Babynames threads of the 70s - what would they have been like?

[ConFuschias]

Something along the lines of:

I have a Darren and a Karen. Would it be too much to call DC3 Sharon?

Has no-one said Andrew/Andy and David/Dave?

Mine were..

Julie
Tracy
Sharon
Emma
Claire
Joanne
Amanda
Laura
Helen
Nicola
Natalie
Natasha
Susan
Jenny
Sarah
Lisa

Keith
Jason
Mark
Stephen
Daniel
Robert
Sam
Ivan (cool name imo)
Justin
Gavin
Nicholas
Richard
Barry
Gary
Kevin
Michael

My first and middle names are both top five now - but were rather more unusual when I was born in 1977. I was jealous of my sister's middle name - Jane.

I hated my name for years. Now it's gone to the other extreme but I do like it!

DH is Darren though so we don't let the side down entirely.

I was born in 1978 and there only seemed to be 2 names for boys Steven and Paul.

I am a Nicola Jane, (every Nicola I know is Nicola Jane) but I still actually quite like my name...
The most common names back then in the mid 80s were Emma, Sarah, Claire and Joanne. We had a friend called Cheryl - I remember all the mums thinking that was terribly high-brow

having just been to a 20 year school reunion am laughing at this as we were all 1970/1971 babies and had loads of Sarahs, Julies, Karens, Kays, Helens, Nicolas, Claire/Clares, Victorias, Louises, Alisons, Jackies, Leigh, Rachels, - you get the idea! My own name has been mentioned by lots of people and my middle name is Jane so I feel like I'm amongst kindred spirits!

It would definitely have been "Shall I call my son Steve, Dave, Andy, Ian or Graham/Graeme?"

didnt Jason begin its ascent around then?

I thought my name was pretty timeless...

However, it has been mentioned on this thread more than once.

I have obviously been walking around in a complete delusion.

Anyway - there was a boy called George who lived in our street in the eighties and oh how we laughed and laughed!

Remember a certain teacher always calling one girl CHeryl (with a Ch as in church) and not SHeryl as in sh.
Dean seemed a cool name to me as a child!!!!
So too did Claire.
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I went to a pretentious secondary school and remember the music teacher asking a girl whether she pronounced her name 'Share-on' or 'Shah-ron'. Er, no.

There were a few 'Kah-rens' though.

People I know born in the 70's:

Jane
Jaime
Victoria/Vicky
David
Kirsty
Gabriel
Naomi
Keith
Gail

Maggiebehave - yes Trac(e)y is late 50s onwards - from the film 'High Society'. Plus (I think) it's the name of Diana Rigg's Bond girl character in that one film with er, you know, the Bond who was sacked. It's basically the 'Amelie' of the sixties - saw the movie/thought the name was classy/oops so did everybody else...