{"id":21247,"date":"2017-04-07T09:27:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T08:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21247"},"modified":"2017-04-07T09:27:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T08:27:01","slug":"36-once-popular-names-that-have-fallen-very-much-out-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=21247","title":{"rendered":"36 once-popular names that have fallen very much out fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online resource BabyCentre has compiled a list of 36 once-popular names that are yet to be registered on its database in 2017. Of course, this is not a statistically accurate sample of the whole baby population in the UK, but it&#8217;s probably quite a good indication of some broad trends. These are the names that they believe have fallen out of favour:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angela<\/li>\n<li>Bertram<\/li>\n<li>Beverley<\/li>\n<li>Cecil<\/li>\n<li>Carol<\/li>\n<li>Clarence<\/li>\n<li>Clive<\/li>\n<li>Cyril<\/li>\n<li>Debra<\/li>\n<li>Diane<\/li>\n<li>Donna<\/li>\n<li>Dean<\/li>\n<li>Doris<\/li>\n<li>Dennis<\/li>\n<li>Derek<\/li>\n<li>Duncan<\/li>\n<li>Elaine<\/li>\n<li>Ernest<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey<\/li>\n<li>Horace<\/li>\n<li>Joanne<\/li>\n<li>Leonard<\/li>\n<li>Maureen<\/li>\n<li>Malcolm<\/li>\n<li>Nigel<\/li>\n<li>Neville<\/li>\n<li>Paula<\/li>\n<li>Roy<\/li>\n<li>Sally<\/li>\n<li>Sandra<\/li>\n<li>Sharon<\/li>\n<li>Sheila<\/li>\n<li>Tracey<\/li>\n<li>Wendy<\/li>\n<li>Yvonne<\/li>\n<li>Wayne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m fascinated by naming practices around the world and you&#8217;ll find my essay on the subject &#8211; with lots of information on Britain and many other countries &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/useofnames.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online resource BabyCentre has compiled a list of 36 once-popular names that are yet to be registered on its database in 2017. Of course, this is not a statistically accurate sample of the whole baby population in the UK, but it&#8217;s probably quite a good indication of some broad trends. These are the names that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21247"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21250,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21247\/revisions\/21250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}