Message: "Sightings" - Behind the Name

Sightings

by New_Chloe

1/21/2015, 5:10 PM

I'm working in a new office where I have to go through a lot of old paperwork. These are some names that jumped out at me:

(also fyi for context, these are all names of adults who worked in government positions at the time; some genders of the bearers unknown)

1960's:

Duff
Win
Buck
Syd (Sidney, m)
Gurney

1970's:

Mavis
Lance
Kalju (m)
Rafe
Gudrun

1980's:

Edythe
Rem
Aydon
Lecil
Zilpha
Hazen
Leonce
Garde
Nolan
Oryssia
Rollie
Iveline (Yveline in the French translation)
Reeves
Anneke
Micheline
Florent

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- kudriashkajo (jodirae)

1/22/2015, 12:09 PM

Hazen?? I just met a little Hazen (boy) at a wedding this weekend. Weird.
Rem is very sweet.
Reeves is very handsome.
Gurney? Awww. :(

- Pie

1/22/2015, 7:58 AM

Great list! some fascinating ones in there. I just looked up Kalju and the comments make me wonder if it meant the same thing in the 70s? (apparently it means rock, but also 'bald') Also, wikipedia says Rem was an Egyptian fish god. :)
I love Mavis. Florent, Yveline & Micheline are nice too.

- Qasim Yushua (Ali Hassan)

1/22/2015, 7:28 AM

I'm afraid the only one I like is Mavis

- Wordsmith

1/21/2015, 5:15 PM

I'm fawning over Syd, Mavis, Kalju, Gudrun, Edythe, Zilpha, Leonce, Yveline, Anneke, Micheline, and Florent.

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