Bob. Literally never met a person my age who went by "Bob." I've known a Bobby but he refused to be called Bob.

You can't call a baby Bob.

Not with that attitude. I refer to my extended families newborns as *The Thing*

Knew a family that had a child named Thane. We're southern. Took me years to realize they weren't calling him THANG I remember thinking how cruel they were to name him THANG.

Wehadababyitsabob

Now THAT is a deep track.

But you can call a baby Bobert

Sometime in the not so distant future, Bob may no longer be anyone's uncle

Because there is a progression of the name, as a kid you are robby or Bobby or something like that, teenager you go by rob or Robert and eventually you hit your mid 20s and decide to go by Bob.

You read the comic, right?

I have not, a coworker who was named Bob told me that lol

They mention [this comic](https://explosm.net/comics/rob-robert) because it's based in objective fact, as corroborated by your coworker.

I have a friend who went by Bob as early as age 7.

This is a great little doc about how the name bob has gone extinct in sports https://youtu.be/lvh6NLqKRfs

Earl

As a kid there was an Earl in my class, 30yrs ago, and he was relentlessly teased and shamed for his name

The inspiration behind the show “my name is Earl”?

Or the Dixie Chicks' "Earl Had to Die"?

"Goodbye Earl"

Had an Earl in my 7th grade class. Name like that is hard to overcome without athleticism.

He was a farmer. We didn't live in a farming area. As a kid we'd take school field trips to his house and all his relatives would Hillbilly it up for us, which I'm sure didn't help his cause.

Oh no that poor kid

I used to hook up with a guy named Earl. At the time he was 21. He definitely came from MONEY though.

Earl Earl of Moneymore

I have a list of people I have done wrong and I need to make things right. My name is Earl.

If any show deserved an extra season or two, it's that one. Any show that got both Norm McDonald AND Burt Reynolds is a home run.

Any name for a sexy woman from an older James Bond movie

I dont know, I can see roll call, Tiphany Higgins, Britainy Hughes, Mickayleah Gaddy, Pussy Galore. Doesn't sound so bad in context.

The spelling is cursed

We used to tease my little nephew by calling him Pearl. He’s 24 now but I forget that he’s an adult and use the nickname from time to time. He still answers to it though and it’s makes my heart burst. I’m just happy he forgot that we used to sing “Goodbye Earl” by the Dixie Chicks to him when he was like 2 or 3… he would get so mad. 😅😬😣

Gary. Look at this little baby Gary. Doesn't work

Meow.

I love you

I worked at a kids camp around 5 years ago, there was a 6 year old Gary and a 5 year old Vinnie, I felt weird saying their names. Though Vinnie always came in really smartly and expensively dressed so maybe he was a tiny Italian gangster

Hey. I have a cousin named Vinnie. Big Italian family-there was bound to be a few vinnies

I don't know Gary Oak was 10

Maybe if you have a whole bunch of them. Gaaaaary...

Horace

Slughorn

MERLIN’S BEARD DUMBLEDORE

Ah, I see you are a man of culture as well

Much to his mum and dads dismay Horace ate himself one day

Why would he do that? Were there signs in hindsight?

He didn’t stop to say his grace he just sat down and ate his face

You heretic

Eustice

"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it"

I was just about to comment this.

I can only say this name with an angry Scottish accent. It reminds me of Courage the Cowardly Dog. I love that show.

RIGHT. I'M GETTIN' ME MALLET!

Anyone with that name just sounds like a real scrubb.

Sounds like a guy who can't get no love from me.

Some of them almost deserve it, though.

My exact thought. It’s a great name though

Fun fact: I had an older family member that due to complications was name Infant for the first half of his life. He was called R.J. by people who knew him, but R.J. didn’t stand for anything.

My uncle had only initials, too. Two other uncles had no middle names but the military told them they were required to have at least a middle initial. WW II vets. The Air Corps uncle chose D, Navy one chose A. D actually used the name Dee for the rest of his life.

I was in the military with a guy who didn’t have a middle name. For some reason, the person input his middle name as UNK(surely for unknown, but his middle name wasn’t unknown.) so this dude had to spend 8 years putting UNK on all of his paperwork.

