Fashionable names

I prefer Susannah.

I like the names Sandra, Mary, Jocelyn, Julie, Evelyn, Lillian and suzette but I cannot see most of them coming back. I have a neighbour who's called her daughter Florence, which I love.

When I was at primary school, there was a girl called Lillian. My own name seems to have long gone out of fashion, I've never heard anyone outside my generation called it.

GrandmaKT I called my doll Sylvia after Auntie Sylvia on Watch with mother.

Names really do go in cycles don't they? I bet our parents generation thought names like Lilly and Alfie would never see the light of day again.
No doubt, in another 25 years or so the nursing homes will be full of Jackies and Melanies and Traceys and the playgrounds will be full of Pamelas and Janets and Annes.

I would like to see Eileen become popular again.

Susan was definitely 'the' name of my year (1959). There were several in my year at school and I have three friends called Susan to this day. For that reason it sounds a bit dated to me, but I have a niece called Suzie which I prefer.
A friend has just called her new baby Sylvia, which sounds like an old-lady name to me!

I just missed being called Scarlet (Gone with the Wind); would have liked it. Also my first name and second were switched around at the Registrar's by my father who went after a visit to the pub and forgot his instructions.
The Queen has a corgie called Susan.

Some years ago at DD's graduation ceremony I was interested to see the list of their full names. It seems that although we don't hear of the traditional names being used they are still very popular as second names. Jane and Mary or Marie being the most popular.
My dad had several friends called Percy and that's another which hasn't come round again.

I like the name Susan we used to have a lot of Susans at school,
I do not like the name Barbara very much.

A neighbours daughter called the baby Bessie which you do not hear often. We had a lot of Ann/Annes at school also Mary,
Linda, and Christine.

My daughter gave her children those fancy names which I
am still not sure about one of them is not too bad but the others are somewhat wayout.

Brenda? Wendy? And when I lived in Australia in the late 60s, there was a slew of Merril,, Terril, Cheryl... not many in uk.

I named my daughter Susan when she was born in the mid-80s after her paternal grandmother. It was very unusual then, and she has gone through life meeting very few other Susans in her age group. It has never been shortened by family or friends - she hates being called Sue. I hope it becomes fashionable again, it's a lovely name and she'll feel trendy!

I had two Aunt Gertrudes. Wonder if that name will ever be fashionable again?

Those Welsh names you mention Anniebach are beautiful but I guess I am biased being Welsh!!

One of the questions posed by a young grandchild on our family quiz was "In the Harry Potter films, what was Hermione Grainger's middle name?"

It was Jean.

I think that Susan is a lovely name, good to see it back in fashion. There were five Susans in my class at school, not come across it since, only the odd Sue. (One was very odd).
Last night there was a female journalist who was reporting from Jersey. Her name was Jean, she looked quite young too. That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.

As a child of the 50’s, my classmates were Elaine, Dawn, Christine, Diana, Penelope, Diane, Heather, Lesley, Glynis to name a few.

I am not revealing my name, have never liked it. No one is ever called it nowadays.

i wish my mum had called me something else . i was named after someone in the hospital. (just thought i was born at home) maybe i was taken there afterwards. would have liked to be called elizabeth. i have that as my second name.....but i intend to go out the same way as i came in .W.E.M.

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Any one heard of a baby called Lionel or Cecil?
I know of someone calling their baby Lion. But not Lionel.

Yes, here in France

Having older French students, just looking at the list of names I can guess their ages before seeing them. As for children, I didn’t think I had heard right the first time, when a boy said Adolf, but he was from another country. For myself, in the 50s, hardly anyone had heard mine, a situation which is different nowadays. I hated it when I was little but now people think I am younger than I am because of it.

Susan is one of a group of girls names which are found (in some form) all over Europe - Mary, Jane, Elizabeth, Anne, Margaret, Catherine, Helen, Susan, Alice, Sarah, Isobel. Eleanor.

Other European girls names are versions of boys names -Alexandra, Charlotte, Willma, Roberta, Nichola, Andrea, Henrietta, Davina, Georgina, Martina

Then there are names which go in and out of fashion and become very dated, perhaps because of a famous singer-ot actress- Valerie, Marilyn, Gloria, Natalie, Tracey, Britney, Lola, Shirley, Kim, Tiffany.

One of my children has a name which was almost unheard of when she was born in the 1970s and is now one of the most popular. I don't know why. She is not famous!

Any one heard of a baby called Lionel or Cecil?
I know of someone calling their baby Lion. But not Lionel.

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

And Alegria means joy

I read Barbara was Roman for barbarian!

Alegria re Scottish names, my grandmother was called Wilhelmina and insisted that my aunt call her daughter that. My mother resisted, thank goodness, as I'm not fond of it.

As I was a teacher for 25+ years, names have unfortunate resonances for me! I loved the name Sarah and wanted to call my daughter that, but I had a nightmare of a pupil with that name at the same time which really tainted it for me. I can't recall many Susans latterly. It's a nice name.