steveo Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I just heard a kid call his mate 'Ned.' That's a pretty old fashioned name whose time has come again seemingly.My gran was called Bertha (Bert) and her brothers were Ernest, Hubert, Fred and Walter. Are those names you hear in the school playground these days? Could a proud parent look down into a cot and say 'Let's call her Bert'? Clarence? Winifred? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 It's a thing. Elsie. Olive. Noah, etc, lots of 'old fashioned names are making a comeback. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135657 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigello Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Way back in the mid-eighties, a teacher decided to call her son "Jack". It sounded really contradictory to me because she was a teacher, and therefore "posh" and I thought that name was very working class. Perhaps this was one of the first examples of a return to "traditional" names. Some names are revivable, but I cannot see any Beryls, Berts, Mabels or Peggys coming along anytime soon. Someone I know is going much further back than that, having called their son "Aleric" - apparently a pre-mediaeval name from England. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135663 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan05 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I know an 'Elias', ancient Greek. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stringvest Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Heard lots of old fashioned names lately : Alfie, Albert, Rose, Elsie, Maud, Ruby ,,,, Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135763 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabag Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 The football grounds of South London are awash with Frankie's, Billy's and Alfie'sEltham specially, along with that stoopid Peaky Blinder haircut Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135785 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristymac1 Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I have a 4yr old Fred, named after his Grandad... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135790 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Poste's Child Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Seabag Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> The football grounds of South London are awash> with Frankie's, Billy's and Alfie's> > Eltham specially, along with that stoopid Peaky> Blinder haircut You want to go to Birmingham: Peaky Blinders chic everywhere. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135823 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Poste's Child Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 This thread reminds me of Alan Bennett's piece on names dying out, trying to imagine modern names as old people: 'Psis doesn't trickle unheeded down a Nicky's leg...' Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135826 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Yes, these are becoming seriously fashionable. From my childhood: mildred (who quickly adopted 'millie' as much more thoroughly modern :-)), olive, florence, doris, elsie, and mould (sic) - the last apparently a contraction of mathilda. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135840 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 I had great Aunts - Enid, Ada, Doris (Dolly) some of these are coming back and my granddad was an Arch which seemed archaic but Archie is back with a vengence, Meanwhile very common names from my playground years that seem rare in young kids: Kevin, Andrew, Keith, Adrian, Nigel, Jane, Janice, Nicola Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted May 13, 2017 Share Posted May 13, 2017 Milan05 Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I know an 'Elias', ancient Greek.I saw a Dad running after his toddler recently, calling out 'Plato, Plato' Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seabag Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 siousxiesue Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Milan05 Wrote:> --------------------------------------------------> -----> > I know an 'Elias', ancient Greek.> > > I saw a Dad running after his toddler recently,> calling out 'Plato, Plato'That is very funny. When naming our 2 boys I imagined myself shouting thier names in our nearby park.I do wonder at some people when naming children/pets. My neighbor is from Downham or 'Dannhmm' and has a Haley, Kayla, and an Aimee, as well as a dog called Bailey.It's quite the thing when she gives them all a call in one go. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1135979 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan05 Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 I have just now seen a Dad trying to persuade Julius off the bouncy castle at Goose Green - maybe he knows Plato?! It could really be an ancient revival! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Poste's Child Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Not sure if those count as a revival - perhaps more a sign of how the ED demographic has changed over the last couple of decades? Classical names have long been a favourite of the upper middles / intelligentsia to overcome the apparent handicap of a normal surname like Smith or Green. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Met a Zebedee a few years ago. I cracked up and was tempted to ask about the Magic Roundabout. It's a generation thing and the youngster hadn't a clue where I was coming from. As with many things it is what you associate a name with from your yonger days. Harry was Harry worth the comic, and was a very old fashioned name. Now one of the most popular no doubt due to a certain character in a popular book. My dad was 'Guy' we hated it, he hated it yet in the 50s there was a famous hunky actor (Guy Maddison) that popularised it. Now Guy is a really cool game.The odd ones were names interchanged between the genders - I know a Lee (girl) Tracy (boy) and Dale (girl). There was also a boy named Sue and a girl called Johnny. Sometimes it works (eg Bertie) and Robyn's in the US are girls, rather than the usual boy Robin.You don't hear of many Leslies or Lesleys nowadays. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otta Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 I think this largely ties in with the whole middle class cupcake and bunting thing.Weird IMO.Not that there is anything wrong with some of the names.As a teenager I had a girlfriend called Nell. Never met anyone else my age or below with that name, but met several elderly Nells when I worked for social services. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136063 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Poste's Child Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Ruby's another one that's come back in the last ten years and now seems really popular. To my generation it was firmly linked to grandparents.A few more names that seemed to be in every class when I was at at school but which you don't hear people calling babies now: Susan, Jane, Mary, Anne, Nicola, Jacqueline, Joanna. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncleglen Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Nigello's teacher was probably naming her son after 'Jack' Straw the then Shadow Education secretary. Given the climate in teaching at the time I'm surprised there were not a load of Karls out there.... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Worked with a Nicola who married a Mr Nicholls. And a Lynn who became Lynn Flynn. A Ms Cunze (German name) who probably couldn't wait to change her name. And a friend who's maried name became Bowel, and they changed it to Bowl. A bit like Keeping up Appearances, the sitcome where the name was pronounced Bouquet not Bucket. Which leads me onto Penge pronounced in a Frech style (the fun we had with Sarf London names in the 80s and 90s. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
malumbu Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 And I genuinely worked with a Mike Cox (not Hunt) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rendelharris Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Thread calls to mind the always superb Half Man Half Biscuit and their song "Breaking News"; included in their list of people arrested for "annoying the nation":A woman who described herself as ?A little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex And The City? and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those who might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice: call him Rupert, it fits, and besides it?s a good name. Don?t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working class scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill?s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBM_MIT9EOM Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaywalker Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 Suggested names for the nouvelle vague:xeno (phobe)pluto (as in 'Pluto's Republic')verbena (as in 'Lemon')idy (as in March)dull (from Dulwich)free (as in 'free cash' on cash dispensers) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 uncleglen Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> Nigello's teacher was probably naming her son> after 'Jack' Straw the then Shadow Education> secretary. Given the climate in teaching at the> time I'm surprised there were not a load of Karls> out there....A while back a work colleague named her baby son Fidel Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
siousxiesue Posted May 14, 2017 Share Posted May 14, 2017 How about names that you have an unreasonably irate reaction to? A cute toddler I see frequently is called Jasper, I discovered this and was dismayed. And sorry but Simeon? Hate it Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/152872-daft-names/#findComment-1136185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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