Good names nobody uses any more ?

[CanAm]

I've only ever known one Gladys, a mature lady I worked with many years ago. Though I think Gwladys is a bit more popular in Wales (and Everton) and surprisingly seems to be a French name too.

[pmanson]

I'm Phillip (With 2 L's) and i'm normally called Phill.

My son's at primary school and there are no Phill's/Phillips in his class (there was another chap at school with me called Phil). However among the Dad's there are 3 others called Phil/Phill.

We all went out drinking at Christmas and of the 8 of us out, 4 of us were called Phil/Phill and there was all two Gary's!


My youngest turned One last week - she's called Elsie. It seems to be making a come back

[schmunk]

legless said:

Somewhere in the UK, there is a chap in his mid 40s, eating his lunch, blissfully unaware that he is the youngest person in the UK to be named Malcolm.

21 baby Malcolms registered in England and Wales in 2015 alone...

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunit...

[Pothole]

J4CKO said:

some of these may have already come back in already.

You are Woody Allen and ICMFP!

[RicksAlfas]

pmanson said:

I'm Phillip (With 2 L's) and i'm normally called Phill.

My son's at primary school and there are no Phill's/Phillips in his class (there was another chap at school with me called Phil). However among the Dad's there are 3 others called Phil/Phill.

We all went out drinking at Christmas and of the 8 of us out, 4 of us were called Phil/Phill and there was all two Gary's!

Same with Richard.
Richard and Phil(l)ip were very common names when I was at school, but I bet there haven't been many new ones in the last 30-40 years!

[schmunk]

CanAm said:

I've only ever known one Gladys, a mature lady I worked with many years ago. Though I think Gwladys is a bit more popular in Wales (and Everton) and surprisingly seems to be a French name too.

A m-m-m-m-mature lady, you say?

[toasty]

Norman?
Walter?
Geoffrey?

I've always been tempted to call my dog Geoff.

[HTP99]

toasty said:

Norman?
Walter?
Geoffrey?

I've always been tempted to call my dog Geoff.

I love it when dogs are named with proper people names, on Pistonheads there is a Nigel, Malcolm, Barry (mine), Daphne (mine), our late Pug was called Humphrey.

[kpeter202]

I'm married to a Nerys.

Ken

Ps, she uses her middle name of Lynne.

Ken

[Prohibiting]

I don't think we've had:

Priscilla
Elaine
Peggy
Monica

Ivor
Donald
Ryder


My Mum is called Elaine and her middle name is Priscilla. My Dad is Phillip with middle name Nigel. That's so sterotypical of that era.

Edited by Prohibiting on Friday 15th September 14:05

[227bhp]

I once went out with a Joyce, named after her mother I think.

Trollop is always a good name we rarely use these days, rolls off the tongue lovely especially in a Edmund Blackadder style.

[Alex]

My maternal grandparents were called Cecil and Cecily.

[CanAm]

schmunk said:

A m-m-m-m-mature lady, you say?

Indeed. Though she didn't have the impressive embonpoint of Nurse Gladys.

[turbomoped]

Good or not Adolf seems to have died out pretty rapidly at some point though there are a lot of Dolph's around.

[HTP99]

Alex said:

My maternal grandparents were called Cecil and Cecily.

My nan was Bertha, her husband was Bert.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

turbomoped said:

Good or not Adolf seems to have died out pretty rapidly at some point though there are a lot of Dolph's around.

Is Dolph in?

[schmunk]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

turbomoped said:

Good or not Adolf seems to have died out pretty rapidly at some point though there are a lot of Dolph's around.

Is Dolph in?

What was the porpoise of that post...?

[spud989]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

turbomoped said:

Good or not Adolf seems to have died out pretty rapidly at some point though there are a lot of Dolph's around.

Is Dolph in?

He's in Lungren on business.

[jontymo]

Selwyn as in Frogget
Stanley
Harold
Bert

Constance
Barbara
Gladys

[daddy cool]

turbomoped said:

Good or not Adolf seems to have died out pretty rapidly at some point

Herod doesn't seem that popular now either.