Kid's names you don't hear any more

[Gwylan]

Fred.

A certain NSC poster has a son called Freddie

Albert.

There's one in my son's class

George suffered a huge drop-off for a while but no doubt it'll be back now it's a Prince's name once more.

There's one in my daughter's class

The thing I notice most about kids' names now is the way that diminutives have become fashionable. At my kids' school there are various kids called Jack, Ollie, Harry, Charlie - and those are their full names. When did that become fashionable?

And when did Fin become fashionable? I know of three kids with this name, unheard of when I was young.

 

[Rowdey]

David

And just a piss take name now too in adverts.. Something to do with the urban myth that everyone knows a Dave/David..

 

[Bladders]

No one in my son's school year is called:

Darren
Paul
Gary
Daniel
Nick
Chris
Steve
Lee
David
Sean

Though most boys at my school were called this only 25 years ago

 

[jakarta]

Albert
Cyril
Herbert
Horace (my granddad on my father's side - a right curmudgeon)
Percy
Walter

 

[jakarta]

No one in my son's school year is called:

Darren
Paul
Gary
Daniel
Nick
Chris
Steve
Lee
David
Sean

Though most boys at my school were called this only 25 years ago

Most of MY chums were called Piers, D'Arcy and Jolyon, you must have gone to a simply DREADFUL school

 

[Justice]

Jimmy Saville

 

[Cappers]

Emmanuel

 

[lawros left foot]

Winifred, Gladys, Engelbert. My nephews son is called Edgar

 

[Bladders]

Emmanuel

I got it on Betamax

 

[ali jenkins]

Rolf

 

[Razzoo]

Godfrey
Humphrey

 

[atfc village]

Thomasina which would of been my name if i'd been a girl.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Colin

This

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Simeon.

I have TWO of the defunct names mentioned above. Belinda was very popular for boys in the early 1970s, I'm told.

Was it shit. Name one.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Winifred, Sandra, Desmond , Donald, Peter, Jane, Colin, Trevor, Arnold, Joanne, Richard,
All these names are very rare nowadays for kids to be called !!

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Graeme

 

[Man of Harveys]

Craig. Or Gordon. Or indeed Craig Gordon.

 

[beardy gull]

Fred.

Don't know any Fred's younger than me.

My daughter in Year 3 (whatever THAT is) has a Fred in her class.

 

[Man of Harveys]

Geoffrey

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Mick.