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toastmasterbone
03-05-2007, 04:50 PM
I don't know if this has been posted (but relegated to dial-up, I don't know much of anything on the Internets), but it's a pretty interesting look at name rankings to see where your/your kids' names chart across the last 100 years or so.

Just for s***s and giggles until we're off hiatus and play again.

Name Wizard (http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html)

Did anyone have a great grandparent named "Boss"? It hit popularity ranking #853 in the 1890s.
RIO
03-06-2007, 02:09 PM
"No name with RIO has been in the top 1000 in any decade." -- woo hoo!

Megan --

#717 : 1950,
#390 : 1960,
#89 : 1970s,
#14 : 1980s,
#10 : 1990s,
#30 : 2000s

I seem to be losing popularity. ;) Hey Toast, you're right about Boss. What an odd name! I've had some strange family names like Eltonhead (a GIRL'S name. yikes) and Dievertie, but Boss? No.

EDIT: Toast, if you type in "Agnes" for girls, you get the expected return, but dude, type in Agnes and you get a result for BOYS too. LOL!!! A Boy Named Sue (Agnes).
toastmasterbone
03-06-2007, 02:22 PM
Megan has been losing popularity because people are finally getting the memo that you're "one, singular sensation, every little step you take" and that the name cannot be used henceforth without written authorization from its true holder. :kiss:

EDIT: My grandfather knew a guy named Agnes. "He said that he was really big and lost his temper easily." No s***, Shylock; now how about that pound of flesh. :lol:

I shouldn't laugh. My grandmother is named Nina Ray, although her father wanted her named, simply, Ray. He masculinized the other daughters: Jo & Michael. :beatup:
RIO
03-06-2007, 02:33 PM
Megan has been losing popularity because people are finally getting the memo that you're "one, singular sensation, every little step you take" and that the name cannot be used henceforth without written authorization from its true holder. :kiss:

*does Chorus Line kicks*


EDIT: My grandfather knew a guy named Agnes. "He said that he was really big and lost his temper easily." No s***, Shylock; now how about that pound of flesh. :lol:

I shouldn't laugh. My grandmother is named Nina Ray, although her father wanted her named, simply, Ray. He masculinized the other daughters: Jo & Michael. :beatup:


A dude named Agnes. Wow, no wonder he had a short fuse. I knew boys named Ashley, Leslie, Carey, Shannon, but no Agnes.... "boying" up girl names was popular back in the early 1900s, wasnt it? I seem to recall Billie being a big name for girls.
nccanes
03-06-2007, 03:49 PM
I love this thing! Someone showed me it a long time ago and I never knew "where it was"

I love how they aggregate the similar names so you can see how many "Sara(h)"s there are by just typing Sara

My kids have pretty popular names. I thought kid 1 would be more common, but it's kid 2 that has that - and I expected the reverse.

This thing is a real time killer. :lol:
goalie33
03-06-2007, 04:55 PM
Hey Toast, you're right about Boss. What an odd name! I've had some strange family names like Eltonhead (a GIRL'S name. yikes) and Dievertie, but Boss? No.

Near the corner of Duraleigh and Edwards Mill, there's a York Properties sign and the agent's name is Boss Poe. I drove by it today and had to do a double take.
queenmerry
03-06-2007, 06:43 PM
I seem to be losing popularity. ;) Hey Toast, you're right about Boss. What an odd name! I've had some strange family names like Eltonhead (a GIRL'S name. yikes) and Dievertie, but Boss? No.


How about poor Mary? My biblical moniker was number one from the 1880's to the 1960's when it fell to number 2. As of 2005 it dropped to 73. ;)

I have a tendency to judge bands by whether or not they have a "Mary" song, but maybe that's the narcissisist in me.

One of my favorite names odd names is Hortense. Heaven forbid I give birth to a female child... ;) Nah...seriously, never fear, y'all...my daughter would be named Bettie...after my grandma.

One of my pals from grade school was named Polly Ljnora. It fit...haha!
toastmasterbone
03-06-2007, 07:46 PM
Mary, Mary... Why ya' buggin'?

Hortense? Really? Like, a nervous lady of the evening?
SouthernHockeyChick
03-06-2007, 08:05 PM
I have a tendency to judge bands by whether or not they have a "Mary" song, but maybe that's the narcissisist in me.


Nah, I do the same thing with whether they have (or regularly cover) a song about redheads. :D

I have the #7 most popular girl name of the 1970s. Yay me. I guess that explains why 3 of my best friends growing up had the same name?

Funny, my weird family names (Gurney, Roby) aren't even on there. Who knew my little country grandparents were so creative! :lol:
queenmerry
03-06-2007, 08:22 PM
Mary, Mary... Why ya' buggin'?

Hortense? Really? Like, a nervous lady of the evening?

Hahaha! I never really thought about what Hortense could actually mean. Nice catch there Toast. :)

Along those same lines, I went to high school with a girl named Juanita Pigg. She later legally changed her last name to something that had nothing to do with pork products. For some reason, I always think of her when I see Stormy on the ice...
RIO
03-07-2007, 12:37 PM
I have a tendency to judge bands by whether or not they have a "Mary" song, but maybe that's the narcissisist in me.

LOL!!


my daughter would be named Bettie...after my grandma.


Betty's a great name. Lots of attitude. Find a man with the last name of Page and you're set!
caniac369
03-07-2007, 04:12 PM
The names we have choosen are Kaitlyn for a girl and William (after my brother) if it's a boy.
Shell
03-07-2007, 11:16 PM
Those are both great names Erin!!:spin:
Fernando da Silva
03-09-2007, 07:06 PM
At least Fernando has gained popularity in EA Sports' Madden and NHL series, now i can edit me and the guy says my name!!!

OK, back to praying room where i hope a player last named<i>da Silva</i> make the big leagues...
kermelbar
03-10-2007, 06:39 PM
Not surprisingly, "Kerri" had a monster peak in the '70s -- part of the J and K naming pattern of that decade -- with a rank of 187. It didn't even crack the top 1000 in '03, but that's OK. It means I don't have to listen to mothers scream my name at the grocery store. The "normal" spelling of Carrie hit as high as 40 in the 1890s and 41 in the 1970s.

re: Boss

My dad's dad was Glow, which is a name I've never heard of anywhere else. He passed away when I was two and I believe my great-grandparents were long gone by then, too, so I have no idea where it came from. My last name is German, but I'm a Heinz 57/West Virginia mutt, so I don't think it's tied into the Old Country.