Baby names since 1904

My name has never been popular in any era.
GD1 has a good old fashioned name which features in both our family trees back to the 19th century.

Thanks for all the input.
I think the site is a fascinating one to play around a bit.

Both my names seem to have fallen off a cliff shortly after I was given them! Neither were top ten names.

My oldest dd's name was unheard of until some years after she was born. It then gained some popularity but has more or less disappeared again. My second dd's name was most popular in 1906 and disappeared some twenty years later. When older people learn of her name they always say 'Oh, I had a granny/auntie called that.'

We were also ahead of the curve with ds1's name, which then became very popular. It's on the way out again now. My ds2's name is a perennial favourite.

No mystery about my given name. You couldn't chuck a stick without hitting a Margaret when I was growing up. And probably when my grandmother was growing up, the one I was named after. Fortunately there are plenty of variations. DGM was Meg.

I know of a few little Megs now. I'm told Maggie was on the shortlist for a couple of my DGC if they'd been girls, which touched me.

My name and those of my daughters have never been in. Younger sons hasn't either nor dh. Unfortunately DS1 is very common.

My name was in the top ten the year I was born but there were very few ten years earlier or ten years later, It is such a dated name that although I have met many, over the years we are all much of an age.

One of my children has a name which was very popular when she was born but hardly ever used now. Another of my children has a name which was extremely unusual when she was born but is in the top ten now.

You never meet anybody under 60 with my name.

Mine has never been in the top 100, which is not surprising.

That's interesting AuntieFlo thank you.

I love it that so many have responded without giving away your names.

LullyDully it may be that the latest film version of Little Women will spark a revival?

My name is in all those top 100s, though never very high up. It is, I think, a name that doesn’t date.

Some names can date their owners, and there is the prickly business of class connotations, too.

My name was quite popular in the sixties = top 20.

My DD's name did not appear in the top 100.
However I suspect that in another country's top 100 names, it would appear quite high up on the list.

Off to check other family names

When I was at school there were 6 of us with my name. Don't think there are any now due to a certain prime minister.

I hated my name, until my beautiful granddaughter was given it as a middle name. Somehow now it feels far more acceptable.

My name is not popular but interesting to see the most popular birth date is the 26th September, 39 weeks 2 days after christmas.

My name has never been popular but DH’s 3 christian names have always been.

I think that the eldest daughter, from the programme 'Our Yorkshire Farm', was named Raven.

My name is vaguely popular now. Until I was about 50 I never met or heard of anyone with the same name . I was born in 1944. I never knew where my parents got it from

Mine has never been in the top 100, either, and I'm not surprised.

Seems mine peaked in 1960, which rather dates me!

My name was never in the top 100- if it was heard now, it would not be classed as an "old lady's" name.

My name's not there. I did think it was popular around the time I was born as there three of us in my year at school.

Mine didn’t appear until the 1940s, peaked in the 1950s and has been forgotten about since 1960.
I don’t like it so I’m not surprised!!

Neither of my forenames are listed.

I remember meeting someone I'd worked with who had just had a baby, this was 1987 (year my first was born) and she'd called him Jack. I had to control my surprise as it was unusual then.
So many Jacks in our generation and our GC's

How interesting!

My name has never been in the top 10 but it has if spelt without the e on the end that mine has...

Neither of my granddaughters names have been in the top 100

Chestnut Exactly so! That's why I posted. My son's names were very popular at the time of their births - though not the reasons they were chosen, but with some names people might almost wear a badge declaring the year they were born.
I know of a lass named Raven, unique I think.