# Names you don't hear much these days **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 8, 2009, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371 "2009-07-08T21:50:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Lacunae\_Matata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lacunae\_Matata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lacunae_Matata)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/121 "2009-07-14T06:17:51Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > In other words, you are ruthless. Kudos on the username/post combo… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/122 "2009-07-14T13:41:45Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > In other words, you are ruthless. ZING! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/123 "2009-07-14T13:51:46Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > You didn’t think of [_Igel_](http://www.dict.cc/english-german/hedgehog.html). However, that’s only the European hedgehog – the American cousin is _Stacheltier_. If I ever have to come up with a new screen name, I might go with _Tschechenigel_ – Czech hedgehog! Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/124 "2009-07-14T14:31:17Z")
Screw your Bobs, Cheryls, etc. Wha happened to good old names like Sholto, Algernon, Nigel, and Winifred? Or Tatiana, Hedwig, and Calpurnia? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/125 "2009-07-14T15:38:25Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Wha happened to good old names like … Nigel, and Winifred? Or Tatiana, … In the last 12 years of teaching preschool, I’ve had two Nigels (one was British), and one Winifred. There have been a couple of Tatianas in the school, but I never had them in my class. ---
**Author:** ![Wednesday\_Evening](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wednesday\_Evening](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wednesday_Evening)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/126 "2009-07-14T16:03:41Z")
> [@thirdwarning](#): > > I’m hearing about more baby Alices these days. I dont’ know if it’s just cycled around, or if there’s a celebrity I don’t know about. My 3-year-old daughter is named Alice. It fit all of the requirements (easy to spell/pronounce, has a possible nickname, classic/traditional name) and I love the Alice in Wonderland books. I had the name picked out probably close to 10 years before she was born. Unfortunately it is not common enough that it is on items with pre-printed names. Alicia, yes. Alice, no. Gina seems to have waned in popularity since I was young. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/127 "2009-07-15T04:19:15Z")
I just thought of a few more: Stuart, Doris, Fred, Ned, Kim, Roberta, Deanna, Denise, Dennis, Melanie and Kay. Only had to look as far as the cousins. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/128 "2009-07-15T06:39:10Z")
Increase ---
**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/129 "2009-07-15T10:21:05Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Aw, come on! It’s not so bad. Especially if you wear a black suit and killer shades. So is your name J or K? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/130 "2009-07-15T13:11:01Z")
> [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](#): > > So is your name J or K? 😃 K and seriously no one has ever guessed it based on no clues except for: My first initial is “K” and I’ll tell you if you guess right. Of course, the dope is different ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/131 "2009-07-15T13:40:06Z")
> [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > Never met a single person named Henry in my entire life. Not a young man, not an old man, not a baby. Nobody. My grandfather had a brother named Henry who died two years ago; I never met him. Henry is becoming very fashionable now. I have a 4 year old nephew named Henry, and another friend just named his newborn son Henry. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/132 "2009-07-15T15:26:36Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > Henry is becoming very fashionable now. I have a 4 year old nephew named Henry, and another friend just named his newborn son Henry. SEE? :eek: Heidi Klum n’ Seal… Julia Roberts…they named their offsprings Henry. As go the celebs, so goes the world! To me, Henry is my grandma’s neighbor who chewed tobacco, kept a couple chickens, and wore suspenders, ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/133 "2009-07-15T15:40:04Z")
While I certainly don’t intend to make light of the recent deaths via assisted suicide of English musician [Edward Downes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Downes) and his wife, I had to note for this thread that the couple named their son Caractacus and their daughter Boudicca. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/134 "2009-07-15T16:05:38Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > Henry is becoming very fashionable now. I have a 4 year old nephew named Henry, and another friend just named his newborn son Henry. A 3 year old classmate of my daughter is named Henry. That’s 2 “old” names in the class so far. There’s a 4 year old in another class named Cedric. He’s a blonde, blue-eyed boy and all I can think of is Cedric the Entertainer. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/135 "2009-07-15T16:40:01Z")
I love the Baby Name Wizard. It appears that “Eulalie” hasn’t been popular since last century. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/136 "2009-07-15T20:05:38Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > In other words, you are ruthless. Unless my future granddaughter sports that name. Except that my daughter wants to call her future theoretical daughter Roxanna. And that’s kinda funny because I found out not long ago that my dad wanted to call me Roxanne. That would have been way cooler than Michelle - except for the whole song thing. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/137 "2009-07-15T20:26:44Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Unless my future granddaughter sports that name. Except that my daughter wants to call her future theoretical daughter Roxanna. And that’s kinda funny because I found out not long ago that my dad wanted to call me Roxanne. That would have been way cooler than Michelle - except for the whole song thing. Better to be “Michelle, ma belle” than “Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light”. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/138 "2009-07-15T20:53:26Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I love the Baby Name Wizard. It appears that “Eulalie” hasn’t been popular since last century. I wanted a Dorcas. But I’m not actually that cruel to my children. It peaked in popularity in 1920. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/139 "2009-07-15T20:58:06Z")
My mother’s cousin is named Dorcas. She’s in her late 70s. She went by Dori when she was very young, but has been called Dorcas since she was a teen. ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371/140 "2009-07-16T01:53:00Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I love the Baby Name Wizard. It appears that “Eulalie” hasn’t been popular since last century. Oh, I know _all_ about Eulalie. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/names-you-dont-hear-much-these-days/502371.md?page=8)