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First names do you consider to becoming rarer in the UK?

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tali1 | 19:05 Thu 24th Jan 2008 | People & Places
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Which first names do you consider to becoming rarer in the UK?
I reckon
Cecil,Cedric,Alfred ,Fanny(!), Ivy- when was the last person named as such in uk- must be over 50yrs ago?- Ebeneezer has disappeared - was it a common name in the last half of the 20th century.?
Reckon won't be too many Ronalds in several decades either
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Senga
When i worked in a nursery in 2001 there was a little girl about 18mths old called Ivy and a boy same age called Bert!
Alfie instead of Alfred is quite popular now.

Gerald, Margaret, Barbara, Joyce, Cynthia are ones i can think of.
It's funny how names have a habit of becoming fashionable again. When I was younger Emily was considered an old ladys name (Emily Bishop), as was Grace, Hannah, Alice and Ruby. All these names have become fashionable again. My Mother-in-law and two of my Aunties are called Connie, yet I've heard of a few little girls called Connie in the last few years.
Jack is now an extrememly popular boys names, yet there are no Jacks that I know of from my generation, the generation before, yes (where it was used as the diminutive form of John).
There may not be many Margarets around these days, but I do know of a Peggy.

Well, I'm French, but we have exactly the same thing happening. Susanne, Louise, Lucie for example were considered very old fashioned when I was a kid, and they are very popular now.
Ethel
Horace

Alan Bennett mused that there would be a time in England when ancient men in retirement homes would have such names as Wayne and everyone would be thinking what old person's names they were :)
Archibald, George, Fred, Agnes, Samuel, Jessie, Nellie, Mary - and no I'm not really a Senga.
valerie,
senga 2 there are lots of Archies around.
Not many Hughs or Olives around anymore. I've always thought Olive a very strange thing to name a girl. I'm glad it appears to have died out.

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