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

[sayga.livejournal.com]

oh, i know a lot of them weren't odd back then. that's kind of my point, that they seem weird to us but were popular/common back then. maybe there were other folks during that time thinking "you shouldn't name a kid THAT!"

i know i tend to think that weird names are new and in the 20s, everyone was named joseph or christopher or mary or rose. it was interesting to me to see there was a lot of diversion from classics, even then.

[krosp.livejournal.com]

Yeah that really is interesting. Thanks for sharing that =)