If you've opened up a newspaper in the past decade, you'll no doubt be aware that there are some weird baby names out there at the moment.

 

For every Tom, Dick and Harry there seem to be a dozen Bears, Apples and Blues.

 

It's no surprise then, that some names are in decline.

 

While Emmas, Olivias and Liams are dominating the registries, others are seriously suffering - and according to BabyCentre, there are 24 names that haven’t been registered by their 45 million users so far this year.

 

Girls names about to go extinct:

 

Cilla

 

Bertha

 

Cynthia

 

Janice

 

Anita

 

Marcia

 

Mildred

 

Dorothy

 

Edna

 

Bonnie

 

Cindy(Sindy)

 

Donna

 

Gail

 

Karen

 

Boys names about to go extinct:

 

Ian(Iain)

 

Frank

 

Clarence

 

Ricky

 

Edmund

 

Gus

 

Roger

 

Bertram

 

Clive

 

Roald

 

The upside to this is that if you do decide to name your baby daughter Cilla, they'll probably be the only Cilla in the room! And when you're looking at baby names, surely rarity is a good thing?