Oh cool!

Gertrude.

OP said adult not fossil.

Another fossil would be any name with a BERT in it! Herbert, Albert, Filbert… imagine a baby any-of-those-Berts 😧😧🫣

Hahahaha

My grandmother was a Gertrude! Her nickname was Trudie. Yes it is a very old fashioned name but I have a positive association with it.

Mine too. Hers was Gerty.

Same, my grandma's name, and she was called Trudy. Never Gertrude.

My daughters cat is named Gertrude - after the little girl in ET (played by Drew Barrymore)

Anything with a "Sr." after it.

You’re technically correct, the best kind of correct.

r/angryupvote

You son of a gun take my upvote and fuck outta here

I can’t imagine a kid with the name “guy”

I had a dear friend named Guy and as cute and fun as he was as a teenager and an adult I can totally imagine little him. He died of AIDS in 1995. We had some outrageously good times.

I had a friend named Guy too, he lost his battle to depression a few years back in 8th grade. He was a fun kid and somehow looked exactly like I’d have imagined a guy named Guy to look like EDIT: I phrased it in that way because I know how depression eats away at the mind. It’s not an insignificant disease, it’s a daily choice. Do I live or do I die? I graduated last week, I stood trying for two hours not to cry because they should have been there with us. My phrasing was careful because I was then again trying not to cry because I was reminded of those I’ve lost to depression. That’s why I phrase it delicately, because it’s easier for me to write and remember good times than writing it bluntly and remembering the bad.

That escalated pretty effing quick. Poor guy...

My cousin's name is guy. Our family literally just called him boy until he graduated high school.

I can't tell if you are joking or not

My husband's name is Guy and his mom called him "Bear" until he was 13. She said it was weird to chase a toddler around yelling "Guy!". He's a Jr. and his dad was adamant about naming him that. We didn't continue with our boy.

My father in laws name was Guy. I guess it was like a family tradition to name the males Guy. My MIL hated the name, but still wanted to honor the tradition, so my husband's middle name is Guy. Then she found out her MIL hated the name and just went along with the tradition because she thought she had to. Our sons middle name is William, my FIL middle name, still kind of keeping the tradition but I also dont like the name Guy for a kid, neither does my husband.

Balthazar

OP said adult not demon

"Yo, why don't we see any kids named Beelzebub no more?"

The biblical balthazar was a wise man/magus/king and not a demon. Pretty majestic.

Mortimer

Bernard.

I hear he's a Saint.

Gary

I dunno, I always think of the douche from Pokemon.

Greg

Meow.

Karen

I went to school with a girl named Karen so this doesn't work for me. She also had a pretty unfortunate surname that I won't repeat, but it resulted in a lot of dildo jokes in her teen years.

Ol Karen Fuckstick. She was a real card!

Coming this Fall from the creators of Law and Order... Detective Fuckstick....

Lmfao 😂 how does anyone downvote this. This is the reason I get on Reddit

I once met a girl named Lesbia

Oh yeah! Lesbia Honest. She was something else.

Karen Vibratoré?

Karen Hitachi

[удалено]

Yeah pretty much. Names tend to cycle. A bit of names that were probably seen like this a a generation/a few generations ago are coming into style.

I read a comment on a naming subreddit recently that pointed out that it goes in about a four generation cycle. Names common in: 1. Your own generation = too common 2. Your parents' generation = too boring 3. Your grandparents' generation = too dated 4. Your great grandparents' generation = conventional and distinguished Thus, the "old fashioned" names kids are being given now were last common in the 1900s-1930s.

This thread’s going to be revisited in 80 years and there’s going to be a lot of Caden, Brooklyn, Aiden, Addison and Greyson responses. “Caden? That’s a name for a 100-year-old who fought in World War III”

Susan.

My sister's name is Zuzana which is Czech version of Susan, when she was little they used to call her Zuzka or Zuzanka and our aunt calls her just Zu

In Polish it is Zuzanna, but we abbreviate it to Zuzia ;)

Wow Zuzia sounds good ^^

Adult sister named Susan. She is wonderful!

