Fashionable names

I think Susan is fine!

Both my sister and I have quite unusual names for the era in which we were born, I’m not sure quite why as my brothers have very nice but standard names. I think I’m a year older than princess Anne and I know about six “ann/es”. Several Lindas and Christines.
It’s all very subjective though isn’t it, this liking a name !

I love Susan but really don't like Sue. (Sorry Sues out there). My middle name is Linda and personally I don't like it but so what!
I would love to see more Janes.

Susan means lily flower and Barbara means exotic. Lots of meaning there.

And Alegria means joy

In 1981, we named our son George.
My mother was - more than - horrified.
It took her two years before she was prepared to call him by name - up to then, he was just 'baby'.
All because she had had a dreadful great uncle George?‍♀️
We just ignored it.

I really think those of us who are disappointed with peoples' choice of baby names should mind their own business. It is such a personal thing for the parent(s) and not to be marred by outside - albeit close family - opinions. How rude and unkind. I'm currently in this position with a lovely new baby whose appointed name makes me shudder but no one will ever know and I'll just revel in the joy of getting to know her and her name will undoubtedly just become a part of her.

I've always liked the name's Jacqueline and Maria and I do like David.

I too think they are dull and dated I d never call a baby by a name popular a generation or two ago (including my own name)
The above mentioned are plain and boring to my ears I like something with a bit more umph and meaning although I don’t like those awful made up ones or those that are just respelt like Florence becoming Florenze
But it’s very very personal isn’t it and what I find boring doesn’t mean it’s wrong for them just wrong for me and at the end of the day none of us have any voice as to our offsprings choices I m lucky I like all 7 of my grandkids names. But if I didn’t I d grow to as soon as they were here

Susan is my middle name so I'm biased. I think its lovely!

I'd like to see more girls called Barbara, and more boys called David.

IMO a lot of names such as Jane, John, Mary and Susan, will be making a comeback in the not too distant. I love John!

Look what’s happened to a lot of the names that many of my era connected with whiskery old great-aunts - Mabel, Florence, Edith, etc, - a dd’s friend named a recent baby Ada. To me I’m afraid to say it conjured up someone in a pinny with curlers in her hair, very likely with a fag hanging out of her mouth, too.
Younger parents won’t have those associations.

Except for the really timeless classics, IMO most of them have their popular eras, followed by decades in the wilderness, but eventually resurrected again.
How about Linda? So popular among my generation, ditto Christine, but you so rarely - if ever - hear of any baby called those names now.

I love the name Susan !