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My sister named her youngest daughter, who is almost a year old now, Janine. I was surprised when I heard it, because it seems so dated, and she didn't give dated names to her other three daughters. When she spoke to me about it, she basically said that her husband really liked it and she decided to go along with him. But she also said that it's part of a new baby-naming trend called "retro-chic." That means using names that were popular in the forties and fifties, but not really popular. Not names that were in the top twenty-five then, but more like they were somewhere in the bottom fifty. And it doesn't mean using names that were popular in the early 1900s, such as Hazel or Gladys, but forties and fifties type names.
Have you ever heard of this trend? What do you think of Janine? Is it ready for a comeback?