What's a first name you just don't hear anymore?

[terrya]

You just don't hear boys with the first name of Hubert anymore. Thank goodness.

[Magrittes Pipe]

1. Adolf

[SoxFan]

53. Yeah, and I wouldn't expect a comeback real soon

[Manifestor_of_Light]

153. I once knew a man named Dolph. Close?

Born in the 1920s.

We had a Texas guvner named Dolph Briscoe.

[Rhiannon12866]

184. Maybe he changed-shortened it during the war.

Actually, Harpo Marx was born as Adolph, but legally changed it to Arthur. Can you blame him?:shrug:

[Sabriel]

2. Oswold, Percy, Mortimer

I say, bring back the good ol' days.

[redwitch]

3. Ethel

Guinevere

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I had an Aunt Ethel

She was married to my Uncle Sam...no joke.

[redwitch]

48. Was he really, really tall with a white beard?

Did he dress in stars and stripes?

Any signs of spring up there Blue?

[Blue_In_AK]

88. No, he was kind of short and chubby,

but he did have white hair (they were my great-aunt and uncle). :)

It's been warming up a little here, kind of gradually, which is nice because it's not quite such a mess. A few kinds of trees are just starting to bud, and I have one tulip up about an inch, so the end is near. Spring won't really start kicking in for another three or four weeks, although we did go out on our first spring walk last night.

This is what it looked like...



It's breaking up anyway...

[redwitch]

185. How incredibly beautiful!

Upstate NY spring is slowly coming along too. We are supposed to have temps in the 50s all week, it will feel great! I was in the Adirondacks this week and the water gushing down the mountainsides tells me the big melt is well underway. Sometimes winter is just too damn long. I am a big fan of autumn and spring myself.

[Critters2]

57. That was my grandmother's name. I loved my grandmother,and

once told her I'd name my first girl after her. She told me NOT to give a child such an awful name. As it happens, I never had to make the decision, but would've used my grandmother's maiden name as a middle name, because I still would've liked to honor her.

In another time, people liked the name. Enough to give it to my grandmother.

[redwitch]

186. My grandmother's were Monica and Marion.

Monica had a sister Ada, don't hear that name much either. If I had had a girl I would have named her Emma. I told my mom that and she was horrified. It was too old fashioned apparently. Now I know several Emmas, all very young.

[SeattleGirl]

65. I actually know a woman younger than me with the name Ethel.

I've also known someone named Mabel who was younger than me.

[nomorenomore08]

151. I know a dog named Maebel - she's a pit bull. LOL

nt

[Diana Prince]

90. Grandmothers name was Ethel Wanda Wintersteen n/t

[redwitch]

187. Wow!

I had a friend growing up who was Beatrice Wilhemina _____. And another whose last name was Winterbottom. :-)

[HamstersFromHell]

109. My mom was an Ethel

n/t

[datasuspect]

4. Laszlo

Methuselah
Asa
Norbert
Philo
Balthazar
Bartholomew
Hosea

i can go on for days like this, but i won't

[ThomCat]

145. I think Lazlo and Bartholomew are still used.

Just not quite as commonly used.

[crispini]

199. We had a Balthazar running for judge here.

He was a nut.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Hortense.

[datasuspect]

6. Violet

[Dulcinea]

25. That was my grandmother's name.

I think some Hollywood celebrity named his kid Violet. Ben Affleck maybe?

[datasuspect]

47. mine too

[Orangepeel]

125. Yep. Ben Affleck's and Jennifer Garner's kid is named Violet

which IMO, is quite normal compared to what a lot of other celebrities names their kids.

[XemaSab]

11. GMTA

:P

[SteppingRazor]

7. Matilda, Bertha, Chester, Edith, Eunice, Wilford. There's gotta be tons of others. n/t

[tjwmason]

49. My neice (aged 4 months) is called Matilda nt

[spindrifter]

119. A kid I went to

grade school with (Harry) had a sister, Matilda, but we all called her Tillie.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

193. Matilda is making a comeback.

[IndianaJones]

8. Edna, Irene, Fred. nt.

[femmocrat]

118. I have a couple of Freds in my classes. Elementary level.

Possibly named after their fathers? :shrug:

[Kat45]

134. I have a friend named Edna.

I also knew two other Edna's, one being her mother. Went to school with a couple of Irenes and knew a couple of Freds too.

