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What are you favorite not-hip retro names? I don't mean retro like Alice, Hazel, or Felix. I mean, things like Bertha, Martha, or Donald. I guess names that were more common in the 40s, 50, 60s, and 70s, instead of turn of the century.

I like Amy, Donna, and Joan. I can't think of any boys names I like that fall into a similar category.

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I like the names Beatrice and Blanche and Viola for girls. And Harvey, Cornelius and Glenn for boys.

I love Walter, Florence, Faye, and Lois. And Joan is cute, too! :)

that's because boy names stick closer to classics. John, Paul, Thomas, Andrew... not as big a gap in generations.

I don't much like female names from around when my parents were born, so no real answers to your question.

That's a good point. Boys names don't really have great variations.

Beatrix, Barbara, Betty (as a nickname for Elizabeth), and Helen.

Love the name Betty! My aunt's name is Betty but it's not a nickname.

I like my grandmother's sib set a lot. She is the baby, born in '42, so the oldest is probably early to mid 30s... spouses and middle names (where known) included, for the heck of it. Even though they're not as awesome, IMHO.

Fleurette/Ralph
Mariette Aline/Jack
Norman/Helen
Gloria (Gabrielle)/David

Genealogy is kind of a hobby of mine and digging out the family tree -

Helen
Mary Helen (total GP for me lol)
Joy
Pearl
Lola
Tennessee (her middle name was Elizabeth...and she wasn't from Tennessee)
Rhoda (I like the nn Rho)
Dorothy
Alice
Idelia
Leona

George
Wiley
Clement
Frances
Ira
Moses
Columbus
Redmon
Wilson
Moxley

Should have mentioned, some of those were just middle names...and my people liked to have babies LOL

Thought I'd throw in my grandmother = Barbara Fern, and my parents/siblings
Larry, Diana, Vicki, Allan, Kenneth, and Loretta Jean. There were a couple of Gayles, too, which you don't see much these days (Gail? Gale? lol I don't know).

Oh I love Ira and Pearl. Totally forgot about those! :)

Idelia reminds me of my grandma's name Idella. well her first name was Caroline but she went by Idella.

i like Martha.

I love Martha.

For boys, my two favourites are Arthur and Lewis. Definitely not 'hip' (yet?), at least not in North America.

cathy/kathy, frances, gloria, lesley, linda, lois, loretta, lorraine, maureen

art/arthur, frank, leslie, mickey, rodney

My favorites are Archie, Lawrence and Rueben for boys, Alexandra, Laurel and Lana for girls.

Martha, Marcy/Marcie, Marjorie, Doreen, Brenda, Beverly, Renee, Ruth, Lisa, Karen, Joyce, Gail, Joanne, Diana. Most of these aren't even in my top 10, but they're still nice enough names to me.

Ooh, and for boys, Arthur and Charles!

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