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Help[Opinions] Re: Results of the Popular US Female Baby Names of the 1880s Polls, Ranked in Order of Biggest Falls in Popularity from Then to Now (according to BtN users)
in reply to a message by Barbara Q.
I'm sorry, but most (not all) of these names dropped because either they're nicknames, variant spellings, or because... they're just not that nice to the modern ear. I think a lot of these are, frankly, not naming names, pretty horrible.
That said, I don't mind:
Albertina
Albertine
Bina
Easter
Lera
Leta / Lita
Ola
Olinda
Parthenia
Sina
Trinidad
Zana
Zelpha
That said, I don't mind:
Albertina
Albertine
Bina
Easter
Lera
Leta / Lita
Ola
Olinda
Parthenia
Sina
Trinidad
Zana
Zelpha
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You know Carcosa?
Jk jk, but yeah I would agree that many, if not most of these are terrible- I also just think people might be being a smidge silly when they act like "Lynda" is some kind of hideous abomination of a name- I mean, Hortense and Ethyl made the cut, lmao. Anyway, I wasn't making a blanket defense of these names, I find them to be of historical interest. The voters have spoken already.
Jk jk, but yeah I would agree that many, if not most of these are terrible- I also just think people might be being a smidge silly when they act like "Lynda" is some kind of hideous abomination of a name- I mean, Hortense and Ethyl made the cut, lmao. Anyway, I wasn't making a blanket defense of these names, I find them to be of historical interest. The voters have spoken already.