[Chan790]

9. One of my fraternity brothers was named Hubert

His middle name was Denmark so he got it bad both ways.

[XemaSab]

10. Hortense

:P

[devilgrrl]

Mildred

eom

[Bullwinkle925]

12. Clarence . . . Mabel . . . Wilma . . . Clista . . . Verna . . . Eula . . .Beulah n/t

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

50. why did i know that was you?

I saw Clarence and just knew - but who's Mabel??

[lost-in-nj]

13. Pearl, Mildred ,Ida

lost

[MissMillie]

38. Pearl is a beautiful name

:thumbsup:

[grannylib]

68. I love that name - had a gran named Pearl, and a friend of my

middle daughter has a two-year-old named Pearl.
I also had a friend who named her puppy Pearl, in honor of Janis :-)

[spindrifter]

121. My mom's extended family

was populated with names including Jewel, Pearl and Opal. My grandmother's mother let at least some of her kids name themselves--I don't know how old they were when they took this task upon themselves, though.

[grannylib]

172. That's kinda cool...I had a gal in my youth group at church once

who was named Amelia and she was an unhappy little kid, and when she was about 7, she was able to articulate to her parents that they had named her the wrong thing and she was not an Amelia at all, so they let her legally change her name to Amy, since she told them that was her real name.
:-)She was happier after that.

[KitchenWitch]

14. Myrtle

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I knew a Myrtle once

and she was actually younger than me.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Elsie.

My grandma was named Elsie Geraldine. Whoa. I also had aunts on the other side of the family named Ludene, Hattie, Norma, Erma, Ernestine, and my mother's name was Pauline. Shirley was the only one who had a halfway normal name. They just don't name kids like that anymore, thank goodness. I was almost an Ernestine myself (my dad's name was Ernest) -- thank God cooler heads prevailed. Instead I became a "Linda" like maybe one out of three girl babies born in 1946.

[huskerlaw]

23. One of my best friends is named Elsie

she's 24. :shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

28. Wow - that's the first one I've heard of in a while.

I don't think it's a bad name at all, just always reminded me of a cow. Now, that shows MY age. :)

[huskerlaw]

36. What's really funny is

that when she goes to Starbucks, they almost always write "LC" on the cup.

She's had many a barista assume that it's LC, like Lauren Conrad from "The Hills." Which shows how young she is! (and also shows that we live in Southern California...) ;)

[lizerdbits]

66. I knew one in HS

She's probably about 30 now.

[malta blue]

75. my grandmother was Elsa Maria.

I love the name Elsie. I wanted to name little MB that, but my ex did not agree. :shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

93. I always think of the name affectionately

because my grandma was such a cute little Pennsylvania Dutch lady, with a very, very sweet personality.

[hobbit709]

177. That was my great grandmother's name

[MrsMatt]

102. I know an Elsie

she's almost three years old (she's in my son's room at daycare).

My husband's senior prom date was named Pauline (not me)

[crispini]

200. One of my coworkers was named Elsie

I like the name. :D

[Rosie1223]

17. Jethro n/t

[ornotna]

18. Beavis and Butthead

I'm sure there are more.

[CreekDog]

58. Beaver and Buffcoat

:rofl:

[cynatnite]

20. Ghangis n/t

[Solon]

21. John...

heh

:hide:

[quip]

113. I expected after the "..." Jacobjingleheimerschmidt!

:shrug:

[cloudbase]

22. Aloysius.

I had an English professor with that name. Cool guy-a graduate of West Point and in the Army Air Corps during the big war.

[flvegan]

24. Buford, Kermit, Genghis, Wile, Bugs, Daffy

[Blue_In_AK]

29. I worked with a lawyer named Kermit

but he went by "Kerry" so as not to be confused with a frog.

