According to Popular Baby Names, “Lily” was the 17th most popular girls name in 2010. Not outdated at all.
Lemme think… I’m not sure exactly how old he is, but I think he was born in the late 80s- early 90s. He was named after a friend of the family who now that I think about it is the only other guy named Taylor I’ve met. It is usually a girl’s name, isn’t it? Huh… And the Jehosephat? I think Gran is just a bit nuts. Love her, but she’s nuts.
I just went on nymbler.com which is a lot of fun. You can put in up to 6 names that you like and it suggest back names that are supposed to fit your style. It has been really close on some of my friends and way off on others, but still cool to do. I put in Everly and Jonas and got back: Max, Oliver, Elias, Noah, Ezra, Owen, Walker : Janette, Harper, Isabelle, Janet, Madeleine, Charlotte, Isabella, Madaline.
Kind of interesting. Some seem like they would make good siblings and some seem to go off in weird directions or be very popular right now.
It’s also fun to look at the SSA list of popular baby names, but instead of looking at the popular ones, look at names that were used 25 times or less last year. (Google “beyond the top 1000 names”.) A lot of them are just weird misspellings of more common names, but some are really cool.
Duncan or Victor for a boy. Arden for a girl.
My mother (growing up in the 50’s) always wanted to be named Beverly.
I also think Genevieve is beautiful.
Genevieve is a nice name… but let’s just say bad memories from my youth… I could move on, but it’s just easier not picking THAT name.
Thinking of the names of relatives born 80-100-ish years ago:
Juliana
Marya
Eleanor
Louise
Genevieve
Veronica
Stella
Clara
Jenny
Carolyn
Margaret
Constance
Victoria
Dorothy
Katherine
Frank
Walter
Joseph
Michael
Howard
Anthony
George
Charles
The women’s names were much more interesting, IMHO.
Chizzuk:
I hadn’t even thought about that. Ambiorix sticks in my mind because I’m a Royals fan, and Ugueth because of the uncommon set of alliterative initials.
I love Pearl or Ursula for girls. For a boy, I think Sam is always a solid choice.
My Sadie is really Cassadie, the other Sadie’s we know are short for Mercedes. I wanted Magdaline, dad vetoed. I also liked Sophie, also vetoed. He liked Cassidy, I liked Sadie. We made it fit. For a while she wanted to be known as Cass, which was difficult to remember.
Other names I like:
Girl: Olivia, Isabelle, Penelope, Rose
Boy: Malachi, Ezekiel, Samuel, Carter