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Re: Unexpected names

by KittyLove301 (BuckeyedPeach86)

12/8/2016, 9:23 AM

Vernon - thirty-something guy I met a few months back
Nelson - the first name of my bone doctor; he's easily in his seventies
Payton (m) - a coworker of mine, who's like sixty

Madison (f) - she'd be about my age now, but she was a classmate of mine in grade school (I forget which grade)
Devin (f) - speech therapist from like twelve years ago; she was probably born in the 80s, when Devin wasn't very common (if at all) for girls
Phoebe - an old, late family friend who was in her nineties; Phoebe on an old lady strikes me as very weird

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- Tisiphone (guest) +1

12/8/2016, 10:40 AM

Phoebe was very popular with the Victorians, in the UK at least

My grandfather's name was Peyton (different spelling). He was born in the 1920s. It was a family name for males and has been used a lot, going back as far as the 1860s at least

- KittyLove301 (BuckeyedPeach86)

12/8/2016, 11:15 AM

I didn't know that about Phoebe! Huh...

- queenv

12/8/2016, 9:36 AM

Nelson does not seem unexpected as a name for a man in his seventies. In fact, Nelson has never been very popular, but it was most popular in the 1940s, so it seems about right for a man that age to be named Nelson.

When I was in the fifth grade, I had a crush on a classmate named Nelson -- he'd be in his mid-fifties now. I wonder if I can find him on FB, lol.

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