[identity profile] schexyschteve.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] babynames
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.

Date: 2011-09-22 02:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] requiem-morrow.livejournal.com
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

Date: 2011-09-22 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] requiem-morrow.livejournal.com
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).

Date: 2011-09-22 08:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] spaceandclouds.livejournal.com
Oh I love Ira and Pearl. Totally forgot about those! :)

Date: 2011-09-23 05:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] heure-actuelle.livejournal.com
Idelia reminds me of my grandma's name Idella. well her first name was Caroline but she went by Idella.

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