[MissMarple]

26. Ethelfreda. I did have an Aunt Frieda, though. n/t

[Throd]

27. Aiden, Braden, Caden, Jaden, etc...

[MissMillie]

39. I know 3 couples that have had Aidens in the last 10 years

and Jaden is very big these days too.

[alphafemale]

41. Actually Aiden is pretty popular right now.

http://wbztv.com/watercooler/popular.baby.names.2.669960.html

[Fleshdancer]

I know 2 boys named Aiden and 1 girl and 1 boy named Caden

it's making a come back

[Critters2]

59. I know two Jadens. Seems to be a fad name right now. nt

[malta blue]

76. one of my best friends in college was a Braden. nt

[femmocrat]

115. Are you kidding? There is a whole new crop of kindergarteners with those names!

Also spelled as: Brayden, Braydn, Caiden, Jayden, Jaidyn, etc. It goes on and on.....

[kath]

142. I'd guess you're kidding - other than Aidan,the rest of those are part of the current fad of made-up

names.

[ThomCat]

146. Aiden is really popular right now.

:shrug:

[Awsi Dooger]

196. I have a 4 year old nephew

named Caden.

I never heard of the name until he was born, but I looked it up and it was shockingly high on the current oft-used list.

[Lance_Boyle]

30. Ebenezer, for one.

Schley (although I know a guy with the middle name Schley).

Mortimer.

Very few Hermans any more, either.

[mdmc]

31. Otto

[bif]

32. Charlemagne

[The Animator]

167. That's what all the French girls call me.

Can't imagine why. :evilgrin:

[kwassa]

Mehetibel

looking at my family geneology, there were many in early America. All the rest of the names are still in use a couple of years later.

My wife refused to name our daughter this!

[Diana Prince]

91. We had several Mehetibels in our family also n/t

[kwassa]

33. Mehetibel

looking at my family geneology, there were many in early America. All the rest of the names are still in use a couple of years later.

My wife refused to name our daughter this!

[TZ]

34. Fanny, Sol, Edith,

All names from past generations of my family.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

51. My 20-year-old niece's middle name is Edith

She HATES it. First name is Erika, for her German grandmother. I think my nutty sister-in-law liked the name Edith and stuck her with it.

[CreekDog]

60. On the east coast Edith is Edit

:think:

[Bennyboy]

178. My Mom's name is Edith.....(82).

And she says she is going to outlive every Edith left on earth.

[KansDem]

35. "Elmo" and "Orlo"

Had a neighbor across the street named "Orlo" and "Elmo" I heard several times growing up.

[Bucky]

37. Voltron

it's old school

[MissMillie]

40. Bartholomew

But I just love "Bart"

[Lydia Leftcoast]

42. Lloyd, Lyle, LaVerne, Saundra

All names that were very popular in times past.

You know, people 75 years from now will be laughing at names like Briana and Jaden. The trendier your name is, the more obsolete it will sound in a couple of decades.

[Zavulon]

43. That's my father's name. (NT)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

44. Amelia...my grandmother's middle name...

[Critters2]

62. I know two Amelias, both little girls. I think it's making a comeback. nt

[femmocrat]

116. Yes, it's back.... Middle school and younger. n/t

[grannylib]

70. I named my second daughter Amalea; it's the Norski version

and I guess they're all variations of Emily, which was my oldest daughter's name.

[cordelia]

99. Amelia was my aunt's middle name, and

my best friend's 8 year old niece is named Amelia.

I think it's a lovely name.

[Amelie]

162. My daughter (4 yrs old) is named Amelie

She's named after my great-aunt...who was originally named Amelia, but had her name involuntarily changed due to a typographical error on her birth certificate.

[Cabcere]

198. A good friend of mine in grade school had a sister named Amelia.

She would be about 26 now, I guess. :shrug: I always thought it was a pretty name. :hi:

[Iggo]

45. Bocephus

[MissMarple]

79. I didn't know that was really a name, just Hank Williams Jr. being weird .

Go figure. Wikipedia says his nickname comes from the Grand Ole Opry comedian Roy Brasfield's ventriloquist dummy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams_Jr.

