Names never to return?

Victoria and David Beckham's daughter is called Harper.

My parents had an old family friend called Honour. I think there was an ancient relative called that too, but I've never heard it in recent years.

It's called conversation, this kind of chat

Could you possibly BE more patronising?

I really love the 'virtue' names. Our eldest daughter has the middle name Faith. My name is a virtue too but not the prettiest by a long chalk!

My stepfather`s first name was Wilson, his surname was Charles. When I started grammar school, and the form teacher was getting all our details down, it took me AGES to convince her (I thought) that his name wasn`t Charles Wilson. She kept patiently trying to tell me that she required his Christian name first, and when we got the forms to take home for parents to sign as correct, she`d put him down as, yes, Charles Wilson.

I had an aunt called Mafeking because she was born on the day of the relief of Mafeking. My mother was Evelyn and sister Winifred.

My DD1 was Horace in utero.

I had great, great aunts called Faith, Hope, Charity and Prudence, Kitty. One of those?

How about Chastity? oh silly me!!!

Sonny and Cher had a little girl they named Chastity. She`s now a very butch young man known as Chaz!

That kind of name is a hostage to fortune!

I don't know if this is usual but both my Scottish grandsons have their other Grannys maiden name as their second Christian name. Their cousins on that side of the family (girls) have it as well.

That is common in Scotland, grandma60. My middle name is my maternal GM's maiden name and my sister has paternal GM's maiden name.

I hope the name Mildred doesn't make a comeback. (Apologies to any Mildreds on here!)

Apology accepted lizzypop

My grandma was called Gertrude too - Gert or Gertie for short. It's not a name I like but some people who fancy themselves as trend-setters pick old-fashioned names. I wouldn't bet on any names disappearing altogether.

I have a DGD called Connie Rose and a DGS called Stanley . The other 2 are Phoebe Mae and Elliott

Hsve we mentioned Sybil?

Have been pondering on this name that will never make a comeback thing, and of course most names will do given time, but surely not Wilburforce or Herbert or Percival. Still, in a few hundred years, why not?

My mum was Edna May , never met another younger Edna and my mum always hated her name.

Water meadow - is Marilyn a made up name? My 1940s school friend Marilyn was the first I'd met of that name, she was Scottish. Isn't Debra just an alternative spelling of the Biblical Deborah?
DJ and Penstemmon - we also have a baby Connie in the family, and a little Grace Lily, and baby Effie.

My mum was Edna May too, middleagespread . She was the only one of 9 siblings with a middle name, given that honour because she was born on May 1st.

My dad, who was an only child, had over forty cousins who shared his surname: John Brown (pseud), Fred Brown, Arthur Brown, etc. One of these cousins was given a middle name because there were already so many with his first name, and he was always called by his first and middle names, John Henry. It took my dad years to work out that this person with the Henry was also a Brown! #childhoodmysteries

My Nephew is John, his Father is John as is both of his Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers, he has a half brother called john and two Uncles called John. His Son is not called john

When I transcribe records for a county here I came across Appleonia, this was 19th century when most girls were Mary,Elizabeth,Catherine and Ellen , never came across it again

There was a Saint Apollonia anniebach.....perhaps she was named for her.