Names in fashion

Pamela & Nigel have yet to make a comeback ..as far as I am aware!

Stanley, Arthur and Bill are 3 little boys I come across locally Edie and Mabel are contemporaries of my DGC too.

I am 65 and have an unusual French name which nobody had when I was in school in the 50's and 60's . I have always shortened it because nobody pronounces it right and that annoys me, it is heard a bit more often now but still not common. My. Granddaughters have names that are lovely but everyone calls them by a shortened version and although living in England our side of the family is Welsh so they have Welsh second names which are very traditional in Wales.

My daughters friend called her second child Reggie, my FILs name was Reginald. My MILs name was Lynda but I have a friend a bit younger than me who is also a Lynda with the Y spelling. I have friends called Patricia, Christine, Susan, Lynda, Kim, Cheryl, Alison, Nikki(Nicola), Catherine, Margaret, Gloria, Lyndsey, Ann, Gillian,. Not many of them are used by today's mums .

I left school in 67, and there were lots of Lindas, Christines, and Jeans in my year. You don't hear of any of those names for little ones now.

Personally I don't like a lot of what I think of as 'whiskery old great aunt' names, I.e. the great aunts I knew as a child - Mabel, Edith, etc. Younger parents will not have those connotations. As for the likes of the once fashionable Gertrude and Ethel, I hope they never make a comeback!

My folks gave us all what they considered classic, non-dating names, and they haven't dated. My mother's name was fashionable when she was born in 1918 - it was dated for decades before she died, she always hated it and vowed not to give us anything similar!

I have 3 GD's Isobella, Poppy, and Lottie. I also love the name Grace.

I had 5 aunts ,two were my mothers sisters the other her brothers wives three of the five were called Jean.The others were Mary after Gran and Rose after great gran.I dont think I've met a jean under 60

I was born in 1944 and my name has only been mentioned once on here.
I was at school in the 1950s and all those names previously mentioned of that period I was familiar with.I remember four Carols in my class who were all born around Christmas time there were two Christines who also had Christmas birthdays.
There were two girls called Margaret Rose named after Princess Margaret, a Vivianne after Vivianne Leigh and also a few Sylvias and a Cynthia

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I agree it is a lovely name (and it is a family name) Grannyactivist. It was my maternal grandfathers name and Jordan was the name of my paternal grandfather. When we have done a bit of digging around we have found that both names go back through many generations. So good to see the continuum.

I love the name Cornelius Breda, it was my great, great grandfather's name, but none of my children could be persuaded to consider it for their boys - even as a second name.

I have a granddaughter Isabella Emily Alice (Issy to us) and another Amelia Helena Grace known to us all as Millie. A grandson Sebastian and two others are Seamus and Oscar whilst the eldest grandson is Caven Joseph Edward.

My brothers were Cornelius and Jordan and although I was. Patricia at school I’m known to my family as Breda.

I have a colleague who has two small granddaughters Violet and Ivy.

much younger

gulligrann
I'm Elaine, and I've always disliked it.
I know at least three Elaines and I like it - better than most names from our era anyway.
Presuming you are the same era as me - you could be must younger.

I have a cousin named whose Christian names are Aston Martin.
Gabriella isn't there a cricketer named Jack Russell? (woof)

Gabriella
There was a Gabriella at my school too, in the year below me. She was Greek.

When I was in school - Megan, Bethan, Muriel, Bronny (Bronwen), Carwen, Delyth. Irwyn, and a Maxine , she came from England and we thought it so film studio

Correct Rosina, Austrian automobile entrepreneur Emil Jellinek created the trademark Mercedes in 1902 using his daughter's name.

BTW I can see some of the really traditional, non-dating names - John, David, Elizabeth, etc. - making a comeback soon. Any of those is probably a real rarity in any reception class at the moment, but once a trend starts...

I know young parents don't have the same associations, but to me so many of the old names conjure up withered, whiskery old great aunts! I can't understand the likes of Mabel being popular again, and I think they'll seem very dated in a few decades - the same as e.g. Linda and Christine from my era.
A Granny of mine - born pre 1900 - was Phoebe - she loathed it, and would have been very bemused to find that it's become popular again - largely down to Phoebe in Friends, I expect.

My other was Rose, which doesn't seem to have dated at all.

We had 2 children at school , SX and KC . ( not Essex and Kaycee) definitely just 2 capital letters

Paperbackbutterfly I am so thrilled to hear that your great-niece has been named Brenda (even if only as a second name). I am a 79 year old Brenda, and have never met a namesake who was younger than about 65. According to my parents they couldn't decide on a name, and let my aunt choose for them. I have always felt rather miffed about that!
Talking of strange names, my friend's GD was named Pebbles. Granny was NOT amused!
The oddest name I have come across was an American child called ABCDE, which was, apparently, pronounced 'ab-suh-dee.'

Hugh, Graham, Gregory, Trevor.. not too many of them under 50! Or Vera, Eileen , Joyce, Doreen...

My DGS2 is Stanley,
DGD 2 Connie

You don't hear of many David's now and I think it is a nice name. John is not popular either. My ggrandmother was a Gertrude, terrible name. I have Elizabeth as my second name as my Mum and gran helps when tracing your family tree.

Gabriella
I knew that didn't look right when i posted it, but couldn't work out why. Now I know why: it was tooooo early in the morning.
I'm always in admiration of people who can engage their brains that early.
Note to self: don't post before 10?

I’m a Debbie, there we’re loads of us when I was at school in the 60’s, also Sandra’s and Linda’s- there was a girl named Penelope, how we all envied her!

I can remember a Susan. Oh how I longed for that name. The height if fashion.