[cordelia]

95. My dad named his cat

Bocephus

[WildEyedLiberal]

46. My grandpa was named Clyde

Fortunately that one wasn't passed on through the family.

[last_texas_dem]

52. Carl

I kinda like it, but I'm pretty sure I haven't heard of anyone born after the 1950's with that name.

[grannylib]

71. I have a dear friend named Carl; he's late 20s, and he and his wife

named their firstborn Carl as well; my hubby's niece is married to a Karl, and he's early 30s.
Great guys, both of 'em :-)

Of course, I also had a Grandpa Carl, and an Uncle Carl, so yeah, it's an old name too!

[femmocrat]

120. "Carl" is still around....

I have a student named Carl in the first grade, and had some older Carls, too. They are probably in HS by now.

[last_texas_dem]

147. Interesting

Judging from the responses, I seem to have underestimated the strength of "Carl"! I'm glad the name is hanging in there...

[BreweryYardRat]

170. *points to self* Now you have.

And one of the fellows back when I was in high school was named Karl. A bit annoyingly perfect, but a good chap.

[LeftishBrit]

191. I know a boy of about 10 called Carl

In the UK, while not common, it's not wildly unusual either.

[XNASA]

54. Goody, Thankful, Shadrach, Increased, Comfort.

[Critters2]

61. Ah, the old Puritan virtue names.

I served a church once with three Prudences and a Patience. I was surprised to find Congregationalists still holding to this tradition, but there they were.

[grannylib]

72. I am Godmother to a Charity Hope eom

[last_texas_dem]

55. Gladys

My great-grandmother's middle name...

[RetroLounge]

96. Gladys was my Grandmother's name

:hi:

RL

[Auggie]

174. Mine too

:thumbsup:

[suninvited]

56. A guy named Hubert works with me

and he is a young guy, maybe 25

[Critters2]

63. Martha. If I had had a girl child, I would've named her "Martha".

When I tell people this, they wince and suggest it's just as well. Still, I like the name.

[Withywindle]

103. My best friend's name is Martha

She just turned 40.


It's also the name of a really cool character on the new Doctor Who series, so maybe it'll make a comeback among geeks. :D

[CreekDog]

64. Geddy

must have bad connotations now or something. :evilgrin:

[quip]

110. BAAAAAAH!!!!ELEVENS!!

Good one! :thumbsup:

[grannylib]

67. Wilfred for boys; Agnes for girls; two of the first which come to mind.

I do like seeing a come-back for some of the more "old fashion" names: Emma, Ada, Hannah, Samuel, etc. but some are best left behind, I think!
I think of some of the names in my family: Idelia, Gilman, Agatha, Olga, Conrad...

[femmocrat]

122. I currently have a second-grade student named Idelia.

I never heard that name before her. Also had a Conrad a few years ago. He would probably be in college or early 20s by now.

[grannylib]

171. Wow, cool! I had never heard of anyone else with that name at all!

Thanks for sharing :-)

[Lyric]

69. Maud, Florence, Esmerelda, Bertha n/t

[LeftishBrit]

179. Actually 'Florence' is not an unknown name among small English girls..

And I recently met an 8-year-old called Maudie. Not common, I admit!

[redwitch]

188. A young friend just had a baby and named her Esmeralda.

:-) Everything old is new again.

[Va Lefty]

73. My Grandfather was named Maphis

that's a name you don't hear anymore

[Blue_In_AK]

89. That was my stepmother's maiden name..

Dorothy Maphis. I wonder if we're related. Her dad was Omer Maphis (that's another name you don't hear often) and her mom was Elsie AND she has a brother John who lives in Virginia. Do you know these people, by any chance?


ed. And for you people thinking of stealing my identity, I use my birth mother's maiden name when it's called for in security situations. :P

[Va Lefty]

98. Sorry, none of those names sounds familaer

Maphis was my Grandfather's first name

[azmouse]

74. Fern, Edna, Hilda

[Broken_Hero]

77. Ardath, Edith,

Gertrude....

