Names never to return?

I have a Maisie and an Alfie in the family, both just 10. There is also a little Lily May.

Yes Bellanonna, Mabel is back. Names seem to skip a generation then emerge again. My mum was Dorothy. I didn't think it would come back but there's a Dorothy (Dottie) in Emmerdale.

Could be Katek, it did puzzle me.

I will forever associate the name Mabel with Wilfred Pickles's 'Have a Go'. The catch phrase,'Give 'em the money, Mabel' is hard to forget.

'With Mabel at the table and Harry Hudson {?} at the piano...'

I've been having fun reading through this thread. Here in Germany there are legal limits on what you can call your child. The trend nowadays (some decades behind the UK, and probably copying the US, where, of course, there is a larger Jewish community) is towards Old Testament names.

Noah, Samuel, Elias (the German form of Elijah), Naomi, Rebecca, Hannah etc.

Names that have become notorious for chav types include my very own Jacqueline and Chantal.

Names that are considered "old-fashioned" here are accepted for children in the UK, such as Emma. My DGD is called Nora. I'm still trying to get used to it.

I think it's good that people are getting adventurous about names - when I was at school we had 4 Lindas in our year and 4 Christines in the year below. All the boys were called John or Stephen. We were only a small school, too! On the German side, one of my DILs's has two Aunt Beate's and the other DIL's mother is called Beate! (Derivation of Beatrice/Beatrix - pronounced Bay-Arter). So a bit of variation is good!

I met 3 people called Edna in one week a couple of years ago!

My paternal grandfather was Albert, my dad Alfred. I have nephews now called Alfie & Bertie (aged 23 & 17)

Rare to hear Peter now.

My mother was Edna Violet. (born 1918). I remember her saying that her brother had wanted her to be called Rosie Violet. She didn't like either of her names so perhaps she would have been better off with Rosie.

My parents had an old family friend called Honour.
There were several of those in DH's family, various spellings, but it seemed to drop out of favour about three generations ago. On one census it was spelt 'Ona', presumably just as the census clerk heard it.

Are you a new Jaima, or the old one with an additional number?
(You sound like the old one...)

I'm the old one

We're all old ones.

Oh!

My mothers name was Megan and she hated it. As an adult she told everyone her name was Ann. Now Megan is very popular. My grandmother's name was Gertrude Annie Florence Maude. Florence seems to be popular now. Although she was known as either Flo, or Florry. I had an aunt who was Gertrude too. I know of two little boys called Hudson and Hendrix and a little girl called Willow.

I think Megan is a lovely name.

We have twin babies here on the island named "Sid and Elsie".
Very old fashioned but very fashionable too apparently!

My grandmother was called Wilhelmina but was known as Menie,pronounced Meanie.Our roots are in the Outer Hebrides and the name was spelt Williamina by previous generations.Iam waiting for it to come back into fashion as I think it is quite pretty.

We used to have a very old family member ( very old, in the 1960's) so born in the 1880's) called Verley.Have just remembered that, and have never heard of anyone else being called it, does this name ring a bell for anyone?She was a very sweet and very deaf old lady, am wondering now if it was a family name / surname.

I had a grandmother named Dorcas. Needless to say the name hasn't been passed down to any of the family. I've enjoyed the chat in this thread too.

I've been wracking my brains to try to remember the name of a lady I used to work with Morethan and you've just reminded me! Dorcas! I thought it was a lovely name, really unusual. So unusual that I forgot it!

There was a character in Larkrise to Candleford called Dorcas morethan and Chewbacca. It's amazing how much more I liked the name as the series went on

Edna C1920, Maurice. C 1915.
What has happened to the David/Daves. Janets, Christines, Joyces, Rosemary!

Names of my/our generations, post WW2 baby boomers tend to be going right out of fashion at present. I think they may come back.
My daughters name is now fairly rare in Britain, but has several variants. But in the late Victorian/Edwardian era it was really in vogue.
There is probably now a particular turn around time on "old" names being recyled. (For anyone who "Can BA"to look them up.)

I worked with a Dorcas and she was younger than me.

My father was Cornelius. Never met another with this name.