WHEN will Alan be a popular name once more?
Never, I suspect.
You tend to find several people with this forename when pensioners gather for recreational purposes such as crown green bowling.
Not surprisingly, it does not make the charts when today’s parents consider an identity for their new son.
It was reported last week that the 10 most popular boys’ names in 2010 were Oliver, Jack, Harry, Alfie, Charlie, Thomas, William, Joshua, George and James.
That list would not have been greatly different 100 years ago.
Alan, popular before the war and just after, does not appeal much any more and seems unlikely to do so again.
There is also something old-fashioned about the leading girls’ names last year — Olivia, Sophie, Emily, Lily, Amelia, Jessica, Ruby, Chloe, Grace and Evie.
No Alana, I see.
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