I’ve known at least four Mildreds, but I’m a senior myself and all of them are or would be older than I.
Oh dear. If this was in Tennessee, would you mind PMing me? We have an older cousin named Dimple that we haven’t accounted for in a while.
Jordan is a surname in our family, so some of the men have the given name of Jordan. But it is pronounced as if it were spelled Jerden. That is a common pronunciation in the South.
My generation had a lot of Betsys (short for Elizabeth). Elizabeth and Katharine offer such a variety of shortened names that they seem very tempting.
Everything ( or many things, anyway ) comes around. My grandmother’s names were Myrtle and Amelia. Both seemed horribly old-fashioned when I was a kid. Myrtle still does. Amelia, however, seems to be enjoying a resurgence. Meanwhile my once semi-common mother’s name, Judith, seems to be in decline.
A year ago I met a severely attractive, early-20-something woman named Doris. And she went by Doris, too, with no hint of embarrassment.
My grandfathers were Leslie and Arthur, grandmothers Hilda and Marian. Great-grandfathers were Levi, John, Wilbur, and Thomas, great-grandmothers Minnie Lulu, Sarah, Eva, and Charlotte.
My husband and I went to name our future sons some old-dude names… we really like Desmond and Frank
I know two Veras. One is about 40-50 years old, while the other one is just in her early 30s. Italics added by me
Someone mentioned not hearing someone named Eulalie. I went to school with one (Eulalia in Spanish, goes by Lali). I know a little girl named Olivia (she’s about 5).
I’ll agree with the “grandparents name being cool again”. Heck, I want to name my daughter after my great-grandmother, and my sons after my grandfathers. Good proper fitting names in which you can picture a youngster or an old person. My name sucks for that, it’ll always sound like a little girl (to me).
Unfortunately not - Vernon Kay, if you’re into that sort of thing. I’m sure this walking hairstyle will ensure a minor Vernon resurgence amongst the Heat magazine generation.
I kinda-sorta know someone online (ha! What a noughties relationship) who goes by Doris by choice; I think she plans to change it legally (it’s not her given name). She’s also in her early twenties. Kids, eh.
Anecdata! I’ve cousins called Dora and Ruth (and George, come to think of it), and a second-cousin called Beatrice… Martha seems to be making a comeback, and I recently encountered a mid-thirties Ursula. I’m going to bring back “Jean”, personally, for any hypothetical children. I love old lady names.
Except “Prunella”, fair enough. That sounds like an unguent.
There was a Giving Tree Christmas Thingie for kids in a youth home a few years back.
One of the names was Dorcas who was a male and 16. I picked his name and I wish I could have given him buttloads of whatever 16 year boys want ( games, pron and candy.) because whomever named him probably didn’t realize his name was a very old welsh female name.
I still think Dorcas is actually a very pretty name.
Eve, Eva and Ava went through a reemergence - not uncommon in the preschool set. (Personally, I think all the E names are working through a comeback cycle, starting with Emily - the first wave Emilys are now all young adults, but Emily got too popular and Emma, Eleanor (Ellie), Elena and Eve are all heard in elementary school halls now.) I know a seven or eight year old Stella. My Sunday School class had the third grade girls Renee, Sophia, Nell and Kendra. Kendra was the only one without an old lady name. I know two under ten Solveigs - granted, I live in Minnesota, but Solveig is a Norwegian old lady name.
My given name is Marion, pronounced Marian (like Robin Hood and. . . that’ll be another nickel, thank you, please).
I’m female, and realize that Marion is the masculine spelling of the name, but I was named after two great aunts (one on each side), who both spelled it ‘Marion.’
My sister’s name is Joan.
We are both in our mid 30’s. Or at least I am. She may be in her late thirties.
We also have a cousin named Levi, which was outdated in '74 when he was a baby, but I’d consider using now.
