"Old-fashioned" sounding girls' names are very in right now, so a comeback for Susan wouldn't surprise me at all.
I'd lay odds against Virginia. Want unique? Give them my name.
Handsome brooding vampire guy has to swoop in all sensitive mouth and overhanging forehead. How 'bout leaving some scraps for the homely-looking fellows who don't turn evil when they get some?
Doyle ,'Life of the Party'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Ginger - Jan 07, 2009 7:23:45 am PST #9759 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
P.M. Marc - Jan 07, 2009 7:24:34 am PST #9760 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I work with a Kip. Only one I have ever met.
Glamcookie - Jan 07, 2009 7:25:12 am PST #9761 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Friends of mine are due in Feb and are having a boy. The guy said absolutely no biblical names, making naming the child difficult. They first settled on Lester (even after "the molester" was pointed out to them), and then switched to Harvey. So there is about to be a newborn Harvey. That just amuses the hell out of me. I know Harvey will be kick ass, though, so it won't matter.
Tom Scola - Jan 07, 2009 7:30:10 am PST #9762 of 10002
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
Banana-fana-fo-fayden.
DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 7:30:37 am PST #9763 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Banana-fana-fo-fayden.
Hayden!
Kathy A - Jan 07, 2009 7:30:38 am PST #9764 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Back in the late '50s/early '60s, there was a sportswriter for the Chicago Sun-Times whose first name was Kip, which is where my mom saw it and liked it enough to use it. There were issues (I think with my grandma, though I'm not sure about that) with the name being so short and seemingly informal, so Mom made his official name Kipley, shortened to Kip for everyday.
If he was a girl, the name was going to be Kimber Leigh, so she had a thing for unusual names. What can I say--she was only 21 when she had him!
Jesse - Jan 07, 2009 7:31:15 am PST #9765 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The renewed popularity of Lillian makes me wonder what's up with Marguerite -- my (born in 1919) grandmother is a Marguerite, has a friend Marguerite, and has had several friends named Lillian. So I figure they must have both been pretty popular in those days, so why not come back together?
DavidS - Jan 07, 2009 7:34:07 am PST #9766 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So I figure they must have both been pretty popular in those days, so why not come back together?
One shortens to Lilly, the other to Marge.
beekaytee - Jan 07, 2009 7:34:25 am PST #9767 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Old fashioned girls names are all the rage in this 'hood. I know two Claras under the age of 4, a Helen and a Charlotte.
I know two male Haydens, which is weird, since that is the name of the store above which I live.
You named your kid after the liquor store? Dude. Hardcore.
Amy - Jan 07, 2009 7:36:49 am PST #9768 of 10002
Because books.
I love Lillian, and I love Clara, too. Also, strangely, Mabel, which I think is due for a comeback. I don't like Edith as much as I like Edie, though.
So many friends wanted us to name our boys Harvey. Because of the whole Harvey Garvey that would result, obviously. We politely refrained.