[identity profile] gangwaygirls.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
A class list from my husband's great grandfather's school in Kentucky, circa 1897. I bolded the names I like.

Girls:

Ida
Bertie
Lovie
Ella (x 2)
Lula
Rosa
Ada
Gracie
Ora
Emma
Cora
Viola
Gladys
Mattie
Nellie (x 2)
Kate
Leia

Pearl
Alice
Alvie
Annie
Lillie
Fuby (???)
Bessie
Macy
Ethel
Lottie
Lu
Nancie
Irena
Maud

Boys:

Otho
Fred (x 2)
Robert (x 2)
Barner
Nel (short for Nelson?)
George
Hugh
Porter
Tay
Elwood
Urie (yeesh)
Houston
Earnest
Floyd
Daniel
Ollie
Jordan (surprising)
Spirlin
Lulie
Claud
Oscar
Lee

Date: 2007-10-18 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blueberrybumble.livejournal.com
Wow, some of those are really interesting!

I like Lula, Viola, Nellie, Alice, Macy, Lottie, and Jordan.

Date: 2007-10-18 09:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blue-suspenders.livejournal.com
Spirlin's kind of a neat name.

Date: 2007-10-18 09:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anapology.livejournal.com
I like

Elwood
Floyd
Oscar

Ada
Viola
Leia

Date: 2007-10-18 09:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com
I like: Ella, Rosa, Ada, Gracie, Emma, Viola, Mattie, Kate, Alie, Annie, Maud, Robert, & Porter

Date: 2007-10-18 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] djador.livejournal.com
Houston? That surprises me. I didn't know that was a name so long ago! cool.

Wow, so many of those girls names are popular still/again right now.

Very interesting post. =D

Date: 2007-10-18 10:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] farawaysong.livejournal.com
I like: Ella, Rosa, Ada, Gracie, Viola, Kate, Alice, George, Hugh, and Oscar.

Date: 2007-10-18 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] girlsteve.livejournal.com
I quite like Tay

Date: 2007-10-18 10:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluekoala.livejournal.com
Hugh, Lee, and Earnest are such great names.
I love Viola.

Date: 2007-10-18 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bluekoala.livejournal.com
I like the spelling Ernest though.

Date: 2007-10-18 11:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] th3-unicorn.livejournal.com
Spirlin makes me giggle

And I'm wondering about Lula/Lulie

Date: 2007-10-19 12:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] turn-it-upp.livejournal.com
i love: Ella, Lula, Ada, Gracie, Matie, Kate, Alice, Macy, Lottie and Hugh, Ollie, and Oscar!

Date: 2007-10-19 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] monalyssasmile.livejournal.com
I love love love Ada, it has been a top favorite of mine for 4+ years now.

Date: 2007-10-19 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] requiem-morrow.livejournal.com
There was a girl named Bunyon in my grandma's yearbook.

Date: 2007-10-19 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 0o-faerie.livejournal.com
Some of those are actually pretty! Much better than Dutch names back then, IMO 8)
I like Ida, Ella, Lula, Rosa, Emma, Kate, Otho, Porter, Hugh, Elwood & Floyd.

Also, Fuby? Reminds me of a Furby! =P

Date: 2007-10-19 03:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bohemianvegan.livejournal.com
I love lots of those old names. They are making comebacks. I like Rosa a lot. I also like (forgive me) Irena.

Date: 2007-10-19 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anaphylexis.livejournal.com
I'm a really big fan of Lula. Maybe because it's sounds a bit country-ish? It's on my list anyway.

Date: 2007-10-20 06:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kitchen-poet.livejournal.com
I have a cat named Ethel :) I think it's a great name...for a cat.

Date: 2007-10-20 07:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bobinwales.livejournal.com
The only ones I like are:
Rosa
Emma
Kate
Alice
Hugh
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