Old-fashioned names.

[the-good-ship.livejournal.com]

Saw this on the MSN UK front page.

What it's saying is pretty obvious - as naming trends change and time goes by, certain names that have become old-fashioned will fall out of use as the older generations die out - but I wanted to get your opinions on the names listed.

Boys' Names	% Decline in popularity since 1907	Girls' Names	% Decline in popularity since 1907
Norman	99.857%	Gertrude	100.000%
Walter	99.436%	Edna	99.831%
Percy	99.377%	Ethel	99.703%
Harold	99.272%	Irene	98.174%
Ernest	97.816%	Ada	98.120%
Herbert	97.784%	Norah	97.787%
Clifford	95.920%	Olive	96.989%
Frank	93.640%	Agnes	96.825%
Arnold	93.608%	Elsie	95.752%
Leonard	92.845%	Mabel	95.524%
Edgar	88.857%	Edith	95.390%
Arthur	88.356%	May	95.387%
Albert	86.419%	Margaret	94.418%
Edwin	85.850%	Minnie	94.235%
Alfred	83.808%	Jane	93.119%
Sidney	79.815%	Violet	91.777%
Stanley	74.989%	Annie	91.621%
Francis	71.218%	Lilian	88.549%
Richard	66.590%	Mary	83.829%
Fred	55.606%	Florence	79.461%

Which do you like?
Which could you see working on a baby these days?

Comments

[ghetto-lonetto.livejournal.com]

Walter
Edgar
Arthur

Irene
May
Jane
Violet
Lilian (although I prefer Lillian or Lilliana)

I also have a strange fondness for Stanley, which I blame on A Streetcar Named Desire. It seems ill-advised with the increasing popularity of the name Stella, though.