[limit18]

78. My aunt was named Vernell.

[Adsos Letter]

80. Cletus...Phineas...Leslie (for guys) ...Alma...Cordelia...Gerald...

[MonkeyFunk]

81. Og

[TexasBushwhacker]

82. Seymour

Actually the last person I knew named Seymour was a little girl :P

[Cant trust em]

83. Bertha. NT

[ironflange]

84. Voldemort

Not seen much now, but I knew a couple of Voldemorts in elementary school.

Voldemort Epstein and Voldemort Chow.

[applegrove]

85. Ardith for a gril. I like it but have only ever heard of it once.

[HEyHEY]

87. I worked with an Ardith... EVIL EVIL woman she was.

[applegrove]

94. The Ardith I worked for was wonderful. Her name really suited her. She

was a sweetie.

[achtung_circus]

86. Dorcas. nt

[femmocrat]

124. I know a Dorcas.... around age 30, maybe?

Very unusual name. She is a hair stylist.

[LeftishBrit]

190. I knew two small sisters called Dorcas and Agnes about 10 years ago

They'd be in their late teens now.

[ironflange]

92. Peter

That was the name of a woman I knew. I've also known a woman by the name of Richard (Daddy really wanted a boy).

[Guava Jelly]

97. Eleanore

My moms name :D

[hvn_nbr_2]

100. Oliver, Ralph, Bertha, Cora, Ida

Holy crap! That's from my family tree just two generations ago.

[femmocrat]

131. "Olivia" made a comeback a few years ago, though.

Most of the Olivias are now in middle or high school, but I still see a few in elementary.

[hvn_nbr_2]

143. I work with someone named Olivia.

I think she's the only Olivia I've ever known personally. She's in her early 20s, I think.

[muriel_volestrangler]

194. Oliver: 3rd most popular boy's name in England and Wales, 2007

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/specials/babiesnames_boys.asp

[laylah]

101. Bessie, the name

of my Gram...the epitomy of "An Independent Woman"

[Akoto]

104. Gertrude.

[MrsMatt]

105. Zerilla, Hortulana, Delpha, Ardine

Zerilla - husband's great grandmother
Hortulana - friend's grandmother
Delpha Ordella - my aunt
Ardine - my uncle

We're a family with strange names.

[hellbound-liberal]

106. Aloysius, something my mother used to call me, after St, Aloysius, I believe.

Speaking of my mother, there aren't too many Joans around anymore, either.

[hyphenate]

107. My grandfather's name, Archie, from Archibald

Beatrice
Agnes
Jezebel

[philosophie_en_rose]

108. Cletus

:shrug:

[HamstersFromHell]

111. Two quick lists:

Boys:

Mose
Adolphus
Leland
Filbert
Bertram
Augustus (kid up the street where I grew up got this awful name)
Budgie (worst of the bunch, yes, I knew one...who'd name a kid after a flippin' bird?)

Girls:

Eunice
Ida
Ima
Imogene
Carlotta

[quip]

112. For boys: Sue

http://youtube.com/watch?v=M89c3hWx3RQ

[momto3]

114. My grandfathers names:

Cletus and Elmer

[DarkTirade]

117. My own, unless you're talking about people from the UK.

Mine's pretty much never used here in the US.

[spindrifter]

127. Carroll (for a guy)

I'm not seeing any Carols or Judiths in the kindergarten set these days. We had so many girls named that when I was little! I recall when Sophie and its variants became the local rage. I thought it was such an old irrelevant name at the time. Guess it was just the transition from Susan to Sarah to Sophie. Now I think Nevaeh is pretty weird--but a couple of people at work have named their daughters than.

