<p>The baby name graph is great. Apparently my name peaked the year I was born. But it hardly existed (as a girl’s name, anyway, till 1940.) It’s been middling popular since, but I hardly ever meet anyone younger with it.</p>
<p>Oh gosh, “Jizelle”!!</p>
<p>When I was expecting 8 yrs ago, I enjoyed this website:</p>
<p>[Most</a> Popular Baby Names 2008 - BabyNames.com](<a href=“Most Popular Baby Names of 2023”>Most Popular Baby Names of 2023)</p>
<p>Also, the Soc Security Admin has a site which allows you to search for the most popular names for any given year – going back over 100 years.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/[/url]”>http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/</a></p>
<p>I have to wonder how the Internet is affecting name choices. Giving a child a common name is one way to assure some privacy, if the surname is fairly common, too, I would think. OTOH, maybe parents want their children to have names that will pop out in a search?</p>
<p>I named my daughter with a first and a middle name but hubby and I couldn’t agree on which order, so we kept crossing out and sending it down to the office of the hospital, then running down to get it again and switch. It was comical. We ultimately decided on a classic name with Samantha as a middle name, which worked well because in her small school there were four Samanthas in her class. The little guy has a classic name, as well, but D1 has a trendy, gender-neutral name that I still think fits but she’s not wild about.</p>
<p>Every third kid here is named “Gianna” which is pretty as “Jonna” as it’s supposed to be pronounced, but here it’s “Gee-YA-nuh” which sounds like nails on a chalkboard.</p>
<p>My ex-H’s list of names for our Ds (both born in the 90s) were all from the OP’s “mother generation” list (either on the list, or clearly of that generation). My friend labeled his list “sensible shoes” names.</p>
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<p>I’m a Susan born in 1961. Multiple Susan’s throughout my education. Nearly EVERY Susan I meet is in her 40’s or 50’s!</p>
<p>Primetime, my GM’s were Gertrude and Bertha! Great Aunts included Rose, Fanny, and Esther. The two older sisters in “Meet Me in St. Louis” were Rose and Esther. And of course there was Fanny Brice. </p>
<p>Funny to see how popular my name was until the early 60’s - never considered it old-fashioned before! And after that I guess no one wanted to name their daughter after Monroe…</p>
<p>Yes, at some point the nursing homes will be filled with Tiffanies and Ashleys. Kelsey/Kelsi/etc. seems to be very popular at the HS level - I think last year on the drill team there were four of them with three different spellings.</p>
<p>All of our kids were named from the family tree. Lovely names that were popular maybe 100-130 years ago. </p>
<p>My grandmother’s name was Hazel…we never considered using it but a friend’s niece just named her baby Hazel. </p>
<p>We also have a Sadie in the family tree that I assume will be snatched up by the next generation. </p>
<p>BTW, I just heard that the most popular boy’s name in London, Brussels and Amsterdam is Mohammed. It is actually the most popular male name in the world.</p>
<p>missypie–Sadie has been (almost) in the top 100 for popularily for the past 2 years!</p>
<p>My grandmother’s name was Mazie. I can’t imagine anyone using that! Her sons were Clyde, Quentin and Delbert. I’m sure those names are safe, too.</p>
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<p>Right…the last girl of “our generation” was born 15 years ago, when it still sounded too “old lady”. Of course, it may never be used if it gets “too” popular.</p>
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<p>Yeah, my dad’s family has Eugene, Clarence and Maurice.</p>
<p>It would be interesting to think of names so dorky that they’ll never come back…I nominate Otis, Elmer and Beulah. But who knows, they may top the charts in a few years.</p>
<p>zoosermom–our friends from England named their daughter Maisie! It’s apparently not that unusual, over there.</p>
<p>My parent’s beagle is named Mazie or Maise, not sure how they spell it. :)</p>
<p>My husband’s name is on Missypie’s dorky list. Oddly enough, it was also my grandfather’s name.</p>
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<p>Delbert could possibly go on that list except we called him “Uncle Del”. “Del” is actually a nice name IMHO. (Of course, we all liked Uncle Del which may be why I like the name.) Like “Millie” for “Mildred”, how do you get around naming your child the longer version and simply naming them the more acceptable name? Seems like the assumptions about “Millie” being a shortened version of “Mildred” wouldn’t be worth the hassle of explaining over and over: “Not Mildred. Millie. Yes, that’s my legal name. No, it’s not a nickname. See here’s my driver’s license/birth certificate/passport.”</p>
<p>speaking of truly dorky, try Mabel and Otto. Both names used by a young woman I know for her two kids born in the late 90s. (and emphatically NOT family names) I wonder how they’re coping in middle school these days…</p>
<p>We have another friend from Europe whose daughter is Millie!!! Don’t know if it’s a short version. Those retro names seem big in some countries.</p>
<p>I should add that my name on the popularity chart seemed to peak only once - about 20 years before my parents gave me the name. Barely even a nibble before and after that 20-25 span when it was popular. I always though my name was a popular one. Hmmm . . . DS’s name peaked in the second half of the nineteenth century and then again at the end of the twentieth century. I thought his name was uncommon. I guess his name is a classic. Who knew?! I am a little worried my name might be considered dorky. :D</p>
<p>My parents gave me a fairly unusual name back in the late 50’s. Now it’s a common name with the black population. I’m white. I just love meeting young black women with my name and saying, “Hey, that’s my name, too”, and getting that momentary look of surprise.</p>