Kudos on the username/post combo…
ZING!
Thank you!
Screw your Bobs, Cheryls, etc. Wha happened to good old names like Sholto, Algernon, Nigel, and Winifred? Or Tatiana, Hedwig, and Calpurnia?
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.
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.
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.
Increase
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
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,
While I certainly don’t intend to make light of the recent deaths via assisted suicide of English musician Edward Downes and his wife, I had to note for this thread that the couple named their son Caractacus and their daughter Boudicca.
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.
I love the Baby Name Wizard. It appears that “Eulalie” hasn’t been popular since last century.
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”.
I wanted a Dorcas. But I’m not actually that cruel to my children. It peaked in popularity in 1920.
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.
Oh, I know all about Eulalie.