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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 22 Feb 06 - 07:19 AM Watch Uranus tonight ted... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Paco Rabanne Date: 22 Feb 06 - 04:58 AM 'Anus' never really took off as a christian name did it? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST,MarkS Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:28 PM Muriel - My Mrs middle name (after her mom) Jules - My late dads middle name. My middle name - dont have one. Anybody else have just a first and last name only? Mark |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:45 PM Saw an unusual one, today. I guess you'd call it Creative Spelling for a boy's name: Choyce *sigh* |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Beer Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:35 PM WOw! That's interesting Bobad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: bobad Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:30 PM I saw Gillian Apps, a member of the gold medal winning Canadian women's hockey team, being interviewed this evening. She is the grandaughter of the old-time hockey great Syl Apps, Syl being a contraction of Sylvanus, a name definitely gone out of style. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST,Ricardo Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:07 PM Porfirio has been out of style ever since Porfirio Diaz, the late and unlamented dictator of Mexico. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Firecat Date: 21 Feb 06 - 05:23 PM Regarding Little Hawk's comment in the very first post about Cora, I've just started work experience at a nursery today, and one of the little girls there (3 years old) is called Cora. We also have Maisy and Monique. As to the flower and plant names, I bet there's going to be a renaissance for Rose (if there hasn't been already), because of the Doctor Who character, and if you count variant spellings of Fern (Ferne, Fearne), that may well be popular some time due to the UK TV presenter Fearne Cotton. What I'd like to know is if Harry, Ron (or Ronald) and Hermione have increased in popularity in the wake of the Harry Potter books. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 21 Feb 06 - 04:34 PM Most flower/plant names have fallen out of favor: Lilly, Daisy, Rose, Tansy, Hyacinth, Fern The only ones that are common nowadays are Ginger and Heather. Of course Heather is way too common. So much so that there'll be a revolt against it soon and no little girl in the English-speaking world will be named Heather for the next forty years. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Wolfgang Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:45 PM Wolfgang Wolfgang |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 06 - 02:08 PM My son-in-law, in his 30s, is named Wayne. New ones in our family include Killian Kage Grayson Akira Elijah Morgan all boys:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Donuel Date: 21 Feb 06 - 01:46 PM Clitoria Wilhelmina Poindexter |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:58 PM Wasn't there a french actor called adolph maonjou or something ? I have probably totallt screwed up the spelling. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:52 PM There were a lot of Adolfs up to the 1940s. After that...it went out of style. Another famous Adolf at that time was Adolf Galland (German fighter ace) and another was Adolf Malan (British fighter ace! He was customarily called "Sailor" Malan by his squadron mates in the RAF). These 2 Adolfs nearly tangled a few times over the Channel, and they probably met after the war to reminisce about the old days. Dianavan, why would you ask if my mother's name is Sabre or Sabra????? Her name is Mary. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:50 PM There is also a Lois society in Canada. Lois is very uncommon, isn't it ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Alice Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:07 PM It is a very rare occurence that I meet another Alice, maybe once every ten years. I suppose if I lived in England it would happen more often. A person named Alice started an "Alice Study" web page, contacting women on the 'net named Alice. Alice study |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST,petr Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:48 AM no too many Adolphs anymore. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 21 Feb 06 - 11:17 AM Wayne became very common here in the 70s. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:37 AM Many members of my parents families had woderful names, Hadji(for Harold) Gaetan, Alfreda, Hattie, Sophia, Gertrude, Migus, Maxim, Edmund, and loads more. Sophia(Sophie is a back in a faddish sort of way. I hate the trend for last names for first names.. here are some common Girls ones at the moment..Mac Kenzie, Taylor, Cameron, Kenzie, Tyler. In the school where I work here the most popular names Emily Sophie Alex (boys and girls) Sarah Naimh Ellen Noah Coady I reckon you can tell when someone was born by knowing when thier name was a huge fad..like Wayne..dozens of them in the fifties.Do you know anyone under fifty who is called Wayne ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:31 AM The oddest thing is the way that Mary, which for hundreds of years was consistently by far the most common girls' name, has become so rare = I think that's true both in Engkand and the USA. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: ranger1 Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:17 AM I must come from an odd pocket, as there are a ton of Jasons around here. The most recent one being named after my other half. Other kids in the circle of acquaintances are: Sophie (2 yrs of age), Elizabeth (3 and a half), Frankie (four), and Eddie (five), Alex (six), Ben (three) and Nathaniel (five). