Old Fashioned Names???? Just an observation.... I remember growing up, in rural Oklahoma, the women neighbors had unforgetable names, like Emma, Florence, Ethel, Minnie, Clara, Bertha. Bessie, Grace, Ida, Mabel, Edna, and Nellie. The men had names like Orville, Nathan, Walter, Arthur, Fred, Albert, Clarence, Roy, Louis, and Samuel. And husbands and wives were referred to 'togehter', like Orville and Ethel, or Arthur and Ida... you seldom heard them referred to separately for any reason... unless illness was involved...like "Nellie has the cancer" ... or, for the women, cooking... "Bertha makes a great Pumpkin Pie!" ... Nowadays, it's Travis, and Clint, and Desariee and Amber, so on... Not suggesting that anyone name their son Orville.... or their daughter Bertha... but my have times changed.... Again, just an observation... Mike in Kuwait
I spend most of my time at work in rural Oklahoma and Texas. The old fashioned names are still there. These trips are like a time machine for me, it's a treat to see how some places are frozen in time.
I was raised in Oklahoma and so was my father. He had 12 brothers and sisters all born between 1909-27. There names were Calvin, Horace, Orice Dell, Hanford, Linus, Arley, Robert, Della, Bessie, Sidney, Harry, Nora and my father whose name was I. J. He was the youngest and always said by the time he came along, they had run out of names. There were certainly no Justin's or Caitlynn's in this group. They were all characters and I can think of a funny story about each one of them. They are all gone now and I am sure they would be surprised at some of the names their great grandchildren have. When I was in school during the 50-60's my classmates had names like Donnie, Bob, Kenny, Johnny, Ronnie, Linda, Susie, Kay and Sharon. Names have really changed. Especially for the girls.
Names are trendy.... For a while it was "Tough guy" names like Cole, Kent, Cody, Kyle, Jake and Zach. The girls were "Sterling, Madison, Brittany, etc...... School roll call sounded like it came out of People magazine! Where are all the Johns, Toms, Roberts, Michaels and Williams?
Prior to my daughters conception, my wife and I found something to agree upon. It is actually a masculine name but I find it to be very smooth and characteristic of a fine female name. Don't tell my daughter but it comes from a can of oil. Kendall 18 years later, she has had opportunity to both love it and hate it. We are now starting to see a few more. Interesting. Never did come up with an interesting name for my Son. He got stuck with a more common one. Dylan
My youngest daughter (age 7) is named Emma (after my grandmother....German- Kansas farmer) and there is another Emma across the road about the same age. And there is a Grace that pitches for the high school softball team. I actually think Emma is one of the more popular names around here in the last few years.
Watching college football on the weekend I swear i hear this Key-shawn Re-shawn nee-shawn pre-shawn bre-shawn kay=shawn ray-shawn we-shawn those were just the wide receivers
Both of my sisters have off the wall names. I have to this day NEVER found another person with the same name as my sisters. My step father said he came up with the names during a dream. My daughter name is also an odd name and I have not met another person with her name yet. Both of my sisters names sound very African American, but my step father was raised by African American...my step grand parents, the cox's. They were really nice people and my grandmother was an awesome cook!
What message does it give a child when the parents can't even spell the kid's name right? And don't be surprised at the results, if you give your daughter a "stripper" name. (I've never met a PhD named "Tiphannie". )
When we named our daughter Zoe 9 years ago it was not a very popular name now it is like the 60th most popular name for girls. Her middle name is Wednesday so if her first name gets too popular she can always use her middle name.
Mine was 'Trevor'... an old Welsh name. I legally changed it to 'Tad' a few years ago, since that's what I've gone by for almost 30 years, and never looked back. Since I also legally dropped my middle name at the same time (Alexander), I can now spell my name with a Scrabble hand (7 letters total)! :lol: I like it better, and others seem to as well. Plus it's easier for the undereducated to spell! -Tad Cody
