Help! Dorothy, Edna, Fred and Walter are all in danger

Help! Dorothy, Edna, Fred and Walter are all in danger - Telegraph

Some traditional names are at risk while others are still popular

Actress Lucy Liu Photo: GETTY IMAGES

By Claire Duffin

‘Extinct’ names (None recorded in latest birth records)

Fanny

Gertrude

Gladys

Margery

Marjorie

Muriel

Cecil

^{Cecil Rhodes}

Rowland

Willie

Bertha

Blodwen

Endangered (have fallen in prevalence by 99% since 1905)

Clifford

Horace

Harold

Leslie

Norman

Doris

^{Doris Day}

Edna

Ethel

Hilda

Marion

^{Marion Cotillard}

Phyllis

At risk names (have fallen in prevalence by 98% since 1905)

Arnold

^{Arnold Schwarzenegger:}

Bernard

Clarence

Cyril

Ernest

Fred

^{Fred Astaire}

Herbert

Percy

Roland

Sydney

Trevor

Walter.

Ann

Dorothy

Eveline

Freda

Gwendoline

Irene

Jane

^{Jane Fonda}

Janet

Jennie

Lilian

Lizzie

Margaret

^{Margaret Thatcher}

Mary

Maud

Mildred

Nellie

Rhoda

Winifred

Booming traditional names

Christopher

Harry

Sam

Samuel

Louis

Evan

^{Evan Rachel Wood}

Michael

Reuben

Benjamin

Matthew

Lewis

Owen

^{Owen Wilson}

Louie

Alexander

Daniel

Isaac

Jacob

Charlie

Oliver

Jack

^{Jack Whitehall}

Amelia

Charlotte

Daisy

Eleanor

Eliza

^{Eliza Doolittle}

Emily

Eva

Grace

Harriet

Isabel

Isabella

^{Isabella Rossellini}

Leah

Lucy