I’m 30, and my first name is Esther. I’ve noticed it growing (slightly) in popularity in recent years, but I don’t think it will last. It’s a very hard name to grow up with, and although I like my name now, when I was a kid, I hated it so much that I tried to make nicknames catch on, or pretend my name was actually something different. I love the name now, it’s made me who I am, but it was a love-hate relationship for many years.
As I write this, I’m holding a 1-year-old Eliza Jane.
It was sort of a family name for us, though, so that was a major reason we chose it.
I ran into a youngish Pauline recently. It does seem to be more rare these days that girls are given names that indicate their parents really wanted a boy, such as Roberta, Maxine and even more wretched names I can’t bring myself to mention.
There was a Dick Van Dyke Show episode many moons ago in which Dick and Laura are being besieged with inane advice about what to name the baby Laura was expecting.* Every relative and friend had suggestions, the most ludicrous of which came from (I think) Dick’s grandfather, who insisted that the child be named “Ulysses if it’s a boy, Ulysseia if it’s a girl.”
You can see where this is going. Yep, encountered a Ulysseia the other day, now in her early 20s.
*The happy couple wound up naming him Richie. What a rotten kid he turned out to be.
I think of Esther and Ruth as Jewish names, not so much old lady names. Well, maybe Esther is an old Jewish lady name…
I know an Annabelle, an Anabella, a Miriam and a Josephine, all under age five or so.
I think I knew at least 5 Esthers while in school. Grace was also an insanely popular name for both the Koreans and Chinese.
I know that some Asian-American students who arrived to the US as an older student were allowed to pick their own names. This can result in some really strange names like Fendi (fashion fanatic) and Leo (Titanic was big).
My girlfriend is 25-years-old, somewhat Taiwanese, and very much named Alice. I also knew a girl named Eunice in college, who was Korean. Very much agree with the Asian Girl Theory.
I knew someone with a son named Oscar. He’d be around 9 or 10 now (which scares the crap out of me, because it seems like yesterday that he was proudly flashing his first tooth).
I haven’t run into any of the other names, though, but I wouldn’t be surprised if Emmeline made a comeback - it’s rather pretty, and it’s a nice alternative to Emma (which is waaaay too common in the under-5 set).
As to the OP, one of my youngest cousins on the French-Canadian side is named Alice, after our grandmother. A couple of other cousins from that side of the family also have fairly old-school names… Felix and Amelie.
There was a girl in high school with me who was named Alice. She was class of 1980 and a flaming hottie. As a result, I’m not quick to dismiss anyone with that name 
If I knew a girl named Alice, I’d be really tempted to call her Uber Alice.
A couple I know through someone else just gave birth last week and named their daughter Hazel.
I know a 3 year old named Lucy.
Lucy has been making a comeback in recent years. I’ve had a couple of them in my class in the last few years.
My wife’s name is Agnes. She’s 41.
This was my #1 choice if my second child had been a girl (older one is Dorothy). Instead we named him Howard.
I have nieces Monica, Elise, Olivia, and Clare.
A name I’ve always loved was my aunt’s: Regina.
Yes, this, at least for my parents. They tell me that they picked my (old-fashioned; I’ve never met anyone less than thirty years older than I who shared my name, which I actually think is awesome) name completely randomly from a book of names. My sister’s name was picked similarly randomly, so they were kind of shocked when it turned out her name was one of the more popular ones, and there were lots of kids her age with her name.
So did my brother and his wife (although the baby was born at the beginning of July, not last week). I swore to them I would call her Hazelnut, but I’m also thinking of Nutella.
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I know an Alice who’s about 30, but no other seriously old-lady-named women. Unless Jane counts- I do know a Jane who’s about 21.
I’m 22. I know an Alice and (surprisingly) an Elsie.