We’re not all Bobs, but good luck with that anyway! 
Oh, mine will be a Bob, I’ll make sure of that.
My name is Kurt, which apparently peaked about 15 years before I was born (I was born in '73). According to the Baby Name Wizard, no one names their son Kurt anymore. C’mon! No fans of Kurt Vonnegut? Kurt Warner? Kurt Waldheim? The name Curt, however, is hanging on. What kind of a weenie Kurt spells his name with a C? The letter C doesn’t even have it’s own sound! It has to borrow a sound from K or S! Pfft!
However, I do have to admit that I enjoyed it when my coworkers at a former job came up with a slogan for me: “Kurt: It’s not just my name. It’s my attitude!” I admit that would have worked better if my name were Curt. Still makes me smile, though.
Anyway, my mom is named Lorna, which I think is a fine name. It had a respectable following in the 30s, 40s, and 50s but seems to have vanished. That’s too bad.
ETA: Also, I had an uncle named Cyril. It was decently represented in the first half of the 20th Century but seems to have died out.
I have a twin. My name is Karen, hers is Virginia. She told me recently that her name is now more popular than mine. While this isn’t entirely true, it’s a hell of a lot closer than when we were born. Back then it was like having twins named Nevaeh and Muriel or something.
Yeah, Karen isn’t a classic.
Wow, huge decline in newborns named Katrina since 2005, according to that site. Wonder what that’s about.
When I was in school, Linda, Karen, Jan, Kim, Jill and Diana were very popular. It seemed every school had a lot of girls with those names. Dave, Mike, Tim and Jim were very popular for boys names.
I liked having Mark 'cause no one in my school ever had that name. It was pretty unusual. Oddly though in one job there were FIVE Marks (all spelled with a “k” too).
I teach preschool part-time, and I’ve had a Stella, two Eleanors and a couple of Joes over the years.
I had a Michelle this year.
Julia seems to be popular again, as does Frances.
Ava is another one.
Born in the South. Tennessee even. I was one of 7 Lisa’s in one class.
Every Lisa I’ve met as an adult is right around my age.
Thanks Elvis.
My name - Carol - peaked at #4 in 1941, and dropped out of the top 1000 in 2007/2008. Caroline is still going strong, so there’s hope for us yet.
My Grandparents were named(I’m 30):
Eugene and Mildred
and
Gwendolyne(pronounced Gwen- Doe-Lynn-Eee) and Walter
Walter is probably the most common name now, but Mildred was popular in 1918, when my Grandma was born.
Cheryl?
Cindy?
Graduated HS in 1975. Four, count them 4, Marks in one Science class. Teacher put us in the corners and called us by directions. I was west Mark. Whatever works.
It’s not from my youth, but the neighbor who died this week was called Bernardina. You don’t hear Bernardo much these days, either.
In Spain there was a huge change in the 60s, people suddenly stopped being saddled with the saint on whose feast they were born or baptised and either having to make do with it or finding out about it on the first day of their military service, as the whole family called them by the name the mother liked. So for me (born in '68) the common names are those of the most popular saints: you can take a good bet where someone is from if they happen to have a specific name. Ignacio called Iñaki? Navarra or Basque Country. Ignacio called Nacho? Probably neither Navarra nor Basque Country, but probably studied at the Jesuits like his Pa and his Grandpa and… Jorge or Jordi? Put your money on Catalonia. Salva? Valencia. Pilar, Pili? Aragon. Mariluz? Cuenca. Macarena? Seville (or the family lives in Madrid but they’re from Seville). Rocío (Dew)? Huelva.
Those kinds of names are still popular, after all even when people choose the name of a TV character or favourite singer that name is more likely to be Miguel or Alberto than Eufrasio or Abilio; what’s changed is the “fringe” names. Nowadays you’re more likely to run into a Jennifer or Yenifer than a Bernardina… or Eufrasio… or Abilio (son of Abilio son of Abilio, not the Abilio son of Miguel son of Abilio - why yeah, the name runs in the family, why do you ask?).
I had two classmates whose mothers should’a lost custody on grounds of their naming… two sisters go and marry two brothers; they deliver two healthy boys less than 48 hours apart and give them the same name. One had lighter hair than the other, so they were Miguel Dark and Miguel Blonde.
I guess mom and dad were behind the power curve. My given name (Nancy) was in the top 10 from 1935 to 1955 then began to slowly fall into obscurity. I was born in 1959. <sigh>
I have a son, a brother, and a grandfather named Robert. None of them go by “Bob,” though. According to my brother, “Bob” is a name for a used car salesman or a telemarketer or a televangelist. Not for a grown man working in a respectable profession. “Rob,” “Robert,” or even “Bobby” for a grown man, but not “Bob.” (For the record, my grandfather went by his initials, my brother uses “Rob,” and my son is known by his first name, instead of the middle “Robert.”)
My own name is a very traditional, non-trendy one. I’ve never hated it, and actually kind of love my first name: It’s not weird, but there aren’t many women my age who share my name. I like that. (And “Rachel Elizabeth” sounds dignified. It won’t sound too young when I’m older, either. I think it’s a very nice name.) It wasn’t a terribly popular name when I was born 40 years ago, but it has enjoyed a bit of a surge in popularity lately.
And Ruby? My 8-year-old daughter’s middle name is Nancy. I had to name her that, given that both of her grandmothers were named Nancy, along with my mother’s grandmother and her grandmother. The first name took some creativity, but “Alana” is a nice, traditional, not-too-common first name which also reflected my brother’s middle name (Alan) and our Irish/German heritage.
There was a slight spike in Katrina in 2005 and then it steadily dropped to almost nothing.
I used to know someone named Colleen. She said it was somewhat rare; when she was a kid at places like Disneyland, where the shops have all the little signs and such that are personalized with kids names, she could never find anything. I figured she had to be kidding. “Colleen” is hardly an exotic name. But I’ve looked a few times since then, and I’ve never found it either.
On that SSA website, it barely cracked the top 100 for a few years in the mid-60’s. It’s down to 896th for 2006, and dropping fast.
The easy way to remember Frances/Francis is
hEr -> francEs
hIm -> francis
Never met a single person named Henry in my entire life. Not a young man, not an old man, not a baby. Nobody. My grandfather had a brother named Henry who died two years ago; I never met him.
If my daughter had been a boy, she would have been Henry, after my father and grandfather. Grandpa was named Henry Grady, after the southern journalist, and I attended the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. I didn’t realize that it was such an uncommon name.