Names never to return?

Or Gertrude.

Doubt Phyllis will come back

My first name is my Grt Grans surname , and that is a rare one too , I have only ever spoken to one other person with that surname I have spent nearly 80 years convincing people that it is a name , only in Japan no one ever queried it !My GD s have it as second names and I hope it never surfaces as a first name !

Do any of you know of anyone called Vina, (rhymes with Nina)?

I think it's always been around in Ireland, dj so maybe your acquaintance has Irish roots? It can be found with the Gaelic spelling over there (can't remember it but starts with a C and has an M somewhere)

I know a Kevin who is older than me. It still surprises me, as I didn't think the name was about until my sons era.

I don't imagine my grandfather's name will ever be fashionable. He rejoiced in the name Methusaleh!

He was known as Meth to his friends and when I was a child I always thought his name was Methylated as in the spirit.

Lottie and Maisie are both quite popular current baby names.

Thinking about it, wasn't William the Conq's son called William Rufus?So maybe not an Irish name.Maybe a common name for anyone with red hair.

Shirley, Valerie, Margaret, Jennifer, Maisie, Anne, Christine, Jill, Sally and so on

Btw I have a daughter called Lottie but only within the family

As others say, names only just out of favour (40's and 50's ) will take a while to come back again, while late Victorian names are now fashionable again.
German names like Frederick and Hilda ( my grandparents) vanished pretty much from 1914 onwards , understandably,but when they were born in the 1890's, were the epitome of fashion.
I remember reading Alan Bennett on this subject of names ( years ago) imagining the matron of a nursing home saying to a new patient 'welcome! You're our very first Kevin!'
So, it's really hard to say what name will never come back, my great grandfather was called Rufus (he was Irish) now, will that name ever come back, or is it an Irish name that has never gone away in Eire?

mrswoo, I most certainly have not had my day!! ???

I love all the old names, but the girls I went to school with would have old fashioned sounding names now: Janet, Marjorie, Patricia, Joan, Georgina, Aileen, Dorothy, Penelope, Caroline and Carolyn.

I had a cat called Lottie and the other was tanith

My dogs are named Lottie and HoneysuckleRose - Hun for short , doubt there will be babies with these names ?

Barbara is another not used nowadays..

Have you noticed that most of the names mentioned here are popular with pets nowadays? I met a canine Ernie only this morning, and I already know several Colins, a Baxter and an Archie. Of course there are also Monty Don's Nigel and Lily.
I do know a human baby called Monty too.

When I was about to go on maternity leave, I was talking about baby names with my boss and he said sometimes you need to see the baby before making the final decision on the name. He said when their second son was born, they looked at him and decided that he was definitely a Nigel .

I haven't heard Eileen or Irene for years.
My parents bought their house from a woman called Hepzibah. There are lots of old fashioned names around here, George, Joseph, Stanley, Archie and quite a few Mollies and Maisies and even an Audrey.

My grandad was called Ethelred. Nickname Et. Never heard of anyone else called this.

Gareth Malone's little boy is called Gilbert and I have a close relative also with that name.

Apparently my father wanted me called Morag but mother over-ruled him. I can only recall hearing of one Morag and she was older than me. Perhaps it's more common in Scotland?

Lots of Lily's around here too and also a Penny. There is also a teenage boy, who lives nearby, who's called Derek so although not a baby, certainly young. Don't think I can imagine a Gilbert re emerging but you never know.

Fortunatel spanking most emphatic has also gone out of favour.

en.wikisource.org/wiki/There_Was_a_Little_Girl

Longfellow, Absent.
Who would have thought it. I remember it from my girl's anthology as a child. Learnt it by heart, but never realised it was Longfellow.

Ah, but Maggie's back, trisher . And Meg. I do agree with you on Margaret - it was old-fashioned when I was lumbered with it.