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I also know a Jessica who is about 80. I think the name has been in use ever since Shakespeare invented it and in the early 1900s when Jessie was extremely common it doesn't seem odd to me that some parents would have used Jessica too. It was definitely known due to the plays.
I know a 40 year old named Ava (her mom liked Ava Gardner) who has a daughter named Jamie who is 5. I always thought that was the wrong way around and would make much more sense if the mom were Jamie and the daughter Ava. I was also surprised for someone with such an at the time uncommon name to choose something dated like Jamie.
The other one I can think of is a woman in her mid 30s with the young sounding name of Kaya who named her just recently born daughter Lisa which is super 70s to me.
My friend's grandma is in her 60s and named Vondell which sounds very last name-ish to me and I think a famous actor (James something, I always forget the surname) had a daughter in the 50s named Portland.
Hayley Mills also has an unusually young sounding name which was her mom's maiden name. Her sister is Juliet. I know a girl named Sidney who was born in 1970 which is also quite uncommon.
I know a 40 year old named Ava (her mom liked Ava Gardner) who has a daughter named Jamie who is 5. I always thought that was the wrong way around and would make much more sense if the mom were Jamie and the daughter Ava. I was also surprised for someone with such an at the time uncommon name to choose something dated like Jamie.
The other one I can think of is a woman in her mid 30s with the young sounding name of Kaya who named her just recently born daughter Lisa which is super 70s to me.
My friend's grandma is in her 60s and named Vondell which sounds very last name-ish to me and I think a famous actor (James something, I always forget the surname) had a daughter in the 50s named Portland.
Hayley Mills also has an unusually young sounding name which was her mom's maiden name. Her sister is Juliet. I know a girl named Sidney who was born in 1970 which is also quite uncommon.
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My mother had a very unusual name for her generation (Zoe) and it remained unusual for a couple of generations after hers. She gave all of her children names that, while not dated at the time she used them, were popular at the time. She really really hated having an unusual name and I think for that reason she did not want to give her children unusual names. Not everyone likes having an unusual name. She'd be so surprised if she were alive now, to see that she has the trendy popular name and all of her daughters have the dated, old-lady names, lol.
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