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: katlaughing Date: 21 Feb 06 - 10:05 AM Flora Estella Priscilla Rebecca Ernest Lorenzo Delton Gardner Myron Howard The very first post reminded me of Horace and Augusta Tabor, mining baron and hsi wife in early Colorado. She was from Maine. kat |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Crystal Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:54 AM My sister is a Hazel, I'm a Rosemary, but we got those names because my parents are hippies rather than because they wanted somthing unusual! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: jonm Date: 21 Feb 06 - 09:51 AM Two generations ago included Douglas, Elsie, Lillian, Archibald, Ida and Francis. One generation included Kathleen and Cynthia. I tried to get my kids unique but not strange names - succeeded with Hazel, but Toby has just become popular again. The mother-in-law was criticised for giving her son "one of those new names" - Adam! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Flash Company Date: 21 Feb 06 - 07:05 AM Speaking as someone who came dangerously close to being named Percy,my father changed his mind on the way to the Registrar, I can't help but notice that I would not have many namesakes. Looking at some earlier posts, I do know a 14 year old Aaron(Not Jewish) and quite a lot of Joshua's, so I guess it is a case of what goes round, comes round. As no-one else has said it, yes, Woody's full name was Woodrow Wilson Guthrie. Brian(by devine intervention) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Dave Hanson Date: 21 Feb 06 - 06:54 AM Adolf, now that has been out of style for a long time, in my 59 years I've never come accross any Adolfs, except Hitler and Eichman, funny that. Woody Guthrie was definately named after Woodrow Wilson. eric |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: David C. Carter Date: 21 Feb 06 - 05:49 AM Cecelia was my mother's name,I never met anyone else with that name. Had an uncle name Horrace,another was named Wilfred.Grace seems to have gone by the way.I new a guy in Yorkshire name of Mortimer,he called himself Mort.Some names seem to have been popular depending on the reigning monarch at the time.Victoria,Albert,George etc.I heard that Woody Guthrie was named from Woodrow Wilson.Don't know how true that is though.Over here,John-Jacques,Jean-Marie--Le Pen!Now there's a lot of Kevins wandering about.Some say it's a Breton name.Most times it orriginates from the father being a Kevin Keagan fan.Thought of some more:Stanley,Nathanial,Archibald!Derrick,Enoch!I can't go on... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 21 Feb 06 - 05:35 AM Dianavan, What Jeanie said applies to Jason, Travis and Justin, all having become recently popular in UK |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: freda underhill Date: 21 Feb 06 - 05:15 AM Elsie (my mother's name) Esme (my late mother-in-law's name) Elspeth, Maud, Arthur. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Crystal Date: 21 Feb 06 - 05:09 AM Sidney is a name one finds less and less now, of my contempories I know one guy who has it as a middle name. Maude and Martha are both on the way out too! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: mooman Date: 21 Feb 06 - 04:38 AM Guest, My other name, I know and have worked with both Harriets and Florences. I like both names. Peace moo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Paul Burke Date: 21 Feb 06 - 04:13 AM Maud, Pamela, Oscar, Adolph (wonder why?), Stella, Priscilla, Hecubah, Calypso, Wilfred, Oswald, Gabriel... I expect a lot depends on popular books (all those Sams who owe their name to a Master Gamgee.. watch out for Eustace? or was he the baddie?) and actors/ film stars/ celebrities in general or the characters they play- Wendy from Peter Pan onwards (I've seen reference to it as a boy's name in the 17th century), Samanthas from Bewitched... expect a revival of that if the film takes off. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST,dianavan Date: 21 Feb 06 - 04:03 AM Cuin - I have some pretty odd nicknames in my family, too. Especially those that were nicknamed in the 30's and 40's. Like: My uncle 'Speedball' (nuthin to do with drugs), Winter who was nicknamed 'Windy' and of course, Frankie for Frances. Marlyce, Gladys, Irene, Aunt Billy whose daughter was Bobby Anne, Jules, Diel, and Percy to name a few. ...and that generation named their girls two names: Diana Lynn, Diana Ray, Patty Sue, Donna Tina, Vicki Lee, Karen Marie and so on. The boys of that group are Linden, Martin, Garner, Dennis. Names I hope have gone out of style forever: Jason, Travis and Justin. The newest generation (0-5) have names like Jane, Oliver, Bradley, Anna, Max, Abbey, Emma, ...all very traditional and somewhat sweet. BTW Littlehawk - I've been meaning to ask you; Is your mother's name Sabre or Sabra or something like that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Jeanie Date: 21 Feb 06 - 03:58 AM It's interesting that quite a lot of the names that people have listed above as having gone out of style in the United States are very popular (again) for children in Great Britain. Over the past few years, I have come across several of the following in the classes I teach here in the UK: Sophie, Henrietta, Rose, Daisy, Ruby, Jade, George, Lucy, Charlotte, Harriet, Florence. I think we will have to wait another 30 to 40 years or so before those good old 1950s names become popular again, Keith. What about Susan ? And Barry ? Bring back the Barries ! - jeanie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Keith A of Hertford Date: 21 Feb 06 - 02:34 AM I have met a few other Keiths, but they are all about my age (56) Soon we will all be gone. