Underused baby names due for a come back?

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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.

No one is talking about “Brucie” that’s a baby name not a nickname.

But people who name their kids Daniel, Gabriel, Thomas, Victoria, Jessica, etc., and then try to police their own choice to use nicknames like Dan, Gabe, Tom, Vic, Jess, etc. It’s fine if you only want to call your kid by their full name, and if they choose that, great. But if you choose a name with a common nickname you actively don’t like and then militantly try to prevent anyone from using the nickname, it’s just controlling.

I don't call Jess "Jessica" or Dan "Daniel" out of respect for their name choices and preferences, despite my liking the full versions better. It's baffling to me, that expecting respect for my choices is being "just controlling".

PS. I know an adult Brucie, and it's not my place (or yours) to argue whether it's a baby name to not.

The whole point is that once you give your kid a name, THEY get to decide whether the are okay with nicknames or not. Not mommy.

For a child under school age, sure, tell people “it’s Daniel, not Dan.” But after that, it’s up to the kid, and when a mom starts telling his friends and others “no, it’s Daniel,” when actually he is totally cool with Dan and even likes it when his school friends call him that, yes, it’s controlling.

You’re just being argumentative on Bruce— I don’t care either way but either you or another PP brought it up as anocknsme you think sounds bad on an adult. I didn’t dismiss it because I wouldn’t use it if someone old me to, I dismissed it because it’s a ridiculous straw man in a conversation about nicknames, since it’s not even remotely common for people to use it as a nickname on anyone over the age of 2. Which you know.

Whatever. Speaking of strawmen, you made up a scenario and based on it called me insufferable and controlling.

FWIW, the only person who I insisted called my kid Daniel is my DH. Lucky for me, Daniel in question (who is in HS), uses his full name as do his friends.

I’m not the PP who called you insufferable, but I see it’s a sensitive issue for you.

Based on the verbiage in her previous posts (her writing style is easily identifiable) it seems like her much bigger gripe is being labeled as "controlling" (although, controlling people ARE insufferable & exhausting, so they always go hand-in-hand 😁).

Yeah, I personally would not want to spend my kid’s life worrying that other people might call him by the extremely common nickname associated with his name, so I just wouldn’t call my kid Daniel if I hated the name Dan. 🤷‍♀️

+1 My sister loved Charles and Charlie but hated Chuck so she didn’t choose it.

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Anonymous wrote:Two of my friends in the UK named their sons Harvey. To me, they sound old and fat but they were well-educated, upper-ish class people.

It just makes me think of Harvey Wallbangers, which are kind of like screwdrivers. Or Harvey Weinstein. Neither of which are terrific associations for a baby, but I'm guessing people in the UK probably don't make these two associations first thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Ruth

Does little baby Ruth also carry Werthers Originals in her purses and used tissues in every pocket of every coat she owns?

This made me spit my water out, lol. 🤣

You're right though, Ruth is an old lady name.
I never expect to meet a Ruth that's taller than 4'9".

It's funny though because some old lady names get mega-popular and others don't. Sophia/Sofia was a an old lady name up until maybe 10 years ago? Same with Ava and Evelyn. All top 10 now.

So I feel like the trend has become "old lady name that won't get popular" and thus names like Florence, Beatrice, Lydia, and Josephine are... getting popular

Olivia was an old lady name forever.
- 50-year-old

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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.

My husband comes from an Irish American family from Chicago. His family and his cousins read like the roll call from an Andrew Greeley novel: Sean, Patrick, Robbie, Danny, Kelly, Molly, Bridget, Kathleen, Eileen, Deirdre, Brendon, Rosie

Heh! I grew up in Chicago too. This list reads like the class rosters at my Catholic high school!

Another Irish Chicagoan here and your list includes my first, middle, and last name, all 3 of my kids' names (2 first and middle, 1 just first), and one of my brothers

My kids are at a Catholic school in Chicago and when my mom heard the birthday party roster (Marty, Leo, Harry, Eddie, Benny) she said it sounded like a bunch of old men sitting at a deli counter.

PP whose names are all on that list and I Irish danced for 18 years and my daughters both do now. We know approximately 1 million Kelly, Maraget, Bridget, Kathleen, Erin, Niamh, Maeve, Nuala, Meghan, Eileen, Colleen, Maura, Mary(Claire, Kate, Beth), Kiera, Caitlin, etc.
-Also went to Chicago Catholic schools from prek-senior year (all girls high school at that )

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Circe

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Anonymous wrote:It suddenly occurred to me tonight that Fred/Freddy is a GREAT NAME and I've never met a real life person with it, just characters in books and movies.

So if you are having a boy, I am submitting Frederick/Alfred/Freddy/Fred for your list. I am NOT having a boy, but I think it's my platonic ideal for a baby name -- classic but underused, a serious full name with friendly nickname options, and I find it extremely pleasing to say.

What else is due for a comeback? What name would it please you to no end to hear hollered across a playground or see printed on a daycare cubby?

I work with three Fredericks.

Lots of nicknames: Rick, Freddy, Freddie, Fred

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Check out these names:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2xjNyXh26g/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

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Anonymous wrote:Check out these names:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2xjNyXh26g/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

I have become convinced that these posts linking to this IG account are from the person who runs the account. And the more they post them, the more I hate the account and find the name suggestions therein to be incredibly bad.

Fergus? Come. On.

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Luz
Marisol
Vivíen
Marlene
Marian
Hedy
Rita
Veronica
Ruby
Louis
Martín
Lee
Dean
Clark
Spencer

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Whitney
Sienna

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Marcella/Marcy
Madge

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Todd

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Angela
Gerald
Marie
Francis

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We need more Jills to balance out so many Jacks.

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Anonymous wrote:Check out these names:
https://www.instagram.com/p/B2xjNyXh26g/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

I have become convinced that these posts linking to this IG account are from the person who runs the account. And the more they post them, the more I hate the account and find the name suggestions therein to be incredibly bad.

Fergus? Come. On.

I knew a Fergus in undergrad. He was actually crazy popular with the girls. Great sense of humor!