'Old' names

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, if there are any particular names that you see and immediately associate with old people.

Which names, male and female, do you automatically think of as 'grandparent' names?

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[areyoustrange.livejournal.com]

Mabel, Ethel, Mildred, Barbara, Cecily. I actually can't think of any old man names.

[crzydimond.livejournal.com]

Should probably post my own too.

Pearl, Thelma, Helen [though I LOVE this name], Dorothy, Fran, Margaret [also love]

Roy [My grandfather], Albert, Edward...

[soulsplinter8.livejournal.com]

Amethyst, Doreen, Loretta, Fran, Betty, Judy, Arleen, Doris, Ellis, Marge...and most of the names already mentioned. :o)

Harold, Frank, Fred, Ernie, Al, Hank, Jim, Jerry, Burt, Joe, Earl, Henry...I'm sure there are more, but I can't think of them at the moment.

[iamsurrealism.livejournal.com]

Agnes, Agatha, and Ethel off the top of my head.

[th3-unicorn.livejournal.com]

Ida, Mildred, Ingrid, Mabel, Margaret, Isadora
I don't know why all with I and M lol

Edward, Robert, Alfred, George, Henry, Roger

[areawoman.livejournal.com]

Helen

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Clarence, Stanley, Herbert, George.
Ethel, Myrtle, Mildred, Phyllis.

[ex-bluebonn.livejournal.com]

Bertha.

[katiesthoughts.livejournal.com]

Olivia, Dorothy, Mary, Richard

[tryyingtoevolve.livejournal.com]

Melvin
Margaret
Vonda
Knute/Otto

Because those are my grandparents' names:) Hahaha. I still like Margaret, though, just as a middle name.

[godmod.livejournal.com]

My grandparents are

Beulah
Sandra
Carolyn
Fayrene

and

William
Doug
AB
Andrew

William and Andrew are the only names that are still commonly used today. All of the female names seem old to me.

[monalyssasmile.livejournal.com]

Jeanette, Jean (my grandmas), Virginia (my great grandma), Alvina (my great great grandma), Agnes, Agatha, Lois, Olive, Marge.
Marlen, Vernon (my grandpas), Harold, George (which I really like), Frank (which I also like).

[sheshellabella.livejournal.com]

Molly, but I love it.
James, but I love it.

[rubytitania.livejournal.com]

Elsie, Edna, Edith, Agnes, Doris, Dorothy, Eileen, Olive, Betty, Mary, Muriel, Beryl.

Alfred, Arthur, George, Edgar, Stan, Cedric, Harold, Walter.


My grandparents were Howard Ambrose, Elsie Myra, Walter Llewellyn and Margaret (dunno her middle name).

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

(My husband says, btw: Sophia, Dorothy, Blanche and Rose)

Hahahahahahahah!

[christhiane.livejournal.com]

Atrid, Ogla, Edel, Ingrid, Esther...

Alf, Arild, Kjell, Tor, Per, Ola, Hans, Håkon, Olav, Egil...

I'm Norwegian.

[songspell.livejournal.com]

Girls:
Gertrude
Ruth

Boys:
Harvey
Franklin

There's more, but I can't think of any...

[kimber-leigh.livejournal.com]

Lucille (my grandmother's name)

and several that have already been listed..

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Edna, Mabel, Ethel, Mildred, Gertrude, Pearl, Agnes, Ida, Phyllis, Adelaide

Herbert, Harold, Hubert, Humphrey, Arthur, Walter, Harvey

My grandparents: Adele, Bernard, Muriel, Charlie.

[juniorfan29.livejournal.com]

I've seen both of my grandmothers' names (Phyllis and Margaret), but neither of my grandfathers' so, I'd like to add Herman and Lloyd to the list.