Underused baby names due for a come back?

[Anonymous]

Allison
Daniela
Melissa
Marisa
Dawn
Samantha
Amanda
Kelly

Boy names are so much harder!

Rudy
Dominic
Lawrence
Cody
Cory
Sean
Greg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Allison
Daniela
Melissa
Marisa
Dawn
Samantha
Amanda
Kelly

Boy names are so much harder!

Rudy
Dominic
Lawrence
Cody
Cory
Sean
Greg

I like a lot of these! My neighborhood is pretty Irish-American, so there are always a lot of Seans. And actually, more Kellys than you would think, for both boys and girls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maria
Claudia
Victoria
Susannah
Mary

Maria?! I know about ten.

I adore Maria, and I don't know a single one under age 45.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

[Anonymous]

Emma
Julia
Peter
Brandon
Brendon

[Anonymous]

Matilda
Lucy
Josephine

[Anonymous]

I almost sixty and I had an aunt Marlene. Thinking names like Doreen, Marlene, Arlene, Eileen might make a come back. Let’s hear it for the “een” names!

[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.

Gen Xer and I have always loved the name Lisa. It was a top contender if we had a girl.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emma
Julia
Peter
Brandon
Brendon

Emma is the opposite of "underused".

But agree with Peter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I almost sixty and I had an aunt Marlene. Thinking names like Doreen, Marlene, Arlene, Eileen might make a come back. Let’s hear it for the “een” names!

I have a 4yo Colleen and so far we haven't met another.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yep, I agreed with Daniel on the condition that there will be no nicknames. Seems like the rest of the moms felt the same: Daniel goes to school with Thomas and Gabriel, while my coworkers include Gabe and Tommy.

No-nickname moms are insufferable.

Yes, but inevitably their child winds up with a peer- or self-assigned nickname they HATE, and then spend the rest of their life grinding their teeth and saying “It’s GabRIEL” under her breath when all their sons college friends, his wife, and coworkers just call him Gabe.

MIL? Once again, Brucie or Tommy sounds weird on adult males.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost sixty and I had an aunt Marlene. Thinking names like Doreen, Marlene, Arlene, Eileen might make a come back. Let’s hear it for the “een” names!

I have a 4yo Colleen and so far we haven't met another.

Colleen is so sweet.

I'm digging this thread. Totally agree with Nancy, Frances, Lisa.

[Anonymous]

My 17 year old has the middle name Dawn. It was on the short list for first names, but it just didn't feel right when we saw her.

I think it is adorable, though.

My kids were telling me what they want to name children last night and I pretty much thought all the names were pretentious.

[Anonymous]

I love the name Felicia, but I think that movie line has killed it forever