Good names nobody uses any more ?

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As per title, what names do you never hear being used nowadays that should be.

Vic Reeves was on telly so thought Victor is a good, strong name that nobody seems to ever calls a child nowadays. So got me to thinking what other names are there and perhaps cut down on the number of Kaydens and Jaydens ? some of these may have already come back in already.

Vincent
Stanley
Ronnie
Roland
Vernon
Leon
Arnold
Morris
Albert
Lloyd
Hugh
Ted
Arthur
Ernie
Bert
Reg
Edgar
Edmund



Girls

Ruth
Renee
Meredith
Connie
Audrey
April
May
June
Julie ?
Barbara
Patsy
Ivy
Cleo
Wendy
Tracy
Shirley
Evelyn
Bonnie
Daisy

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Roman Rhodes said:

Barry
Wayne
Cyril
Colin
Trevor
Frank
Malcolm
Dennis
Donald

Or Auf Weidersehen Pet as we know it !

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Shakermaker said:

boyse7en said:

Plenty of Ronnies, Alberts, Arthurs and Barnabys around.

The least popular names are the ones that were popular when us parents were at school – Stephen, Nigel, Mark, David, Richard, Colin, Trevor, etc were everywhere when I was at school, never hear of anyone under 40 called it now.

some names tend to skip a generation or two.

I can't really imagine a baby Peter, Michael or Daniel right now, I can barely imagine a David, but those are the most popular names amongst my close group of friends, but also amongst uncles, my dad's mates etc etc.

But then, with a baby of my own on the way, I'm starting to think about names that are nice, and some of those are from "what's popular" right now, but also, there are some older family names that could well start coming back into fashion.

I suspect that it won't be uncommon for children born in 25-30 years time to start using their grand parents names of Nigel and Keith and Nicholas all over again...

And Gary.

Yeah, true, the current crop have to die off and be largely forgotten and the name gets refreshed and seems a bit retro cool again, Kenneth may reappear once that creep uncle has died and everyone forgot how weird he was.

I'm a Mark, we and the female equivalent, Tracy are all generally 45 or older, my wife is a Wendy, we know another couple with the same names, every other Wendy is over 50.

I suppose if you know loads of people in middle age with a name that's what that name means to you, and you would struggle to call a baby Barry or Nigel but someone did.

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austinsmirk said:

My grandmother and grandfather were called Pearl and Dean.

but to me they'll always be

Grand Pa, pa, pa, pah pa, pa pah.......................

I had a Grandad George and still have a Grandma Mildred, sadly they werent married to each other, my dads dad and my mums mum.

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Eric Mc said:

Eric

True, great name and its done its time in the wilderness, however someone I know has a mate who he has known since they were small and as a teenager was round at his mates with a load of other lads and raided his dads gentleman's special interest video selection, the film they put on was most definitely of the racy variety but it featured the lads mum, dad and "Eric", Eric was not human but stood about ten inches high and ran on batteries.... Eric was good at hide and seek I was told.

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Our eldest is Oscar, he is 21, none about back then but quite a few now. Youngest, 18 is Alfred and again none about until Shane Ritchie turned up in Eastenders a few years later and now there are loads of "Alfies", but he is Alfred to me, other people call him Alfie but I dont, he quite likes Alf. Middle one is Edward but prefers Ed.