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HelpRe: "Old-Lady names" ... Should they stay dead?
in reply to a message by Joiya
Ethel: Incredibly ugly. It's not even old-lady-chic now, it's a joke.
Freda: Ugly.
Maud: Certain types of people swoon over this name but it has the ugliest sound.
Irma: Like trying to suppress a yawn.
Gladys: I'd never use it or want it for my own name, but there is just a slight touch of glamour to this.
Shirley: Again, I wouldn't want it for myself, but there is a sweetness to it.
Edna: No sweetness or glamour here. Sounds like a car trying to start.
Helen: Not bad, but I like Ellen much better.
Pearl: Ugly sound.
Mable: Mabel, Mabel, set the table ... might end up hipster-popular.
Muriel: Sounds like a pigeon gurgling.
Myrtle: I'd only name a pet turtle this.
Claudia: Not old-lady to me at all. Attractive if a little bit chilly.
Mildred: Its dead and it deserved to die.
Norma: Hate it. Was insanely popular in Oklahoma in the thirties or forties, namely as the combo Norma Jean.
Hilda: Ug lee.
Phyllis: Likewise.
Thelma: Yuck.
Arlene: Not terrible.
Frances: Kind of old-money-chic right now. Funny you should list Arlene and then Frances; Arlene Francis was a panelist on What's My Line way back.
Alma: See Thelma.
Harriet: I hear it's pretty popular in the UK but I don't think it'll ever make much of a comeback here. I don't know that it should.
Eunice: A big stuffy nose.
Freda: Ugly.
Maud: Certain types of people swoon over this name but it has the ugliest sound.
Irma: Like trying to suppress a yawn.
Gladys: I'd never use it or want it for my own name, but there is just a slight touch of glamour to this.
Shirley: Again, I wouldn't want it for myself, but there is a sweetness to it.
Edna: No sweetness or glamour here. Sounds like a car trying to start.
Helen: Not bad, but I like Ellen much better.
Pearl: Ugly sound.
Mable: Mabel, Mabel, set the table ... might end up hipster-popular.
Muriel: Sounds like a pigeon gurgling.
Myrtle: I'd only name a pet turtle this.
Claudia: Not old-lady to me at all. Attractive if a little bit chilly.
Mildred: Its dead and it deserved to die.
Norma: Hate it. Was insanely popular in Oklahoma in the thirties or forties, namely as the combo Norma Jean.
Hilda: Ug lee.
Phyllis: Likewise.
Thelma: Yuck.
Arlene: Not terrible.
Frances: Kind of old-money-chic right now. Funny you should list Arlene and then Frances; Arlene Francis was a panelist on What's My Line way back.
Alma: See Thelma.
Harriet: I hear it's pretty popular in the UK but I don't think it'll ever make much of a comeback here. I don't know that it should.
Eunice: A big stuffy nose.
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I would have assumed Norma Jean would be after Marilyn Monroe's real name, but these people would be too old. It's interesting because apparently Monroe's mother had named her after Norma Talmage and Jean Harlow, maybe more people had the same idea?
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Who knows? Here in Delaware, and in the nearby parts of Maryland, the trendy name for that generation is Margaret Ann. My stepfather has or had three different female relatives (some by marriage) of that age named Margaret Ann. They went by Margaret Ann (pronounced something like Margar-DAN) Marg, and one was Martannie.
Who knows? Here in Delaware, and in the nearby parts of Maryland, the trendy name for that generation is Margaret Ann. My stepfather has or had three different female relatives (some by marriage) of that age named Margaret Ann. They went by Margaret Ann (pronounced something like Margar-DAN) Marg, and one was Martannie.
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