Names never to return?

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 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)

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

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 !

Doubt Phyllis will come back

Or Gertrude.

Annibach we have a little girl in our family that shares the name of one of your dogs! The flowery one!

Basil, Humphrey, Cyril.. haven't come across any small ones of these.

Aw J52, a lovely name for a little girl , daft for a dog but I was listening to Fats Waller at the time

I had two great uncles, brothers, Horace and Hubert, Horace became Baron Evans physician to the windsors , think Hubert was in the diplomatic service , their fsther was Harry a famous Welsh composer and conductor, ,Henry/Harry a name handed down through the generations , my Dad and a cousin and a g nephew, and a g niece , known as Harry but is a Harriet , a g grandfather, , we are swamped in them , No Horace or Hubert though

I'd never read or heard of another Esmè (mum) untill a year or so ago. It gets spelt Esmae, Esmay or Esmee now.

A French friend of mine was congratulated on giving her baby such a lovely name, on the basis that the name was suitable for a baby and equally suitable for an adult. The child's name? Nelly!

I had an aunt Esme ninathenana and I'd never heard of another either. Plenty of Emma's though! I also add an aunt Daisy which, 50 years ago, we considered very old fashioned, but it's back again and popular with young parents.
When I was at school in the 1950s and 60s, the popular girls names were Carol, Barbara, Hillary and Susan, I wonder how long it will be before they reappear.

It is the names with bad associations that I feel rather sad about, and some seem to survive (possibly because they were already very popular) like Jack and Rose; but others get dropped.

I know 2 Myras who were young when the name hit the headlines. One family, who were a solid, old-fashioned and well established family kept the name, there was never any trouble, but given the size and reputation of the uncles, there wouldn't have been! The other family simply started using the child's middle name - she was pre-school.

I don't know any young Ians, although of course, it's one of those Celtic names that surfaces with other spellings.

my eldest Granddaughter is Esme , youngest is Josephine ,

Maisie is extremely popular, there are at least four in the DGD's school!
One of DD's peer group is an Esme (with an accent, can't do it on here), so in her mid thirties.

anniebach there is an actress called Honeysuckle Weeks, she was in Foyle's War

I knowan Elsie and a Ted who are under 5.

Moira has never been very common and I don't think there are any children with my name now, though I imagine it may come back in fashion eventually.

I was very nearly a Muriel
Apologies to any Gnetters who are Muriel but I would have changed it to Marielle.

Yes, Kevin is an Anglicised Irish name, it is Caoimhín, same root as Caoimhe (we know one of those).

And Caoimhe is pronounced Keeva. We had a woman at work with that name. Always getting misspelt.

Luckygirl Agnes may return but what about Senga
The name of a carer to my late GM. The lady explained it was Agnes spelled backwards!

I had an great uncle Arras.

Lovely interesting thread ab so thanks for starting it, it's an antidote for all the misery threads going on.

I wonder if there are any little Harolds around?