What are some old woman names that arent used anymore?
Examples:
Blanche
Ethel
Bernise
Nothing’s ever extinct and everything old can be new again. “Sophie” is a pretty dramatic example of this.
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http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=SOPHIE&ms=false&sw=f&exact=false
“Henritetta” would have to rank pretty high.
“Heloise” would have been my guess too, but it looks like it was never popular.
I hope to God that most of the “old lady names” stay dead. There is nothing beautiful about Gertrude.
Eulalie was very popular for about 20 years, but hasn’t popped up again since the 1900s.
Funny, I would have thought Scarlett would have been very popular around the 1930s-40s, but it doesn’t show up until the 80s.
My name was very popular around the time I was born…now, not so much.
I know people with each of those names, except that one is spelled ‘Bernice’. All of them are over 40, if that makes a difference.
My sister’s name is Marian (she’s in her 70s). I’ve never known any other woman with that name.
I had some teachers with that name.
And my mom’s middle name was Gertrude.
I nominate “Flossie”. Although, as Huerta says, names are recycled all the time. Rose is a good example.
Lucy
Selam
Mrs. Ples
Twiggy
Eurydice
Old lady names won’t stay dead. The idea is the names of your generation are too popular, the names of your parents’ are old fashioned, but the names of your grandparents’ are exotic, but not too much. Some day soon, Boomer names are going to old lady names, if they aren’t already. Then they will become cool again. Then it will happen to Gen X after that and so on.
And I like the name Gertrude. I would consider it if I ever had a daughter and I would call her Trudy.
I always thought Enid was another old name, but then I met a woman in her 30s with that name.
Ed
One thing I’ve noticed that can revive/sustain old names is immigration. Young Korean and Chinese chicks could readily have Enid or Paulette as their English names.
Yes, names cycle, but I seriously doubt that Bertha and Beulah will experience a renaissance.
I know a late-20s Marian, although she is the daughter of Chinese immigrants. It seems like second-generation Asian-Americans are more likely to have old-fashioned names than other Americans. I’m not sure why, but if the parents are recent immigrants then they probably are not up on the hottest baby names and are more likely to go with something traditional. I’d guess they might also be inclined to name their kids after literary or film characters they encountered while studying English. For Chinese-Americans it’s also sometimes the case that the parents pick out a Chinese name they like for their kid and then find a similar-sounding English name.
Absolutely! I know a Dolly and a Betty who are both of Chinese background and probably the daughters of immigrants. I really love these sorts of names, actually.
Florence
Esther
Hilda
Bertha
Helga
Madge
Eunice
Effie
I wouldn’t call grandparents’ generations’s names exotic. If anything, they are more old-fashioned than my parents’ generation’s names. I mean…that generation is where the Gertudes, Enises, Mabels, Ethels, etc… come from. Maybe they’ll make a comeback, but I don’t think it will be with my generation (generation Y, the one that’s getting married and having kids the most right now.)
And is it just me, or do these name cycles seem more prevalent with girls’ names? I’m trying to think of names for boys that are “old-fashioned” and not used much anymore, and I can’t think of any. The best I can come up with is the fact that I don’t personally know any Simons…
Brunhilda
Hildegard
For boys, I nominate Vernon. I don’t think anything screams “old man” more than Vernon.
Walter is up there too.
The most popular boys’ names in the English-speaking world tend to be biggies from the Christian Bible, don’t they? John, Matthew, Thomas, Daniel, Joshua, James, etc?
I agree that girls’ names come in generational cycles. I bet twenty years ago, Abigail, Chloe and Olivia would have sounded old-fashioned and outdated, but now they’re in the top five for baby girls.
Not big on the Germanic names, eh, Harmonius? 
I do worth with a Hildi in her early 30s, but I’m not sure if it’s short for anything.
My first name would be considered an “old lady” name in the U.S. The only other people I have encountered who share my first name have been either Cuban or Chinese adults. Also there is a character in a popular video game who shares my first name, and she is certainly not an old lady.
I, too, have noticed that the when immigrants to the U.S. change their names, they tend to use first names that are nowadays mostly found among elderly Americans.