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[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

Watching "Yours, Mine and Ours" (1968). It's based on the true story of a widower with ten children who marries a widow with eight children.

Francis “Frank” Beardsley
Michael “Mike”
Charles “Rusty”
Gregory “Greg”
Rosemary
Louise
Mary
Susan
Veronica
Germaine
Joan

Helen North
Colleen
Janette
Nicholas “Nick”
Thomas “Tommy”
Jean
Phillip
Gerald
Teresa

WDYT?

It also got me thinking of the practice of using similar names on siblings (Rosemary and Mary, Janette and Jean). I think there were fewer names to choose from back then than there are today, but it still happens today. What do you think about this?

Comments

[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

I like

Francis
Michael
Rosemary
Germaine
Joan

[banded-becky.livejournal.com]

Personally I wouldn't ever name my children so that the name of one could be the nickname of the other, like Rosemary and Mary. On the other hand, I don't really see anything wrong with naming your children similar names (like Janette and Jean) if you like that sort of thing.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I like:

Michael
Rosemary
Louise
Mary
Susan
Joan
Colleen
Jean
Phillip

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

All I can hear in my head is the "Brady Bunch" theme.

I guess I could see how non-name geeks might not even think about it, but I dislike the use of similarly-based names for siblings. I also don't like when two names that essentially mean the same thing are used together (Susan Lily, for example), although, again, I don't expect most people to be as aware of it.

[mirhanda.livejournal.com]

I love that movie! Lucille Ball was a great actress!

[kapowski.livejournal.com]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE MOVIES EVER! the only name that ever stuck out to me was 'colleen' the rest were meh. i thought the actress that played rosemary was bangin' though :-D

[hermionesparkle.livejournal.com]

That is one of my favorite movies! I always liked the names Colleen, Veronica, & Germaine.

[chillinbabejodi.livejournal.com]

I LIKE:
Michael
Charles
Louise
Helen
Nicholas
Thomas
Teresa

[laminy.livejournal.com]

I like:

Francis
Rosemary
Mary
Veronica

[hermione-vader.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I never commented on this.

Yeah, parents mainly stuck to Top 100 and Top 200 names a lot more than they did today, and I don't think having multiple Marys was too bizarre back then, especially if one was Rosemary or "Mary + Middle Name" and another daughter had Mary as a middle name. My mother (5th of 13 kids) is Helen Mary (after her grandmother) ; the 4th child is Mary Theresa (Terry); 7th is Margaret Mary (Molly); and 9th is Marion Clare (Marion is a form of Mary). I don't think any of their peers ever thought twice about it.

I like:

Michael
Charles
Rosemary
Louise
Mary
Joan
Helen
Nicholas
Thomas
Philip
Teresa