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See Ya Maureen: These Baby Names Are Apparently Going To Be Extinct Soon

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We all know someone with a name that is straight out of the 1800s but there's actually some names becoming extinct. That's right, there is a list of names that are just not being used, and honestly, thank God.

According to BabyCentre, there are 36 names that need to go, NOW. They haven't had any of these names registered on their database this year, 'cause ya know, mums like telling the online world everything.

Girls names that are ded:

  • Angela
  • Beverly
  • Carol
  • Debra
  • Diane
  • Donna
  • Doris
  • Elaine
  • Joanne
  • Maureen
  • Paula
  • Sally
  • Sandra
  • Sharon
  • Sheila
  • Tracey
  • Wendy
  • Yvonne

Boys:

  • Bertram
  • Cecil
  • Clarence
  • Clive
  • Cyril
  • Dean
  • Dennis
  • Derek
  • Duncan
  • Ernest
  • Geoffrey
  • Horace
  • Leonard
  • Malcolm
  • Nigel
  • Neville
  • Roy
  • Wayne

 

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Some of these names were pretty popular I thought? Like Sally and Wayne, but obvz not. I'm not surprised about Bertram though because I'm pretty sure this is the only Bertram who exists:

What do you reckon? Are some of these names too old school to survive?

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Emma Greenbury
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Emma is an editor and writer from Brisbane, Australia and has been living in Dublin since September 2016 after she decided warm weather and beaches were overrated. She now wears three pairs of trousers every day and loves it.

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