A friend of mine sent me this link: http://time.com/3856405/baby-name-popularity/#
You fill it out with your name, the year you were born, and your gender. From there, it gives the popularity of your name for the year you were born, and then gives the name in each decade that matched the popularity. So if your name was the 32nd most popular in the year you were born, it would give you the 32nd most popular name in each of the decades. Kind of fun to see!
My list went like this:
Name today would be Aurora (ew, ew, ew ... and sorry to any Auroras out there)
2000s would be Nancy (really?)
1990s would be Jacquelyn
1980s would be Yvonne
1970s would be Tonia
1960s would be Grace (I like!)
1950s would be Francine
1940s would be Irma
1930s would be Maggie (cute!)
1920s would be Angeline
1910s would be Johnnie
1900s would be Rena (huh?)
And 1890s would be Sue
It's kind of interesting to see how the trends go.
Now, if I put in my real name my list would be like this:
Name today would be Gabriella
2000s would be Briana
1990s would be Kristina
1980s would be Kristy
1970s would be Kristen
1960s would be Gloria
1950s would be Doris (Day?!)
1940s would be June
1930s would be Beatrice
1920s would be Marian
1900s would be Beulah (no, no, no!)
1900s would be Maude
1890s would be Lydia (pretty!)
Fun, huh? So, then I put in my middle name just for the heck of it. (The middle name that I really have, but that the government doesn't recognize? Yeah, that one.) And this is how that list went:
Name today would be Martha
2000s would be Viridiana (excuse me?)
1990s would be Dianne
1980s would be Anitra (what the?)
1970s would be Spring (um ... that's a season ...)
1960s would be Goldie (Hawn?!)
1950s would be Fredia
1940s would be Maxcine (the spelling?)
1930s would be Eilene
1920s would be Leocadia (are you kidding me right now?)
1910s would be Gayle
1900s would be Nezzie
1890s would be Rutha
You can just start calling me Nezzie now, thank you.
And finally, if I went by my Dad's nickname for me, the list would look like this:
Name today would be Nova (as in Super?)
2000s would be Aimee
1990s would be Kala (the spelling ... again)
1980s would be Wendi
1970s would be Lesa
1960s would be Clare
1950s would be Leola
1940s would be Nedra
1930s would be Augusta (kind of cool)
1920s would be Elsa (Anna's sister, you know - see Frozen, the movie)
1910s would be Claudie
1900s would be Winnifred
1890s would be Albertine
And Nezzie wins! Coolest name ever. Long live the Nezzter!
This is an interesting topic. Indeed, some of the names seem strange. But what's in a name, Nezzie? I recently used the newest software invention known as Relative Finder and it is amazing to see how I am related to most of the Wood Badge participants and staff that I recently attended. And then there is the idea of having our name engraven forevermore.
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