Names rarely used

[Bunkermagnet]

So when I was pondering the other day, it struck me how certain names are hardly used now.
So what names do you never hear now, one boy and one girl is all we want.

Duncan

Gaynor

 

[D-S]

So when I was pondering the other day, it struck me how certain names are hardly used now.
So what names do you never hear now, one boy and one girl is all we want.

Duncan

Gaynor

Gladys

Lionel

 

[Voyager EMH]

My late mum and dad

Enid and Norman

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Cedric

Ethel

 

[Backache]

Arnold

Gertrude



(Duncan is still very common in Scotland.)

 

[2blue]

Stanley

Warren

My 35 year old RM lad is Duncan

 

[Imurg]

Gerald

My old Mum Dorothy

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

Doris
Frank

 

[Crow]

Kevin

Shirley

 

[Fade and Die]

Loads of Karen’s and Brian’s at school in the 80s, don’t think there were many kids christened these names last year.

 

[Imurg]

Gary was a declining name but, apparently, has seen a resurgence in the last 18 months..

 

[Robin Hood]

Reginald
Fanny

 

[rulefan]

Claude
Agatha

 

[cliveb]

Dare I say it?
Here's a boy's name you never see these days: Adolf

 

[jim8flog]

Albert
Sydney
Chardonnay seems to have been but a passing phase.

 

[Reemul]

Ian / Iain rare these days

 

[fenwayrich]

Barry and Beryl are nearly extinct

 

[Hobbit]

Earnest. My g’father was an Earnest, and it was my dad’s middle name. Thankfully it went no further.

Joan. Mum was a Joan.

 

[HampshireHog]

My Dad is Roger not many in my generation or later.

My gran was Winifred truly horrific.

 

[arnieboy]

My granddad was called Sidney, my granny was Edith and my mother Phyllis.