Eek!

[sayga.livejournal.com]

I'm looking on the Social Security site under 1000 most popular names in the 1920s (the search by decade). Here are some scary names on the list.

Girls:
Fairy
Cherry
Raymond (yes, for a girl)
Mammie
Dimple
Blossom
Mafalda
Pinkie (imagine the parents--ooh, she's such a CUTE newborn baby, all wet and pink and...say, let's name her Pinky!)
Santa
Easter
Floy
Pansy

Boys:
Manley
Dorothy
Furman
Wm (no, that's not a typo--465 people in the 20s were named Wm)
Ivy
Virgle (I imagine it's Virgil, but Virgle looks like it'd rhyme with burgle)
General
Margaret
Early (wow, he was born 5 weeks early...let's name him Early)
Loyal
Jewell
Royal

After looking at those names, I start to feel like kids named Mykynzy and Aleightheeia are going to turn out ok.

PS. Hayden is on the list, #844 with 619 babies name that in the 20s.

Comments

[secret-x-stars.livejournal.com]

i think in the 20s, no-one really gave a shit about names. just name the kid something and get on with life.

i'd figure that, anyway. :)

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Not so much names, but I imagine they weren't as interested in the legal documentation of names on birth certificates. They probably didn't hold as much importance back then as they do now, so in a sense it doesn't matter what you write on the certificate... but what you call the child would still be very important, if that makes sense