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Thread #88987 Message #1705368
Posted By: JohnInKansas
29-Mar-06 - 02:00 AM
Thread Name: BS: Names that have gone out of style...
Subject: RE: BS: Names that have gone out of style...
Most of the names cited as "out of favor" still seem to be reasonably common in my area, but then we are a century or two behind the rest of the world.
A very common name ca. 1940 for girls was Enola, but that lasted only a few (war) years. It might be popular again someday(?).
For unusual(?), it would be difficult to beat my Great Grandmother Berthsheba Elianor. I doubt that either of those shows up very often, and I doubt if either of them will pop up on newborns anytime soon.
The family does include one Geneva and one Radine, neither of which - so far as I know - was ever very common.