During the summer, my mum’s friend was telling my mum a list of names that were being considered for her soon-to-be-born grandson. [name]One[/name] of the names was [name]Stanley[/name], and her reaction to that was “it’s ugly and so old-fashioned.” It got me thinking, while old-fashioned names are back in fashion at the moment, what sort of names are we going to end up finding our grandchildren being named? By the 100 year rule it ought to be names that were popular around the time of the second world war, but then what about other trends such as surname names or crossing genders?
[name]One[/name] thought is that maybe overly long, princessy names will give way to short and simple one syllable names rising up - [name]Beth[/name], [name]Anne[/name], [name]Kate[/name] - already nicknames of popular longer names and with the British nickname trend in vogue, admittedly more cutesy names such as [name]Evie[/name], [name]Ellie[/name] and [name]Pippa[/name] - it doesn’t seem too far-fetched for a decade or two down the line.