Names in fashion

Sixties names Debbie, Deborah, Karen, these haven't come back as yet

I'm an under 60 (56) Patricia. I was at school in the 60s and 70s and we had lots of Gillians, Karens,Janices,Janet's etc. I read an article several years ago that said we were coming up to an time where people couldn't lie about their ages as a lot of names were specific to a certain few years i.e. Charlene and Kylie. My nephews partner is 25 and called Christine which is unusual as it tends to be an older females name. My niece is Rachel as it's a family name but she was named at a time when there were a lot of girls being called Rachel

There were Amy's, Sarah's and Anne's in my family .
These names are still around but not as many as the Poppy's and EllieMay's I seem to hear of.

My grandmothers names were Lily and Eva which have both come around again.

My mum was called Dorothy and to my surprise that name has become fashionable again. My generation were called Pamela, Caroline, Edith, Stephanie, Lorraine, Patricia, Carol, Louise, to name but a few. I can see these names coming back anytime soon.

grannyactivist I think I was in your class too, I don't remember a Travis but we had a Tony otherwise same list. One of my DGS has just told his mother he intends calling his daughter if he ever has one, after my mother, she didn't like her name at all but I am keeping quiet as he is only 14. (the same is mentioned here).

I always wanted to be Nicola

My DD and DSIL announced that they were going to name their first son Gus - about ten years before they had a baby. I admit to being mortified, but now that he is almost 6 years old, I couldn't imagine him being called anything else.

My small grandson's friends are called Archie, Henry and Samuel (NOT Sam, it seems!) Two friends who have had GDs born this summer have both been surprised to hear that the babies were to be called Evelyn. I always thought it such a pretty name with handy variants - Eve, Evie, Lynn etc.
I must have been in the same class as you, wilygran - all those names (except Roma ) and we had two Patricias - another lovely name that seems to have been lost for ever - but who knows?

There were 3 girls called Valerie in my first year at grammar school, 2 called Jane. My name tells everyone that I was born in the 50's. My mum was Molly. Three of my granddaughters have Welsh first names with very English second names. The other two have traditional names. I do think that certain names tell when we were born.

There is a Dennis in my six-year-old GD's class. You don't see that much nowadays. There was one in my class in the 60s.

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!

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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..........

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.

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.

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

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.

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