Does your name feature?
According to contributors to the
Essential Baby Forum, there are some baby names which will become 'extinct' over the next two generations.
The research, features on
Mail Online and is reinforced by figures from the NSW Government
Popular Baby Name website, an online source that shows how the popularity of certain names have changed since 1900.
Below are the boys and girls names that are said to be declining in popularity in recent years but we're taking this with a pinch of salt seeing as a lot of familiar monikers feature.
Girls
- Amanda
- Angela
- Daniella
- Donna
- Fiona
- Jennifer
- Jessica
- Joanne
- Melanie
- Michelle
- Sarah
Boys
- Adam
- Brendan
- Damien
- Gary
- Jason
- Mark
- Michael
- Matt
- Scott
- Stuart
- Ross
On home shores, information released from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) features names that were once very popular but have declined in recent years.
To compile the list, the CSO looked at names that were very popular in 1964 but have since lost their shine, so to speak.
Ideal if you're Michael, Anna or Thomas as these three are still going strong forty odd years later.
Below are the names that were big back in 1964 - not so much in 2014.
Imelda
Brenda
Bridgid
Bartholomew
Carmel
Dolores
Fergus
Nuala
Ronald
Ursula
Cornelius
Eugene
Kenneth
Trevor
Noreen
Theresa
Bernadette
Frances
Desmond
Dorothy
Philomena
Terence
Maurice
Eileen
Sharon
Audrey
