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Choosing baby names can be a thorny task.

We've all had to stifle a laugh when a mate proudly announces their new bundle of joy has a frankly daft moniker - No offence intended to any Monicas out there.

Anyway someone with plenty of time on their hands has been looking which names parents are staying well clear of.

Cilla, for example.

Instead, parents prefer the name Olivia, which has regained its status as the most popular name for girls, having been the top baby name between 2008 and 2010.

The name came out top in Wales, and five out of nine regions across England.

Meanwhile, Oliver was the most popular baby name for boys in six regions in England, as well as in Wales.

The statistics are based on names first recorded at live births which occurred over 12 months.

Some 64,000 different names were given in 2016.

So, which names are dying out?

A total of 24 baby names appear on the endangered list, compiled by Baby Centre .

The "endangered list" are being cast aside by the thousands of BabyCentre parents who have already welcomed babies this year.

Parents are shying away from baby names made popular in the 1980s, leaving the likes of Ian, Donna and Karen out in the cold without a single registration between them.

And if you’re having a baby this year and choose the name Frank, Dorothy or Ricky, then you might just be pulling those names back from the brink of extinction, too.

BabyCentre has identified 24 names that haven’t been registered in our database so far in 2017, meaning they are well and truly on the endangered baby names list and could disappear from our chart completely.

Check out 2017’s endangered names list in full:

Girls

Cilla

Bertha

Cynthia

Janice

Anita

Marcia

Mildred

Dorothy

Edna

Bonnie

Cindy (Sindy)

Donna

Gail

Karen

Boys

Ian (Iain)

Frank

Clarence

Ricky

Edmund

Gus

Roger

Bertram

Clive

Roald