Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:55     Subject: Re:Underused baby names due for a come back?
Anonymous wrote:My grandmas and their sisters:

Verla
Pearl
Estelle
Virginia
Wilda
Ruby
Josephine
Mildred
Betty (Elizabeth)
Patty (Patricia)


Edit to add: Mildred is kind of awful, but she went by Millie her whole life and that isn't too bad.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:54     Subject: Re:Underused baby names due for a come back?
My grandmas and their sisters:

Verla
Pearl
Estelle
Virginia
Wilda
Ruby
Josephine
Mildred
Betty (Elizabeth)
Patty (Patricia)
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:46     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Gwendolyn/Mabel PP.

I listed names to include that of my own GMa straight from her 1929 yearbook.

Let me add:
Blythe
Susan or Susannah
Laura
Dorothy
Lillian
Louise

I’m a Rebecca and do wonder if my name is coming back. I get so many compliments on my name now at middle age than I ever did as a young girl. I don’t think enough time has passed for a return of:Cheryl/Pamela/Sherry/Patricia/Leslie/Denise/Julie/Deborah - yet.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:30     Subject: Re:Underused baby names due for a come back?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Florence, Gloria, Frances, Beatrice

My uncle's name is Frederick and he has always gone by "Fritz."


My grandma's name was Frances and I would have used it if I had had a girl. The older daughter on the show Platonic is named Frances (the younger is Maeve).

I also have an Uncle Fritz.


Ummm ... are you me, lol? Was Frances the mom of Fritz? I had a grandmother named Frances too, and she was Fritz's mother!
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:14     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Anonymous wrote:Susan
Linda
Barbara
Nancy
Judith nn Judy
Deborah nn Debbie


I was just talking to my mom (unfortunately named Karen) about her generation's names being prime for a comeback. The conversation came up because we know of a new baby Linda, nn Lindy, named after a late grandmother, and it sounds so fresh and cute. Add to the list Bonnie, Donna, and Cheryl.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:10     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Michelle
Amy

Matt - not going by Matthew
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 13:07     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Susan
Linda
Barbara
Nancy
Judith nn Judy
Deborah nn Debbie


Debbie is never coming back. Once you do Dallas, that's kind of the nail in the coffin.


FWIW, you bringing that reference up is the only reason I thought of it. Most people having children today weren’t even alive when that came out.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 12:59     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Cecilia
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 12:58     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Judy
Sharon
Candice
Allen
Vance
Paul
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 12:56     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Frances
Edith
Majorie
Ellen
Laura

Gregory
Edmond
Merle
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 12:52     Subject: Re:Underused baby names due for a come back?
Anonymous wrote:Florence, Gloria, Frances, Beatrice

My uncle's name is Frederick and he has always gone by "Fritz."


My grandma's name was Frances and I would have used it if I had had a girl. The older daughter on the show Platonic is named Frances (the younger is Maeve).

I also have an Uncle Fritz.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 12:45     Subject: Re:Underused baby names due for a come back?
Louise
Rose
Alice
Alma
Iris
Nina
Eva
Victoria
Constance
Mary/Marie/Maria
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 11:39     Subject: Re:Underused baby names due for a come back?
It's time for the new phase of "grandma names", the names that were popular in the 50s-60s since those people are now the grandmothers of the young women having babies. The most appealing will be those that end in "a" since that seems to be such a strong current preference. So...

Linda
Susanna
Donna
Patricia
Pamela
Teresa
Laura
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 11:39     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
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.
We had two Selmas in our dance class. It's strange when rare names are duplicated in a small group.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2023 11:38     Subject: Underused baby names due for a come back?
Anonymous wrote:Susan
Linda
Barbara
Nancy
Judith nn Judy
Deborah nn Debbie


Debbie is never coming back. Once you do Dallas, that's kind of the nail in the coffin.