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: GUEST,Guest, My Other Name Date: 21 Feb 06 - 02:31 AM My non mudcat (legal) name is Harriet, which was apparently very common in the late 19th and early to mid 20th century, and now has all but disappeared. (at least in the US after the 1950s or possibly early 1960s. It may be slightly more existent in England, I think.) I really dislike it, which is why I'm signing on as a guest and not letting it associate with my Mudcat member name! I have actually looked into how to do a legal name change, but so far have not taken the plunge. Still on my mind, though. Like most people my age or older who I know with this name, I was named after an older relative named Harry. My mother's middle name is Florence, which you don't really hear anymore either. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Doug Chadwick Date: 21 Feb 06 - 02:09 AM My mother is Doris. Her sisters were Edna and Irene. You don't find many amongst today's children But her brothers were William and Charles and both of those are still going strong. DC |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: JennieG Date: 21 Feb 06 - 01:55 AM Euston Francis - that was my uncle's name. His sister's (my mother's) maiden name was Mavis Davis. Truly. She was born in 1924 when Mavis was a very popular name for girls, and my uncle was named for his father (Francis) and his father's boss(Euston). My paternal grandfather was Hiram, he had a sister named Remillion. I went to school with several other Jennifers, we are all on the slightly shady side of 50 now! Cheers JennieG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: The Fooles Troupe Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:11 AM May I suggest John -> Jaques -> Jack |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: alison Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:10 AM Gaylord, Hamble, (remember the playschool doll?) Gertrude (Gertie / Trudy) slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Severn Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:09 AM While pretty much single-handedly trying to put the name Severn on the hit parade so it can even be remembered long enough to be forgotten, had I been named after my father (rather than after a great-grandfather), my middle name would have been Everett. A few of them around in his day, but not many now. We even had a next door neighbor named Everett who had a parrot who called his name out, bringing my father up from the garden needlessly, and even me occaisionally home from a friend's place (sounding similar from a distance), thinking someone was calling us from our back porch. Damn that bird! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: SunnySister Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:08 AM You guys have mentioned some of my favorite names such as Winnifred, Zilpha, Drucilla, Cecil, Millicent, and so many others. I love old names! Some that haven't been mention are Lucy or Lucia, Dale, Wilbur, Charlotte, Georgiana, Esther, Ethel, Ruth, Deliliha (I don't know how to spell it)... so many that should, in my opinion, be brought back. One of my favorite men's names is Grayson. Once new a wonderful older man with that name and thought it was beautiful. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Elmer Fudd Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:08 AM Oh you wascals! Look no further! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Little Hawk Date: 21 Feb 06 - 12:02 AM And I don't think George Bush and his dad have done much to help the situation either... (sigh) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Little Hawk Date: 20 Feb 06 - 11:43 PM The thing I can't figure is, what happened to the name George? One of the Beatles was a George, for gosh sakes, and that's almost the last time the name was given any respect. It seems to be inconceivable for anyone to name their son George anymore. Then you've got that stupid George of the Jungle, and Curious George, for God's sake. Why? Why pick on a perfectly good name that was popular for about the last 1,000 years or more of European civilization and turn it into a label for nerds and monkeys? Well, today you know what a boy's name will be? Anything that used to be a surname. Try Tyler, Harper, Tanner, Hunter, Carver, Taylor, Archer, just pick your favorite surname and make it his first name....but DON'T call him "George"!!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Joybell Date: 20 Feb 06 - 11:36 PM Hepzibah is rare now. My mother always insisted it was her real name but it wasn't it was Doris. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Kaleea Date: 20 Feb 06 - 11:08 PM I know Doreen, George, Hortense, Dorothy, Drucilla, Winnifred, Karen & Sharon who are all about 50. Then there's my nephew, Amos who is 33. How's about Ezma, Lula Mae, Doris, Zilpha Idella--all my elder relatives! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Beer Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:39 PM How about: John Gloria Bernie Bernice Judy ''''''(My middle name Alphonse) Norman Donald Mary Leonore Leonard Richard My brothers and sisters |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: dulcimer42 Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:36 PM When I entered school in the late 40's, early 50's, there were 3 Sharons in my class, and two Karens. This was in a class of about 20 some kids. You don't hear of many Sharons any more.... except for people about my age. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 20 Feb 06 - 10:11 PM I believe the names of all the great-aunts I had on both sides of my family have been mentioned somewhere in this thread. Except Aunt Mary. I don't suppose that one will ever go out of style. |
