Which makes perfect sense: if you graduated from high school in 1977, then you and your classmates were born in 1959 (give or take a year). As per the link, Gary was still in the top 20 for baby boy names in 1958 and 1959, sliding a bit to #22 in 1960.
If I ever get a blue cat I will gleefully name him Grover. Grover is my absolute favorite Muppet monster.
And rarely better than here:
I had 2 students named Oscar in the same class last year. I think it’s more popular in Hispanic families.
Maybe you’re not looking in the right place. You can find the poems here:
You have good taste.
That is the very bit that made me fall in love with Grover. He is so cute. 
I can’t tell. Is that a girl’s name or a boy’s name?
Dolores is somewhat more popular as a boy’s name than Zoe, according to that Baby Name Atlas site.
Frank Oz is a genius.
Me too! Small world. It definitely was a reference to the muppet, specifically his hair.
It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.
I’m glad someone got my reference. OK, I’m sure others did too; it’s not like the Kinks’ song is at all obscure.
There’s also singer Elmo Shropshire, of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” fame.
Is that with or without a comma? 
I knew an Ebenezer back in the 80s. He’d have been born around 1970.
Retro naming?
I was named after the titular character in the comic strip Terry and the Pirates. Not “Terence”—“Terry.”
My mother had always liked the name. I’ve hated it for as long as I can remember. Until my voice changed, every stranger I talked to on the phone thought I was a girl.
A British friend once told me it’s a nice, friendly name for a bloke: “Hey, Terry, fancy going out for a pint tonight?”
Has “Terry” ever been that common a name? (Terry and the Pirates ran from 1934 to 1973.) And have you ever known anyone named after a comic-strip or other pop-culture character?
“Terentii,” BTW, is an old Russian name that has long been out of favor.
I wouldn’t say it’s common, but it’s not unusual. Sometimes it’s short for Terrance and sometimes it’s short for Salvatore.
I prefer the British spelling used above. “Terrance” is just too busy—too many “R’s” and an “A.” Bleah! 
It pleases me no end that three of the first four James Bond movies were produced by Terence Young:
According to Bond historian Steve Jay Rubin, “Tall, well-dressed, and exquisitely mannered, Terence Young had all the panache of Ian Fleming’s James Bond.”