Underused baby names due for a come back?

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Anonymous wrote:Kevin

Heather

There are 31 Kevins in the high school I work in. 29 are Latino.

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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.

I LOVE the name Liam, and have never heard of it being used as a nickname (or rather to shorten) the name William.... how lovely.

Disagree that it's lovely, since it's the same name in a different language. It's appropriation, like naming your kid Joseph and calling them Jose "as a nickname."

Liam Neeson's real name is William John Neeson.

I haven't heard many people using Topher as nickname of Christopher.

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I only recently found out that Remy can be a nickname for Jeremy. I know a Jeremy called Mio.

I'd like to meet a little Patty or Carl.

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Anonymous wrote:Marjorie

Really bad reference at the moment.

Yeah no sane person would use this right npw

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Genevieve

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Hubert
Albert
Gilbert
Herbert
Bertie

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Otto

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Adolf

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Anonymous wrote:Genevieve

There were 3 Genevieves in my son’s kindergarten class of 30 kids. And I’ve heard of 2 toddlers named Genevieve in the past week. Must be trending.

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Susan
Marie
Judy

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Carolyn - makes me think of Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and close to the perennial favorite Caroline.

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Ross , Russell

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This preoccupation with finding an “underused” name is so phucking weird

Is it though? All these suggestions of 60's and 70's names like Susan? I was born in 1970 and literally have 4 friends named Sue. So boring.
And yes, haha, I have so many friends/acquaintances named Karen! And Cathy/Kathy...

The names from the 50's that are becoming popular, Eleanor, Nora, Josephine are pretty to us, but in about 20 years there will be a ton of them.
And I personally wouldn't want to be one of 3 in my grade with the same name.

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Sheila and Ray have both disappeared, and I think it’s time for a revival!

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Anonymous wrote:We need more Jills to balance out so many Jacks.