The most unpopular baby names of 2017

While many parents-to-be might want to avoid choosing a baby name that’s too common, they might also feel a bit aggrieved if the moniker that they’ve picked for their newborn makes the least popular list.

Parenting site BabyCentre has released its list of this year’s most unloved baby names that haven’t been registered on their database so far in 2017, putting them well and truly on the endangered baby names list.

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A total of 24 baby names appear on the vetoed list; 14 girls’ names and 10 boys’ names.

Though 80s fashion has been having a reboot, the same can’t be said for some of the decades most popular monikers with Ian, Donna and Karen not making a single birth certificate.

When it comes to girls Edna, Bertha and Bonnie were some of the biggest female no no’s, whereas Bertram, Clarence and Clive all topped the boys no-go list.

Other girls’ names that have fallen out of favour with parents-to-be include Dorothy, Cynthia and Mildren, while Edmund, Gus, Roger and Ricky are all proving a hard name sell.

Despite being made famous by supermodel Cindy Crawford, the name has plummeted in popularity, slipping into fifth place on the unpopular list.

Similarly Frank was the sixth most unpopular boys name on the list, despite having once making the top ten in the most popular list between the 1880s and 1920s.

Most unpopular girls names

Cilla
Bertha
Cynthia
Janice
Anita
Marcia
Mildred
Dorothy
Edna
Bonnie
Cindy (Sindy)
Donna
Gail
Karen

Most unpopular boys names

Ian (Iain)
Frank
Clarence
Ricky
Edmund
Gus
Roger
Bertram
Clive
Roald

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