Underused baby names due for a come back?

[Anonymous]

There’s a baby Bruce at our center and it makes me chuckle

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Herbert

My uncle was Herbert and went by Uncle Hymie. Yes. Jewish immigrants from Russia during WWI

I had an Uncle Herman that went by Hy (after the family shortened the long Eastern European last name to Sherman)!

Herman is not ready for a come back IMO

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Anonymous wrote:Malcolm

Franklin (Frankie)

Daniel

Sandra

Daniel is very popular

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Amanda
Evette
Evonne
Lauren
Alyssa
Allison
Lana
Suzette
Michaela

These are al Millennial names. They will not make a comeback until grandparents or great grandparent age. The posters saying Lynda, Susan, Barbara, etc. are spot on.

Lauren, Alyssa, and Allison really aren't that unpopular. Trending downwards, yes, but there's still plenty of babies and little kids with those names. Last year, Lauren was #327. It dropped out of the top 100 in 2014. Allison was #101, and it was well in the top 100 all through the 2010s. That's not even getting into the Alysons, Alison, Allyson, etc. Alyssa was #288. By contrast, Barbara was #976, Linda was #807, and Susan wasn't in the top 1000.

I didn't realize Susan had fallen that far. I think it's really prime for a comeback as Susanna and Susie are named for grandma.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lisa has an interesting history. It is one of the few names to make the #1 spot in the U.S., (from 1962-1969) in the 60s there were over 50,000 Lisa babies born per year. It fell out of the top 10 in 1976, then it practically disappeared.

Names tend to come back when people start honoring their grandparents, so this baby is due, as the first wave of those 50,000 Lisas are turning 60.

Hugely popular after Lisa Marie Presley was born! All the Elvis fan mommies named their daughters Lisa Marie. Ask me how I know!

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Flora
Doris
Helen

[Anonymous]

Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Myrtle

Eunice

Euclid

Mabel

Gwendolyn

Ida

Muriel

Not a fan of any of these names coming back, other than Gwen and Mabel. My daughter had two Mabels in her Brownie troop this year so it may already be coming back.

So agree, somehow the other greatest generation names need to stay in the past, like Gertie, Howard ,Lenny and Harvey

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Amy

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Anonymous wrote:There’s a baby Bruce at our center and it makes me chuckle

I worked with a woman that had a baby Bruce. I loved that. He would be in hs by now

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Francisca

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Naomi
Cherie
Melanie
Simon

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Pauline
Leslie
Gina
Audrey
Cheryl

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Anonymous wrote:Brenda
Donna
Kelly
Brandon
Steve
Dylan
😝

You must have watched Project Runway Thursday night!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also consider that the nicknames aren’t popular anymore so we have William (who’s maybe Will or Liam), Daniel, Patrick, Christopher, Geoffrey or Jefferson, Thomas - just to name some examples straight from my life with teens.

Gen Xers with these names would have been Bill or Billy, Dan, Pat or Rick(y), Chris, Jeff and Tom or Tommy.

In my family’s situation, Dad is Bill and son is William.

Not to mention Richard. DD goes into hysterical laughter whenever she hears about an old-guy Richard nicknamed Dick.