Picking a name for your baby is tough work. Inspiration is everywhere and competition for certain names is fierce.
But it seems some names are so unloved, they might be on the verge of dying out completely.
BabyCentre compiled a list of the most unpopular names list by analysing baby name registration data, looking for once-popular names that hadn’t been registered at all this year.
It seems Angela’s and Bertam’s are definitely on the way out, along with a handful of other, slightly old-fashioned names.
Without further ado, here is the list of unpopular baby names for 2016:
Girls’ names people don’t love any more
Angela
Beverley
Carol
Debra
Diane
Donna
Doris
Elaine
Joanne
Maureen
Paula
Sally
Sandra
Sharon
Sheila
Tracey
Wendy
Yvonne
Boys’ names people are disliking lately
Bertram
Cecil
Clarence
Clive
Cyril
Dean
Dennis
Derek
Duncan
Ernest
Geoffrey
Horace
Leonard
Malcolm
Neville
Nigel
Roy
Wayne
