That’s why if I ever have a son, I’m going to name him… Onan.
I’m sure he’ll thank me for it.
A few years ago I had a coworker named Henry. He was originally an immigrant from China.
One of the many things I like about “King of the Hill” is that they chose to name the main female character “Peggy.” It’s just so perfectly out-of-touch.
I mean, can you imagine a bouncing little toddler named “Peggy” today? That name ONLY comes attached to older women with big, square glasses.
Yeah. Both my given names were in the top 5 for most of the 20th century, and are still in the top 20 (not that there was any choice involved - my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all had the same given names, and they appear with great regularly in earlier generations). My sisters’ names, while in the top 10/20 when they were named, are anywhere from 500-800 down now.
Girl’s names from my mother’s and grandmother’s generations of the family are mostly rare these days: Yvonne, Cecily, Winifred, (although Chloë has skyrocketed into the top 10 after being totally out of favour for years).
I’ve got my name a generation (maybe two) after the height of it’s popularity. I dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. I was still near the top in the 1950s and 1960s. Now I’m not even in the top 100. 
I have never met another person that shared either my grandmother’s or great grandmother’s names: Hazel and Maude.
I think that was the idea when my sister named her two daughters Hazel and Evelyn. My sister’s name is Jennifer, and she was born in 1977. She very often had another Jennifer in her class in school growing up. I have a less common name, and I felt sorry for her always having another Jennifer in her class. I guess she didn’t particularly like it, and wanted to spare her kids from anything like that.
Indeed.
Though I started noticing a distinct increase in Isabellas/Isabelles about 10 years ago, long before Twilight mania came along. (I’m an Isabelle, FWIW)
It’s the bane of my existence… Growing up, it was still a very unusual name, so I never had to deal with hearing my name unless someone was speaking directly to me. Nowadays, walking through a crowd of young families is one hell of a confusing experience.
On the bright side, at least I don’t have to correct people who assume I’m Elizabeth anymore.
I went to school with a Hazel. My cousins, all older than I by several years, are Eleanor, Dorothy, Joseph, Constance, Victoria, Kitty, Carolyn, and Peggy. My grandmother’s name was Juliana, but everyone called her Julie. My father-in-law’s given name is Bobbie, but he goes by Bob. I often wonder what his mother was thinking…
My daughter, born in '85, had *FIVE *friends named Jessica when she was in middle school. That’s when I invoked the Jessica rule - she could only have friends by that name. 
I could give away something else about myself by naming my elementary school classmates: Mary Carol, Mary Claire, Mary Sue, Mary Jean… 
Are you Jewish? 
BTW, Nephew Robert 2 is called Bobbert by his sister. Robert by everyone else.
You mean to tell me I’m the only Lisa here?
You could always tell the Catholic families in my neighborhood, because the girls were Mary Kate, Mary Beth, Mary Teresa, Mary Pat…
When I was in school (graduated in '82), there were tons of Mary Beths.
… that’s one of my lastnames…
There’s a four-month-old Stella in my daughter’s baby room at day care.
My daughter’s name is Josephine Violet, two other old names that are making a resurgence.
Karen is one of my favorite names. Also Jessica.
The popularity of my first name has increased dramatically over time. according to that website, it was number 338 in the year I was born (1967) and has increased steadily every year - now it is number 38 in 2008.
In contrast, my wife’s name has decreased dramatically in popularity. It was number 28 in the year of her birth and it is now number 580.
Oh yeah - my dad’s name was Thaddeus. That was also the name of The Chief in Get Smart. Definitely not a name one hears often…
I recently had a series of professional encounters with a physical therapist named Hazel. (Shoulder injury.) She is a fairly young Filipino woman.
One of my nieces is named Lorna. There were some “Lorna Doone” jokes when people heard what my brother and SIL were planning to call their baby.
The girls I went to school with in the 70s had names like Lisa, Cheryl, Jodi and Lori.
Between this and your first list, you have named my mom’s sorority sisters almost entirely.
The only ones missing are:
Gail
Joyce
Sandra
Judy
I think it is a Spanish take on “Aurelia”, actually. I knew someone who named her daughter Arilla. Pronouced it “ah-REE-ah”.
My oldest son is named George, a rather old-fashioned name for a 3-year old, that you don’t often hear.
I was born in 1973 when Jason was at the height of it’s popularity. I somehow escaped having a lot of Jasons at my school. There was one other kid in my first grade class named Jason, and after that, I don’t think I had another, even in the same grade, until high school where there was 3 or 4.
From Kindergarten through 12th grade, there was at least 2 or 3 Michaels in every class. There was a lot of Jennifers and Jessicas in grammar school.
There was one girl named Xiomara. I’ve never run across that name again, although the NameVoyager site shows it from 2000-2008 at around 80 ppm, but zero before 2000. She was from somewhere in Central America. Maybe the recent influx of Spanish speaking people in the U.S. has brought it’s popularity up.
I know a bunch of Henrys, but they’re all 10 to 30 years older than I am.
A lot of the names listed don’t seem all that strange to me, but I guess I’m at that age where I know all of these old people with old names. The names that I think of as really old are Gertrude, Bertrand, Elmer, Alice, Lloyd, Alene, Amelia and Wanda and sure enough, they peaked in the 1890s to the 1920s (all names of my grandparents, great-grandparents and great aunts/uncles).