Names in fashion

I have a Ruth, my daughter in law is Ruth and so is her cousin!
Pearl and Beryl?

My 2 year old DGS has friends called, Hugo, Deven, Albie, Archie, Alfie, Zekkie and Arthur.

At school in late 60s, we had 6 Janes in our class, 6 Elizabeth’s in another and 6 Susans in a third class in our year. I was first on our register and Jane Wootton was last. I wonder where my fellow Janes are?!

I have a friend named Ruth who is under forty, but then biblical names do seem to recur.

I remember the names of some of the girls in my class:
Christine
Pauline
Joy
Janet
Margaret
Linda
Barbara
Jacqueline
Jennifer
Vivian
Carol
Sandra
Gillian

Boys were:
Travis
Jeffrey
Geoffery
Ian
Harold
David
Stephen
John
Michael
Christopher
Andrew
David
Philip

My GS rugby team has an Arthur, a Digby, and a Harold. They all come back !

Raymond, Christopher, Barry, Brian and Martin are not used much now either.

I have always detested my name. I hope it never makes a return....

My nephew called their little girl Dorothy Brenda. She is 3

I work in n a nursey just had new intake donavann Thomas and jack new favourite. Girls more flowery names elie rose sienna rose etc will watch for Barbara and. Carols and Pauline's!

I think the Patricia’s, Pauline’s, Sheila’s etc will be back with the next generation. My Grandmother and her ssisters were born in the 1890’s and were the Emma, Charlotte etc brigade, then my mother’s generation were the Edithand Ethel’s, then it was my lot, so many Patricia’s in my class it was a nightmare, and so the fashions repeat themselves!

My granddaughter is called mairéad Susan Janet, but everyone calls her Maggie-Sue! Actually I just call her Mags!! Margaret was her dad and grandads mum, Susan is her Nan, Janet after her great grandmother..

My youngest grand-daughter is called Norah (after the singer Norah Jones, I believe). And a distant relative's grand-daughter is Persephone.

Grannyactivist's list is almost the same as the one I would have given for my first year at secondary school. We also had a Lynette and a Pamela.

I'm a Margaret but the only other Margarets I know are either the same age or older than me

Off-topic somewhat, but we even know dogs with old-fashioned names: George, Arthur and Rodney.
My primary school class was full of Pats, Jills and Janes plus several Stephens, Johns and Michaels .

I’d be surprised if you haven’t come across any derivatives of Margaret though, margie303. I know of little Maggies, Megs, Margots and a Peggy (my favourite!). And a whole field full of Daisys.

Half the ladies of my generation seem to be called Susan. Often we have to be differentiated by nicknames.

My mother calls the great grandchildren by transmuted names anyway. She can never quite remember them, So Rex becomes Reg, and Leia Lella. I certainly remember a great aunt Lella. not sure what it was short for. Eveline was a likely name if my last grandchild had been a girl - sounds old fashioned to me, but obviously back in vogue.

Not hugely on topic but I will never forget a course I was on a few years ago. The social worker speaking there told us someone had named their baby girl Clamidia. (I know thats not the correct spelling but this is how they wanted it) The parents said it was a pretty name and I agree to a point! However..........

I just looked up my name. It has Germanic roots meaning 'caperble with a spear'

I’m a 50s Susan and the name was the most common when I was at school. There always seemed to be at least 3 in my class. Even now I always have to specify which Sue I am when phoning the office for example. I do feel it marks me out as a sixty-something lady. However, I do have a teenage granddaughter called Susan, but she lives in Germany where maybe it doesn’t seem so unusual. Some of my grandchildren do have what we used to think of as old people’s names- Arthur, George and Lucy spring to mind. There always used to be plenty of Christines and Patricias at school in the sixties too...

I don't think my mother's names Millicent Agnes will come back although Milly is common now and I suppose there could be Aggie. My father's name was Roland - haven't heard that lately. My parents were going to call me Rowena be a use of the Ro element but decided on Julie. However the doctor suggested adding the T and I have to say I like my name....not one that seems to be in or out of fashion. My son's name is just plain Sam and I added Rowan as the middle name (the Ro element again) but I didn't realise at the time that it's a girl's name too so he's not too impressed that both his names could be feminine...but I think I'm forgiven and he's definitely masculine!

There were five Patricias in my reception class in 1953. I never came upon any in my years of teaching, and know of none in my DGC's circles.

My great niece is called Elowyn, it’s a Cornish name apparently. My mother’s name wasSusannah my gm was Susan Hannah.

Friends and family have young children called
Fred, Archie, Edward, Joseph, George,Joshua, Thomas, James, Toby, Eleanor, Ella, Molly and Audrey.
When I was at school we had a Phyllis, Doris, Pamela, Norma, Brenda, Alma and lots of Annes and Elizabeths. Boys were nearly all John, Peter, Alan, Michael and Stephen but one year we got a new boy and he was called Eugene and he was American.

Sheila, Jean, Janet, Norma, Linda, Elspeth, Elaine, Shona, Janice, Marie, Heather, Hazel, Helen, Valerie, Pamela, Anne, Angela & Frances were amongst my classmates, as were Alma & Roma. I always wanted to be called Lynette - I thought it was so exotic & stylish!