15:45

A lot of these names are already quite popular though

Either a name needs to steadily climb up the charts, gaining popularity, until it is decreed too popular, OR something needs to give it a kick into people's consciousness, as happened with Isla (Fisher sp?), Darcy, Alfie etc.

I wonder also about names like Mary, Susan, Jane, Elizabeth etc. They are great names, especially together.

We are def due a resurgence of full names not abbreviations, imo.

MrsMattie · 30/07/2009 19:19

Increasingly obscure old man/lady names.

Previously posh names - Augusta, Octavia and Araminta are being discussed on this board right now.

70s names have got to be due a come back. I've already heard of littler girls called Caroline, Suzanne and Diana. Michelle, Debbie, Wendy are coming any minute, I tell ya...

Sycamoretreeisvile · 30/07/2009 19:28

Coco.

Honestly. It will be.

Nancy66 · 30/07/2009 19:29

Would agree with Violet - becoming very popular and quite a few celebs have used it in the past couple of years. Think it will be the new Ruby

dizzydixies · 30/07/2009 20:24

oh please not hyphens - as a hyphen sufferer

maggievirgo · 30/07/2009 20:29

These names won't be popular but I thnk they are the next 'unusual' names to seem attractive to the urbane urban chic brigade.

Vivien, Sylvie, Margot, Belinda, Donna, Lois, Dulcie (dulcie is the new Esme,Sylvie is the new Sophie).

Bruce, Victor, Donald, Howard, Richie
Bruce is the new Gus
Victor is the new Hector
Richie is the new Archie.

tummytickler · 30/07/2009 21:06

I think the next names to see a rise in popularity (although maybe not top 10)

Penelope, Ophelia, Dorothea, Violet, Rosemary,Josephine, Elsie. Kitty and Florence already very popular in my town i know at least 4 of each

Gilbert, Albert, Raphael, Conrad, Bruno.

I am sad to see my 8 year olds name here (Iris), but hopefully she will be a teenager by the time it is massively popular.
I worry about Jean and Hilda. If i love them then the chances are that others do too and when my lo goes to school she will be in a class of 5 Hildas!
I am OK with boys i think - nobody ever likes my boys names!

wilkos · 30/07/2009 21:09

NO! NOT SYLVIE!!

my unborn dc 2 will be sylvie because i have never heard of another one!

dc 1 is lily, which 50 billion other little girls are called. didnt want to make the same mistake.

wilkos · 30/07/2009 21:11

obv. will not be sylvie if dc 2 is a boy. ahem..

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Botbot · 30/07/2009 21:16

I think Mary, Susan, Jane too. Possible dd2 will be Mary, I think. (dd1 has quite an unusual name)

hester · 30/07/2009 21:32

Um, wilkos, I know a baby Sylvie...

NotanOtter · 30/07/2009 21:34

i know a Sylvie