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Names that have fallen out of fashion

  • 17-02-2023 11:45pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭Filmer Paradise


    When was the last time you saw a baby Pascal or a baby Nancy?

    Over to you...



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Or an Eamonn… there was a religious, almost extremist I guess living near us growing up… everyone referred to him as Amen.…you literally hear no young fellas now called Eamonn.

    a friend of the family was called Wincie or Wincy I’m not sure of the spelling but that was short for Wincelot. 51,868th popular name of all time according to google. 😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,562 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Not the sort of thing which can be judged by what people observe locally. The CSO keep national records, and they show that Nancy is more common in recent years than back in the day. Pascal and Paschal have been out of favour since the 1980's.

    https://visual.cso.ie/?body=entity/babynames



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,871 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Attracta

    Assumpta

    Mary

    Joseph

    John Paul

    Bridget

    Margaret

    Denis

    Philip

    Martin


    Now it's all celebrity or obscure Irish names, bar a few old ones like Jack and Molly.

    *Hoping my name doesn't appear



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,425 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    Not too many Myrtles around these days. Pity



  • Registered Users Posts: 932 ✭✭✭snowstorm445


    Had this discussion with someone the other day, there are names that are solidly "elderly" and ones which are much more "middle-aged". I can't picture anyone named "Martina" for example who's younger than 40 but older than 65. Not sure about the male names though - maybe Alan or Derek?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Enoch.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,650 ✭✭✭✭BorneTobyWilde


    Karen, that name is simply not given anymore 😅😅



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,407 ✭✭✭AyeGer


    I don't see many people under 40 called Mark or Andrew or Peter. Definately not many young Mary's or Bridget's about either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 609 ✭✭✭rubberdungeon


    Kathleen

    Edith

    Veronica

    Gobnait


    Richard

    Gerard

    Raymond

    Bernard



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭PeteEd


    Mervyn's are now critically endangered according to David Attenborough.

    Climate change is a ruthless master that shows dodo-esque disregard to Polar Bears and Mervyn's that hungry 17th century sailors would be proud of!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Quintan



  • Registered Users Posts: 855 ✭✭✭moonage


    I've always liked Fanny.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 127 ✭✭dublingirl83


    eugene



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,367 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Agnes. I actually knew four Agnes (Agni?) over my life but they were all really old.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,636 ✭✭✭✭whisky_galore


    Gladys

    Tadgh

    Most what were thought of as saint's names are getting rare.

    Peter, Bridie/Bridget, Mary, Simon, Thomas, etc

    Weirdly for a once hyper Catholic country, Jesus never became a name unlike in Hispanic countries



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,209 ✭✭✭scotchy


    Adolf


    .

    💙 💛 💙 💛 💙 💛



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I wonder was there male baby born last week on the 14th named Valantine it was a not uncommon name in Ireland at one stage. I was in an old graveyard in Tippeary one time and all the males seemed to be named Corneilus, Charles and Jerrmiah.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭10-10-20


    Aquinas and Aloysius. Used to be found back in the 40's.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,445 ✭✭✭NSAman


    Ulick



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,789 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    Nobody has posted 'Nigel' yet???? Surely one of the most old fashioned names there is. Is there a Nigel under 50 in Ireland?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭Hippodrome Song Owl


    I think it's really interesting to see names that were so common in the 80s are really dying out. My primary school class was full of Jennifers, Fionas, Julies, Lindas, and Claires. There were fewer than 20 babies named each of these in the 2021 statistics.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 418 ✭✭Manc-Red_


    Suppose Karen is now a no-no for girls?

    Better Born Lucky Than Rich.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,925 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Pronsious ? Ambrose , Attracta , Bridgid Bridge

    Taidg? Colin.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 573 ✭✭✭fortwilliam


    Farquar...



  • Registered Users Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭Francis McM


    Shove on



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,731 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Anoyone called Jack or Charles/Charlie is likely to be either over 60 or under 15.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 115 ✭✭cazwhatever


    Same with girls names like Jessica, Rebecca, Lorraine, Michelle. My school was full of them & you wouldn't hear of anyone naming their baby that now



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭deirdremf




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭Strumms


    Phyllis….the mother has a cousin Phyllis but she’s literally the only one I know first hand, never encountered one anywhere else. Don’t think I’ve met anyone or even heard of anybody in mine or surrounding generations called Phyllis…but I’m aware of a couple of others from way back….



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,302 ✭✭✭paul71


    ????


    The reverse is true.

    Jack is currently the most popular baby name in Ireland. It was pretty rare 50 years ago.


    What is becoming rare is Patrick, 19th on the boys list in 2021.





  • I think there's a lot more variety of names around now than there used to be, but every era has its fads.

    The 2022 names are mostly fairly bland though:

    Fiadh, Grace, Emily, Sophie and Éabha, Lucy, Mia, Ava, Lily and Ella

    Jack, Noah, James, Conor and Rían, Liam, Charlie, Daniel, Cillian and Tadhg



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,717 ✭✭✭YFlyer


    Don't heard anyone called Harold now.



  • Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭Bluebell woods


    Dympna ,Sally …?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭moceri


    Nelly

    Agnes

    Maude

    Tristram

    Jacinta

    Ethel

    Molly



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,562 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    Jack as a nickname for someone called John would have been common enough. But there is a trend in more recent years for those sorts of nicknames to become given names. There were no Johnnys, Joes or Maggies on birth certs in the old days, but they are around now, along with many more examples.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭winston82


    Keith - I don’t think anyone looks at a newborn and says “yea, that’s deffo a Keith”



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,141 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,141 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Gary

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,459 ✭✭✭Riddle101


    Male

    Ted

    George

    Henry

    Female

    Kelly

    Olivia

    Mixed

    Terry/Teri



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,076 ✭✭✭Pauliedragon


    Thank **** mine seems to be on the way out. Up until about 10 tears ago every place I worked or socialised had multiples of us. It was a nightmare.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,141 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,731 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    Royal names are always going to be recycled traditional ones. You're not going to get a Tyler or a Hunter or a Hayleigh.

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    Yes, names which us mid lifers don’t consider ‘old’, unlike Edith, Doris, Betty etc are in fact old people’s names to the youngsters these days. Hard to accept we’re now the ‘oul wans’.



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,059 ✭✭✭hamburgham


    I can’t stand the posh/ aspirational English ones, Sophie, Olivia, Emily.

    Post edited by Boards.ie: Mike on


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Haven't heard of a Martina for a while. Love that name tho. Everybody knows a sexy Irish Martina!

    I like good standard strong names but also pretty flower type names ☺️

    I don't like names that are too American like Cole or Brandon or Kaylen.



  • Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭Qaanaaq


    Fidelma

    Finnbar

    bertie

    Kevin

    Nora

    Ronnie

    Frank

    Alan

    Garett



  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I thought I had posted here yesterday, but can't find it now.

    Dympna, Cynthia, Stephanie, Bláthnaid, Jacinta, Geraldine, Carla, Monica, Patricia, Eoin, Oscar, Richard, Susan, Janet, etc. I had a few more, but these will do until I remember the rest.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Jennifer, Allison, Phillipa, Sue, Debra, Anna-Belle too...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,272 ✭✭✭saabsaab


    Myles and Julian.



  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Sandra, Mary, but not Jessica..



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