[ElboRuum]

123. Anything that doesn't end in -en, -er, or -on.

[ElboRuum]

126. Asmodeus...

Agamemnon
Lucifer
Zoroaster
Siddhartha
Mohandas
Johann
Sebastian
Fred
Barney
Dino
Elroy
Norbert
Norbit
Axel
Axl
Slash
Duff
Izzy
Iggy
Ignatius
Cornelius
Rudolph

[femmocrat]

128. Just a few more oldies.. I have NO students with these names......

Hedwig (old German name, I think)
Josephine (my MIL)
Valeria (an aunt... I always loved that name)
Constance
Penelope
Rita
Patricia, Patty, Patrice
Mary Jane, Mary Jo, Mary Lou, etc.
Alfred, Albert
Alphonse
Sebastian
Janet, Janice, Janis, Jeannette (very popular in the 50s)

I'll probably think of 100 more while trying to fall asleep tonight!

[Amelie]

164. My one year old is named Patricia

After my mother. My cousin-in-law is a Patrice (but she's one child out of 12; I think they were running out of names). I have a cousin named Josephine, but we call her Jo.

[LeftishBrit]

180. I know a few young Patricias and Penelopes...

Not that common. Patricia usually becomes Pat or Patsy.

I know a 20-year-old university student called Josephine.

I knew a small boy called Albert a few years ago (he'd be about 15 now); but his name was regarded as old-fashioned.

Among names that were commoner in the past than now: Margaret, Valerie, Sandra, Tracey. Oh, and half our ageing or retired politicians in the UK seem to be called either Norman or Denis, but I've never met anyone young with those names.

[Generic Brad]

129. Octavius

There are not very many good Latin names being used these days.

[swimboy]

130. Somewhere near the utter bottom of the list: Ichabod

[NC_Nurse]

132. Florence, Cornelia, Dolores

Doris, Selma, Kimball, Lois

[Initech]

133. Artimus

[Flaxbee]

135. Gaylord, Gladys, Myrtle, Millicent, Merle (male or female)

Earl (or Earlene), Humphrey... lots more, no doubt

[Kat45]

136. Ebenezer

Too tired to think of more right now; that just popped into my head.

[Kat45]

137. I would have said Prudence, but someone I know named her baby that

[GreenPartyVoter]

138. Clara...Louise

[Amelie]

165. My mother is a Louise and her sister is named Clara

How funny you came up with those two.

[GreenPartyVoter]

169. That is funny! :^D

[TomBall Democrat]

205. My great aunt Clara named her daughter Louise

must be something to the combo.

[Zorra]

139. Estelle and Genevieve. n/t

[AwakeAtLast]

140. Helga, Olga, Barbara

I had a great-great grandmother named Olga.

[UndertheOcean]

141. Dracula

[quakerboy]

149. Vlad

[Robeson]

144. Mine. But I'm not going to say it.

[quakerboy]

148. I believe

Eugene is dying out.

[Cabcere]

201. He should've been more careful with that axe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3R2PgMiTvw

:evilgrin:

[Breeze54]

150. Agnes and Loretta - Arthur and Henry

:shrug:

[In_The_Wind]

152. Hoyt

Frankly, I'm not surprised!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

154. Orpha.

Supposedly an angel in the Bible. Oprah's mom tried to name her that and could not spell.

Chauncey (My uncle Oren's middle name)

Fanny

Maxine

Eula (my mom's first cousin who went to Yale)

Vernon (Eula's mother)

Lots of guys names have turned into girls' names: Leslie (Howard), Joyce (Kilmer), Shirley, Connie (Mack), Vyvyan, Beverley.

Zeno.

Opal.

Hazel

Ruby

Fern

Juanita (anybody with this name was born in the 1920s)

Minnie (one of my great grandmother's names, born in 1875)


Laverne

Thelma

Selma

[ChickMagic]

161. Hazel & Opal

My mom and her sister.

[raptor_rider]

155. Dorothy, there is just none

out there, except my daughter who is 10. She is the only Dorothy in her school. Everyone knows who she is.

[Amelie]

166. That's great

My MIL is Dorothy. If we had another girl, we were going to name her Dorothy.

