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Helpnames ahead of their time ...
In the obituaries today, there's one for a woman named Karalee. Her nickname was Lee.
By the first name alone I would expect her to be no older than fifty, maybe. This lady was 83. And she had a sister, who I presume was born not too many years later than her, who was named Sidni. That's exactly how it appears in the newspaper.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
By the first name alone I would expect her to be no older than fifty, maybe. This lady was 83. And she had a sister, who I presume was born not too many years later than her, who was named Sidni. That's exactly how it appears in the newspaper.
"It's one thing to be open-minded and quite another to be so open-minded your brains fall out."--Dear Abby
"Let other people push you around, and you deserve whatever bad things happen after that."--Lauren Bacall
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They are unusual! It's always a little off putting when you see a name on totally the wrong age group.
The only female Addison I have ever met (I don't think it's nearly as popular in Australia on littlies as it is in the US anyway) was a woman in her 80s.
The only female Addison I have ever met (I don't think it's nearly as popular in Australia on littlies as it is in the US anyway) was a woman in her 80s.
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Wow, a Sidni in her 70s. That's striking.
They're not exactly ahead of their time, IMO. I'm under the impression that creative naming / spelling has been around for at least as long as the US has and probably longer. It's just that the names of people who go down in history tend not to be creative names ... either because they've been a tiny minority so it's unlikely, or because creative names tend to be given to people who don't become well-known. Take your pick ... I think I know what you'd pick.
I think creative naming was bound to take off, over time, like a contagion. A few people get creative at first, those kids grow up and a few more people see their names and sense the possibilities and want to name accordingly, and even more people meet those kids in their lifetimes ... etc. So the proportion grows, the styles become more familiar and less stigmatized, until creative naming saturates the population of people who would want to name creatively. I guess there is cultural change that makes creative naming appealing to more people, too - like the association between modern fame and a preference to name creatively - but I'm inclined to think sheer contagion came first. ymmv.
They're not exactly ahead of their time, IMO. I'm under the impression that creative naming / spelling has been around for at least as long as the US has and probably longer. It's just that the names of people who go down in history tend not to be creative names ... either because they've been a tiny minority so it's unlikely, or because creative names tend to be given to people who don't become well-known. Take your pick ... I think I know what you'd pick.
I think creative naming was bound to take off, over time, like a contagion. A few people get creative at first, those kids grow up and a few more people see their names and sense the possibilities and want to name accordingly, and even more people meet those kids in their lifetimes ... etc. So the proportion grows, the styles become more familiar and less stigmatized, until creative naming saturates the population of people who would want to name creatively. I guess there is cultural change that makes creative naming appealing to more people, too - like the association between modern fame and a preference to name creatively - but I'm inclined to think sheer contagion came first. ymmv.
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