|
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQv99sEPDsw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVh2Qw5KSFg There's certainly more name diversity these days compared to 100 years ago. I don't know what's worse: a bunch of Braydens Kaydens and Aiydens or having one in five boys named John, William or James.
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 19:31
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 20:12 |
|
|
It's not William, it's Ouyll'iamn_33
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 19:37
|
|
|
canyoneer posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQv99sEPDsw Woo! Go, little James bubble! We're number 1! We're number 1! We dropped off the table for a few years there but back in 9th place in 2014.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 19:43
|
|
|
I work at a newspaper and just got a birth announcement for an Esther. The baby is not 70 years old. Why would you curse your child with the most old lady name there is?
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 20:05
|
|
|
Nostradingus posted:I work at a newspaper and just got a birth announcement for an Esther. The baby is not 70 years old. Why would you curse your child with the most old lady name there is? Esther is definitely on its way up. Old lady names are recycled that way after a hundred or so years. Look what happened to Emma, Sophia, and Olivia. Name your baby girl Myrtle or Bertha and she'll be totally ahead of the crowd.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 20:11
|
|
|
Before we found out we were having a boy, Vera was a strong contender for a girl name for us. And my wife's cousin, who is just 17, was friends with an Esther.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 20:26
|
|
|
Florida Betty posted:Esther is definitely on its way up. Old lady names are recycled that way after a hundred or so years. Look what happened to Emma, Sophia, and Olivia. Name your baby girl Myrtle or Bertha and she'll be totally ahead of the crowd. Did the number of Myrtles increase after Harry Potter or was she such an annoying character that it decreased?
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 20:27
|
|
|
Nostradingus posted:I work at a newspaper and just got a birth announcement for an Esther. The baby is not 70 years old. Why would you curse your child with the most old lady name there is? My sister is named Esther. She's in her 20s. She's named after my aunt Esther, who is dead. Why yes, we are Jewish, why do you ask? What was really weird was when I moved to the Netherlands and every other 20something was named Esther; I was so used to thinking of it as a weird name for a non-old person to have.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 21:02
|
|
|
I know a Eunice in her mid 20s. Also not a totally out there name but definitely an old lady name.
|
|
#
?
Jul 10, 2015 23:00
|
|
|
sweeperbravo posted:I know a Eunice in her mid 20s. Also not a totally out there name but definitely an old lady name. I also know a Eunice in her mid 20s. When I was a kid, almost all of the "old lady names" belonged to christian kids whose parents had emigrated from China. We also had a Beatrice, a Mavis, a Phyllis, a Beryl, and an Edwina. e: all of these women are now in their mid 20s. Also, their brothers all tended to have less outdated names (Eddie, Luke, etc.).
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 00:00
|
|
|
I think some of the old lady names are really pretty  One of my good friends is named Eleanor, though she goes by Elly or El. She and her brother Max(well) were both named after Beatles songs.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 00:07
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 01:47
|
|
|
Crow Jane posted:I think some of the old lady names are really pretty Eleanor is a nice name, but Eleanor Rigby is a pretty lovely namesake! Let me know if she dies so I can at least show up to her funeral. Maxwell and his silver hammer is nearly as bad. I'm named after lady Emma Hamilton and while I like my name I question my mum's inspiration.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 02:17
|
|
|
Shithouse Dave posted:Eleanor is a nice name, but Eleanor Rigby is a pretty lovely namesake! Let me know if she dies so I can at least show up to her funeral. Maxwell and his silver hammer is nearly as bad. Yeah, it always seemed a little odd to me as well, and she's said she wishes they'd gone with Julia. They're both fairly well-adjusted adults, though my friend did recently take up knitting in anticipation of what she's sure will be permanent spinsterhood. I'm named after Prince Valiant's wife, because my dad is the kind of super cool guy who reads Prince Valiant.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 02:30
|
|
|
As a 38-year-old Alice, I got to experience a childhood of being told I had an "old lady" name - and now my name has broken the SSA top 100, I presume because of Twilight. I guess by the time I'm an old lady myself, people will hear my name and assume I'm in my 20s, which isn't so bad, really.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 02:46
|
|
|
Istari posted:I also know a Eunice in her mid 20s. When I was a kid, almost all of the "old lady names" belonged to christian kids whose parents had emigrated from China. We also had a Beatrice, a Mavis, a Phyllis, a Beryl, and an Edwina. Yeah, the Eunice I know is Asian. Not sure if the rest of her backgorund lines up to what you said though. Crow Jane posted:I think some of the old lady names are really pretty I really like them myself. Would love to name a daughter Beatrice.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 03:01
|
|
|
sweeperbravo posted:Yeah, the Eunice I know is Asian. Not sure if the rest of her backgorund lines up to what you said though. My grandma's name was Marion, if I had a daughter I'd probably go with that.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 03:03
|
|
|
sout posted:Did the number of Myrtles increase after Harry Potter or was she such an annoying character that it decreased? You know, that didn't even occur to me. Apparently it's not in the top 1000. Neither is Hermione or Ginny, and even Harry is going downhill. Bella (Twilight) seems to have peaked, but Hazel (The Fault in Our Stars) is still on the rise. As old lady names go, I think those two are worse than Myrtle.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 03:10
|
|
|
My mother's name is Marion, and she's always hated it. She goes by Maria now. I've always loved the names Aggie, Hatty, and Penny, but don't like any of the names they're derived from (Agatha, Agnes, Harriet, Henrietta, Penelope, etc.). And on the flip side, I've always liked the names Flora and Florence, but would never use them for fear of my child being called Flo. e: Florida Betty posted:Hermione or Ginny, and even Harry is going downhill. Funny sidenote to this: my sister-in-law's cousin named her children Ron and Hermione, before the two characters got together in the books. Awkward as hell. Lady Disdain has a new favorite as of 03:40 on Jul 11, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 03:36
|
|
|
Shithouse Dave posted:Eleanor is a nice name, but Eleanor Rigby is a pretty lovely namesake! Let me know if she dies so I can at least show up to her funeral. Maxwell and his silver hammer is nearly as bad. I knew of sisters named after Guns 'n' Roses songs: November Rain and Patience. I used to life in the same city as this guy's office. I felt so sorry for his childhood. 
