Not sure which part of the forum to put this, but I shall try this part...
It's amazing how names go into fashion and go out of fashion just as quickly.
My own name of George was probably one of the least fashionable when I was born back in 1978, and I suppose the only George who was doing the rounds back then were Brian Murphy's character in George and Mildred.
I bet that pirate radio had made the name Caroline popular in the mid 1960s, and Kylie and Jason's names became popular in the late 1980s for all the obvious reasons. Louise Brown's IVF birth in 1978 probably made that name popular as well.
I have noticed that women's names go out of fashion a lot more quickly than men's names do. The number of monarchs and Archbishops of Canterbury with familiar names from centuries ago such as Henry, William and Simon just don't feel alien to a present-day person - and Johns, Davids, and Peters have remained neutral in the same respect, although they have gone down the list of popular names in recent years.
Who would name their baby girl Edna, Gertrude or Doris these days, for example? I doubt that anyone would have since the Second World War.
I was watching on YouTube a children's game show from around 1983 and two of the teenage boy's names were Keith and Alan, which are not surprisingly, names that I would associate with being-middle aged men these days.
And I remember this young boy asking his mother or gran whether he will have the same name when he is elderly, or whether he will be called Percy or some name like that.
I am basically talking about names that were popular and fashionable in the 1970s and 1980s, and are probably not so popular nowadays. Perhaps there was a flurry of them born at the same time, and one shared a school year or even a class with a multiple number of people with the same name. Why indeed do names go out of fashion?
But then, what's in a name as they say?
It's amazing how names go into fashion and go out of fashion just as quickly.
My own name of George was probably one of the least fashionable when I was born back in 1978, and I suppose the only George who was doing the rounds back then were Brian Murphy's character in George and Mildred.
I bet that pirate radio had made the name Caroline popular in the mid 1960s, and Kylie and Jason's names became popular in the late 1980s for all the obvious reasons. Louise Brown's IVF birth in 1978 probably made that name popular as well.
I have noticed that women's names go out of fashion a lot more quickly than men's names do. The number of monarchs and Archbishops of Canterbury with familiar names from centuries ago such as Henry, William and Simon just don't feel alien to a present-day person - and Johns, Davids, and Peters have remained neutral in the same respect, although they have gone down the list of popular names in recent years.
Who would name their baby girl Edna, Gertrude or Doris these days, for example? I doubt that anyone would have since the Second World War.
I was watching on YouTube a children's game show from around 1983 and two of the teenage boy's names were Keith and Alan, which are not surprisingly, names that I would associate with being-middle aged men these days.
And I remember this young boy asking his mother or gran whether he will have the same name when he is elderly, or whether he will be called Percy or some name like that.
I am basically talking about names that were popular and fashionable in the 1970s and 1980s, and are probably not so popular nowadays. Perhaps there was a flurry of them born at the same time, and one shared a school year or even a class with a multiple number of people with the same name. Why indeed do names go out of fashion?
But then, what's in a name as they say?
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