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Re: Charlotte?
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I wonder that myself, but I guess they like it for the same reasons they also seem to love Amelia, Lillian and Julia: because they are old-fashioned in a Victorian-dollhouse kind of way.
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Julia is old fashioned? I always thought that was a common-ish name along the lines of like Hannah, Samantha, Allison, Sarah etc How strange to hear it called old fashioned lol
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Well, it is common and always has been to one degree or another. But it is old-fashioned. You could picture a Victorian-dollhouse character named Julia, or for that matter, Hannah or Sarah, but not Allison and only a small chance of Samantha.
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Hannah for sure, that was my paternal grandmother's name.
Julia is ok, though I don't like it much;I prefer Julie, which is quite common here. Sort of a sparkly name, possibly because of a childhood playmate of my daughter's, who was a spark and a half.She grew up to be a fashion model,in Germany. :-)
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FWIW, I think of Julia as one of the few timeless names out there along with Catherine / Katherine, Elisabeth / Elizabeth, Laura, Rebecca, Sara / Sarah and Maria. If I were to see these names written, I'd have absolutely no idea how old the bearers were.
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ditto
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