[annonymous]

156. Female names: Myrna, Myra; Male names: Hugo, Alfred

A few of my female relatives had names you don't see very often these days like Dorothy, Dora and Clara. Some of the names posted have made a bit of a comeback i.e. Amelia, Aidan, but I doubt names like Cletus, Ethel, Hortense, Aloysius, Percy, Winnifred, Manfred, Agnes, Mabel or Alonzo would be making a comeback.

[Jamastiene]

157. Matilda

Helga
Lorena

Well, I haven't heard these in a while. :P

[Phillycat]

159. I know a baby Matilda. It's coming back with the hipsters.

I also love Claudia. Strong old-fashioned names for girls.

[calico1]

158. Some names I never hear people giving

kids anymore:

Doris
Mavis
Ruth
Hildegard
Eudora
Janet
Francine

For boys:
Egbert
Otto
Milton
Doris
Carroll

Just some I thought of

[Burma Jones]

160. Truman - it's my Dad's, Younger Half-Brother's and Grandfather's first name

My Mom put her foot down though and refused to name me Truman, and my younger half brother goes by his middle name, come to think of it, so did my Dad....

You would think that the movie "The Truman Show" would have helped.....

[Amelie]

163. Ernastine (my grandmother's name) n/t

[The Animator]

168. My name is pretty rare outside my family.

I don't see too many guys named Charlie out there. I've met a few, but for the most part it seems my family has the monopoly on the Charlie moniker. It's kind of a tradition now.

[Connonym]

173. Winifred, Ralph, Eugene, Lawrence, Lloyd, Dorothy, Adolf

or even my name, Constance, you'll very seldom see for anyone under 50 (oh I despised it as an old-lady name when I was a kid).

[Xipe Totec]

175. Aniceto,

Arcadio, Telesforo, Aquiles, Praxedis...

On edit:

I'm not kidding; these are real names.

Telesforo is the name of my 6th grade math teacher. Praxedis Palafox is the name of an elementary in my home town.

[livvy]

176. Elsie

It was my grandmother's name. That damn cow ruined the name, not that it was the greatest name in the world, but...



Got milk?

[Inspired]

181. All of us who are Debbie's, Barbara's, Cindy's, Sue's, Donna's, etc.,

are probably the last generation of those names.

[Danmel]

182. Carols and Karens too

But I expect they'll come back when our kids have kids- like the Mollys and Kates and Emmas that were grandma names in our day.

You don't see any Irvings or Irwins or Hymans or Harveys or Murrays these days!

(Or Barry for a boy or Sidney for a boy for that matter-though Sidney Crosby might change that) You do see Bari and Sydney for girls, so I'm just waiting for Murri for a girl to be the new trendy name!)

[Rhiannon12866]

183. Gertrude, Bertha, Beulah, Myrtle, Hazel, Josephine, Dorothy, Ruth, Ethel.

If you hear any of those names, you just know that they're senior citizens. BTW, my grandmothers were Hazel and Josephine and my great-aunts were Ruth and Bertha, lovely ladies all. :-)

[LiberalEsto]

189. Donald, Barbie, Dennis

Donald because of Donald Duck

Barbie because of Barbie

Dennis because of Dennis the Menace

[Cabcere]

202. Actually I know quite a few Donalds

in my age range (early 20s). :shrug: Not so much w/the others, though... :hi:

[LeftishBrit]

192. Cedric, Cyril, Herbert, Horace, Audrey, Doreen, Doris, Priscilla, Gertrude, Daisy...

I would have said Wilfred, but I met a small boy of that name not long ago.

[ZombieHorde]

195. The Biblical name Nimrod.

Genesis 10:8-9 Cush was the father of Nimrod, who grew to be a mighty warrior on the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; that is why it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD."

Micah 5:6 They will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, the land of Nimrod with drawn sword. He will deliver us from the Assyrian when he invades our land and marches into our borders.

[Zoigal]

197. Anyone know anyone named Manford? z

[TomBall Democrat]

203. Clara

Don't hear that often anymore.

My great Aunt Clara was the last one I knew.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

204. Elvin n/t