The nostalgia of the 1980s isn’t happening for baby names.
According to BabyCentre, some names made most popular in the 1980s are now “endangered”.
The website identified 24 names that have been snubbed by millions of parents this year.
Although old fashioned names are on trend – Mildred, Gail and Edna have not been registered on the website’s girls list in 2017.
The site says poor old Karen hasn’t been used once and I remember when it was a popular name.
Roger, Clive and Frank are names being left behind for boys but shortened names like Freddie, Alfie, and Archie are sneaking into the top 20.
Naming a baby is a huge responsibility and there is arguably a golden name range that most parents are looking for - something not too popular but not unusual.
Is that name on this list of 2017's endangered names?
Girls
- Cilla
- Bertha
- Cynthia
- Janice
- Anita
- Marcia
- Mildred
- Dorothy
- Edna
- Bonnie
- Cindy (Sindy)
- Donna
- Gail
- Karen
Boys
- Ian (Iain)
- Frank
- Clarence
- Ricky
- Edmund
- Gus
- Roger
- Bertram
- Clive
- Roald
Top Comments
Many aren't surprising. I think bertha died out probably a century ago but Karen is a surprise. I went to school with a couple at some points. None of the boys names are a surprise
Probably a good idea to avoid on-trend names. I did a stint in a child care centre a few years ago and there were about eight boys called Zac and about fifteen girls called Grace. Made it very confusing for everyone concerned. LOL :) I was named after a relation who died in 1914. So I have a very old fashioned name. Sure it will come back one day. Names are like fashions in clothes - they repeat themselves eventually.