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 04:31
|
|
|
pookel posted:As a 38-year-old Alice, I got to experience a childhood of being told I had an "old lady" name - and now my name has broken the SSA top 100, I presume because of Twilight. I guess by the time I'm an old lady myself, people will hear my name and assume I'm in my 20s, which isn't so bad, really. Yeah, I would guess Twilight has made my name, Edward back in the limelight. Like fifty years ago it was in the top 20. By the time I was born it was pretty rare. Oh well, I can truthfully say "Yes, i was named after a monster. No, the other one." RC and Moon Pie posted:I used to life in the same city as this guy's office. I felt so sorry for his childhood. I imagine he didn't give a drat.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 05:24
|
|
|
Baronjutter posted:When I went to school it was rare for anyone to have the same name, maybe max 2 in a class. Everyone had fairly normal names, nothing insane. David's and Mike's and Trevor's and of course Jennifers and Jessicas and Kates. But people managed to name their kids in a way that there were almost no doubles. We had 2 Aarons but they were spelled the same, one wasn't loving "Eyrohn". One of the classes at my daughter's day care has two Griffins 
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 05:56
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 06:32
|
|
|
sweeperbravo posted:Yeah, the Eunice I know is Asian. Not sure if the rest of her backgorund lines up to what you said though. My cousin's four-year-old is a Beatrix.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 06:53
|
|
|
Can anyone here reasonably explain the meteoric rise of terrible -en and related names? I mean Aiden I get, but Brayden, Braelin, Calen, Jaylen, Jayden, etc.. A few have precedent like Jayden Smith I guess but where is this particular slew of bad names coming from? Is there a famous person or character from a show that I'm not aware of? Hell, I know a girl that named her baby Grady which isn't much better than the names I listed. It probably fits in the same category honestly. Someone post that picture of the pregnant lady with the whiteboard of terrible names on it like Mckhynleighe again.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 07:35
|
|
|
Snyderman posted:Someone post that picture of the pregnant lady with the whiteboard of terrible names on it like Mckhynleighe again.  The mother's name is McKinli, and little Laikynn has a brother named Titan. edit: I feel kinda bad making fun of her too much, she's clearly had kind of a rough life, according to her half dozen or so blogs. Pregnant at 17, married to an abusive rear end in a top hat at 18, divorced and remarried less than a year later. But yeah, Titan and Laikynn (lichen?). Florida Betty has a new favorite as of 08:03 on Jul 11, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 07:48
|
|
|
Baronjutter posted:We had 2 Aarons but they were spelled the same, one wasn't loving "Eyrohn". Back when I was in elementary school, we had an Erin and an Aron. Amusingly, we did not have an Aaron, so it took me a number of years to really process that Aron's parents were either big Elvis fans (his middle name was Aron spelled the same way, if I recall correctly) or just illiterate.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 08:22
|
|
|
 are you loving serious.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 21:45
|
|
|
Pipsies posted:
I thought this was a man to be pronounced Bryanog. Then I realized what name it was.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 22:09
|
|
|
must be welsh
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 22:30
|
|
|
I get that the joke is "C'Mere" but I can't get past "Cinthia" and "Kriston".  It's like a singularity of stupid names.
|
|
#
?
Jul 11, 2015 23:32
|
|
|
Pipsies posted:
I'm really hoping this is a teenager who has decided that the normally-spelt name their parents gave them is too boring, so they've just butchered it on social media (because that's what we did in high school).
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2015 01:32
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2015 01:51
|
|
|
TheKennedys posted:I get that the joke is "C'Mere" but I can't get past "Cinthia" and "Kriston". Yep that's Florida for you. And I'm not 100% sure I'm parsing that name right, is it the special snowflake version of Brianna?
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2015 05:33
|
|
|
I look at this woman and I see a lady who would make up a name like this just for the camera. stubblyhead posted:Yep that's Florida for you. And I'm not 100% sure I'm parsing that name right, is it the special snowflake version of Brianna?
|
|
#
?
Jul 12, 2015 07:07
|
|
|
|
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2015 04:51
|
|
|
I'm talking to a John Johnson right now. I'm tempted to ask what his middle name is
|
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2015 16:54
|
|
|
Opopanax posted:I'm talking to a John Johnson right now. I'm tempted to ask what his middle name is If he says works at a Wisconsin lumber mill, just hang up.
|
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2015 17:00
|
|
|
Opopanax posted:I'm talking to a John Johnson right now. I'm tempted to ask what his middle name is Does he teach a bible study class on the Book of John, because that happened to me. John Johnson and the Book of John.
|
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2015 18:39
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 24, 2024 20:12 |
|
|
Lotish posted:Does he teach a bible study class on the Book of John, because that happened to me. He was born to teach that class.
|
|
#
?
Jul 13, 2015 20:17
|
|