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[Opinions] Re: Donna Jo Wdyt?

by Manipura (glaucous)

6/20/2023, 6:07 PM

It wasn't THAT weird in the 80s. I've only known 2 Donnas. One had siblings named Kristen, Ashley, and Andrew. The other had a brother named Shane.

It would've been near the top 100 still when DJ was supposed to have been born in the 70s, though I never knew her name was Donna anyway.

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- RoxStar +3

6/21/2023, 6:45 AM

I have an aunt named Donna, and almost all the Donnas I've known have been around her age. I know of one Donna whose maybe a year older than my husband, who was born in 1977. And there was a girl I graduated high school with named Jadonna.
Kristen and Ashley do not at all sound like Donna's sisters; they sound like Donna's daughters.

- Manipura (glaucous) +2

6/21/2023, 10:52 AM

Ok, but it was being used about as much when DJ would have been born as Savannah is being used now, and I think if a TV show used Savannah in 10 years for a 10 year old (maybe with a younger sister named Harper or Willow) it wouldn't seem that wacky to me.

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- Dianatiger +1

6/21/2023, 1:15 PM

Yeah just a little bit decidedly dated next to her siblings names imo. Like Pamela, Ashley and Kristen. Not bad but just a lil bit off kilter.

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- Manipura (glaucous)

6/21/2023, 1:47 PM

Sure - Pamela, Michelle, Donna, Amy, Jennifer, Stephanie, Kristen, Ashley - none of those strike me as unlikely to be 70s-80s names in the same family. Though Michelle, Pamela, Donna, Amy, Stephanie, Jennifer all sound potentially a generation older to me than Ashley, and Donna and Pamela sound most dated to me nowadays.

This message was edited 6/21/2023, 6:16 PM

- )( (guest)

6/20/2023, 6:22 PM

I knew a Donna born in 1983!

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