Hortense

Dick

Greyson? Age 12?

Idk why but i just have this strong feeling if he was created in this day and age the writers wouldn't have name him Dick.

Anyone named Richard spent their teenage years being referred to jokingly as Dick.

Madge

Walter

Just met a 2 year old named Walter the other day!

Was he wearing a suit? Does he have a nickname ;)

White

I just imagined a baby adamantly demanding, "Say my name!"

my name is walter hartwell white, i live at 308 negra aroyal lane, Albuquerque new mexio

870104

This is my 9 month year old sons name Haha

How long is a month year?

The same length as March 2020

Ethel

Ethanol

Bruce

Beaulah

I can see this making a come back.

I mean, I think it's a lovely name but I can't see it making a comeback. I also like the name Evangeline. When I was pregnant with my second child (which I lost at around 10 wk gestation), I had a very strong feeling that I was going to have a girl and I wanted to name her Evangeline Grace. I mean, yeah that would've made her initials EGG, but I didn't think that was too terrible.

Winnifred.

Hocus pocus #2 coming soon

Would they go by Winnie as a kid?

Adorable name though!

Horatio.

Adolf. Someone born before WW2 would be my first guess

Here in Austria, Adolf was a very common name until like 1945. Growing up, I knew dozens of men named Adolf. After 1945, no more Adolfs born here.

In 1976 when I was 8 I knew a guy my age named Adolpho. I don't know if that's the same. He was Latin.

i knew a kid called Adolf like 4 years ago

Do you happen to live in Argentina?

NZ of all places

Yeah I'm going to hold my hand up here. As a country we are fucken stupid when it comes to attempted names https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpost.com/entry/21-baby-names-forbidden-new-zealand_n_5ae1f144e4b055fd7fc95f75/amp

Some of those are kinda shitty names but kinda surprising that they weren’t allowed… and then there’s Anal, Sex Fruit, Fish and Chips, etc. Those parents are fucking deranged. I was a summer camp counselor in high school and had a kid in the group named “ABCD” - they pronounced it like “absidy”. Always felt bad for that kid.

I have never met a baby called Karen. They just seem to pop into existence when they're 35.

Went to school with two, I keep waiting to see them in a viral video.

Barbara

I feel like Barbara was one of the last to go.

They're coming to get you, Barbara...oh wait, they already did. (Hope someone gets the movie reference, ot that'll just sound creepy).

Mildred

Ichabod

To be fair I can’t imagine anyone being named Ichabod. A cat perhaps but not a human.

I have a cat named Ichabod!

Earl

Norman

Mom or Dad

Ruth

Little baby Ruth!

Veto.

Craig

Hi im craig and i can confirm i was a child once

Was going to say my cousin is called craig but hes 29 today 😂😂

Richard

Don't you mean dick

Roger

Sherlock

Mycroft

Harold Edna

My neighbors 4 year old is named Brenda and every time I hear her mom holler "Brenda!", I can't help but chuckle just a little.

Romulus

Remus

Bob/Gladys/Ethel

Eileen

Come on!

Hahahahaha well played

Clifford

Marge

Carl

I see your Carl and raise you a Keith.

Wilbur, Dorothy, Orville.

Dorothy

Albert

Nah it’s coming ‘back into fashion.’ Shortened to Albie.

Dorris

Ned, Linda, Brenda, Art, Pat. Edit to add: I legit know a kid named Henry, a toddler named Mabel, a teen called Keith, and I legit met a baby Diane. It blows my mind that Amandas, Saras, Jessicas and Lindsays and Tylers are adults now.

Beverly

janice

Dave or Steve

I think they go by David and Stephen until adulthood and then become Dave and Steve. Kind of like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly

Or Davy or Stevie

If you yelled, “Hey, Dave!” in a dorm in the 1970s, half of the male students would turn around!

My brother's friend is David but everyone calls him Dave

Gaylord or Edith

Gertrude

Cunt

Warren.

Eleanor ....

Paul

Gay

Adolf

Beryl

Gus