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Help[Opinions] Re: Twins: WDYT?
in reply to a message by Anneza
I love them! They don't seem that different to me. I'd assume the middle names were honouring grandmothers perhaps?
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Several people have suggested that the middle names are honoring grandmothers. Most women are about fifty to sixty years old when they become grandmothers. I'm fifty-one, and I know that Dorothy and Edna were decidedly not popular names for my age group and up to ten years older. I have never known a Dorothy or an Edna my age or a little older. So while the names may be honoring, I think it's unlikely that they are honoring grandmothers. Perhaps great-grandmothers. Though, of course, I don't know for sure, it's just an educated guess.
Unless the popularity statistics for Dorothy and Edna have been drastically different in Australia than the US. I couldn't find any data on that.
Unless the popularity statistics for Dorothy and Edna have been drastically different in Australia than the US. I couldn't find any data on that.
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Given that my mother is into her fifties now, just, and I'm not forseeing being a parent within the next ten years (I mean no offense here, but I'm a difficult, "capricious" person and I panic at the idea of finding a life partner let alone dipping my toes amongst other parts into the gene pool. I'm no grown up.), I worry at that norm... and then I look at the number of sprogs springing up in my age group, have a little cry and realise you must be right. Damn you, human fertility, damn you.
I do agree that they seem really rather old-fashioned names for that demographic. I think I know a few Dorothys around the 60 mark, but given that they're that much older than my folks, it kind of proves the point. Hmmm...
Melissa Dorothy is okay, kinda cute and fun to look at written down. I don't care for Phoebe Edna, but that's just me.
I do agree that they seem really rather old-fashioned names for that demographic. I think I know a few Dorothys around the 60 mark, but given that they're that much older than my folks, it kind of proves the point. Hmmm...
Melissa Dorothy is okay, kinda cute and fun to look at written down. I don't care for Phoebe Edna, but that's just me.
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Agree - great grandmothers
I'm about the average age for new mothers in Australia at the moment.
Dorothy was still present in my mother's decade (50s), but down to 89th. Edna didn't appear at all. Dorothy was 23rd in the 40s and 5th in the 30s, and in the 30s Edna also featured, around the 50th mark. My grandmothers were born in the mid-to-late 1920s, so that would seem about right for many current, new great-grandmothers.
I'm about the average age for new mothers in Australia at the moment.
Dorothy was still present in my mother's decade (50s), but down to 89th. Edna didn't appear at all. Dorothy was 23rd in the 40s and 5th in the 30s, and in the 30s Edna also featured, around the 50th mark. My grandmothers were born in the mid-to-late 1920s, so that would seem about right for many current, new great-grandmothers.
This message was edited 5/10/2012, 9:40 AM
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