Leaffan
March 22, 2011, 6:50pm
4401
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry)
Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him)
Silken Laumann - rowing
Gretzky, Wayne - hockey
Eric Gagne - baseball
Sandra Schmirler - curling
Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis
Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback)
Brian Orser - figure skating
Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting
Steve Nash - Basketball
thanks for fixing my typo.
Sampiro
March 22, 2011, 6:58pm
4403
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry)
Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him)
Silken Laumann - rowing
Gretzky, Wayne - hockey
Eric Gagne - baseball
Sandra Schmirler - curling
Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis
Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback)
Brian Orser - figure skating
Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting
Steve Nash - Basketball
Nicolas Gill- Judo (Olympic medal winner)
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry)
Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him)
Silken Laumann - rowing
Gretzky, Wayne - hockey
Eric Gagne - baseball
Sandra Schmirler - curling
Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis
Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback)
Brian Orser - figure skating
Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting
Steve Nash - Basketball
Nicolas Gill- Judo (Olympic medal winner)
Kelly VanderBeek - skiing
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry)
Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him)
Silken Laumann - rowing
Gretzky, Wayne - hockey
Eric Gagne - baseball
Sandra Schmirler - curling
Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis
Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback)
Brian Orser - figure skating
Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting
Steve Nash - Basketball
Nicolas Gill- Judo (Olympic medal winner)
Kelly VanderBeek - skiing
Jacques Villeneuve: Formula One racing
Next: Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Next: Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
Rebo
March 22, 2011, 8:50pm
4408
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
Sampiro
March 22, 2011, 9:14pm
4409
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Sampiro
March 22, 2011, 10:58pm
4411
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Barbara
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Barbara
Thomas
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Barbara
Thomas
Martha
Sampiro
March 23, 2011, 12:27am
4414
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Barbara
Thomas
Martha
Ralph
Not being nitpicky here, but were Walter, Martha and Ralph really popular names? I guess they must have been before my time (born in mid-60s) if they were.
Sampiro
March 23, 2011, 1:20am
4416
Depends on the definition of popular I suppose. In the 1950s Walter and Ralph were number 40 and 52 respectively for boys and Martha was number 32 for girls. (Cite ). None broke the Top 100 for 2010 , so they were definitely more popular then than now.
I found an interesting site that lets you plot name popularity by year (it starts in 1879 and runs up to 2009).
If you search Walter, you’ll find it was a very popular name in the early part of the twentieth century. In 1914, it even cracked the top ten. Its popularity started a long decline in the forties but it didn’t fall out of the top hundred until 1973. But it kept falling and by now it’s approaching the four hundreds.
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Barbara
Thomas
Martha
Ralph
Steven
Fell from #10 (1955-1961) to #106 (2009).
Ponch8
March 23, 2011, 2:47am
4419
(Hijack) Some of the names in 2009’s top 100 (particularly for girls) are really nauseating.
Heh. I know a half-dozen youngish Stevens, and two boys in the same family named John and Thomas.
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today
Susan
Linda
Patricia
George
John
Walter
Barbara
Thomas
Martha
Ralph
Steven
Frank