Posted on 02/03/2011 12:49:03 PM PST by Alex Murphy
The worst of the worst are “Destiny,” “Trinity” and “Chastity.” Mostly found in the white trash ghettos, born to chain smoking tattooed 18 year old tramps.
Bob (Robert) has gone from 4 in 1958 to 49 in 2008. Another example of the secularization of America...just not as many folks named after Saint Bob as there used to be.
The Top 5 male names in 2008? Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. Not a good biblical name in the bunch...
Pop cultural, to some degree. Gertrude Stein, Maude (Bea Arthur as a nasty liberal) and Irene (Ryan, Granny of Beverly Hillbillies fame.)
I had an aunt who was born in 1910, and her first & middle names were Eunice Estelle. By the time she was old, she was able to laugh about it...
stayathomemom, one of my great-grandmothers was a Mary Lenore.
All got biblical names. Hers is the only New Testament name in the bunch.
Cute. All five of my kids have simple, Biblical names. Two are named Mary and Joseph. And yes, I’m serious.
I actually know a woman named Candy Cain.
My husband says she didn't mind. Besides, I had decided I wanted to use the name Lenore for a daughter was I was a young girl. However, my oldest daughter has my mother's name for a first name, so we used the derivation of my MIL's name twice! At which point, my mother said, "I think you should take credit for something." So my younger daughter has two middle names, the first is a derivation of my middle name and the second is Lenore.
Certain names just get tagged as “old” for some reason, and once it starts, it snowballs downward.
“Mary” is clearly beginning that slide - it’s not to Gertrude or Thelma levels, yet, though.
“Mary” is too simple and pleasant-sounding a name to ever fall as far out of fashion as Gertrude or Thelma. My daughter Mary (b. 2002) has several classmates at her Catholic school with the same name or a variation (Marion, Maryanne).
My Mom’s first name was Irene; my wife’s middle name is Irene, too! So it was natural to use Irene for our first daughter — Michelle Irene. My sister got “Lenore” for a middle name. But we couldn’t find a way to use “Gertrude” — it just doesn’t roll off the tongue nicely.
Yet one more indelible seal ...personally I think the only seal that matters is the seal of the Holy Spirit when I was saved
Some older names make a comeback, like Hannah and Abigail. I didn’t know any girls with those names when I was in high school (91-95). Now they are in the top 10.
What the article doesn’t mention is variations of Mary - Marissa, Moira, Marie, Mariah, Maria, Marianne, or Maureen. Some of those are still quite popular.
Funny that Maud sounds old but Mod sounds futuristic, yet they sound the same. Names sometimes return. Lots of people now use Grace, Olive, Violet - names that would not have been used 20 years ago.
Molly is also a celtic variation on Mary.
Some of the names I see in the paper lately look like their parents just tipped over a scrabble board and picked up the first four or five tiles and tried to put them into some kind of order.
Elizabeth and Christine here.....good, classic names.
I have one of those, too. ;)
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