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in reply to a message by summitseeker
I think Gladys and Harvey are usable.
I think the only times I'd avoid a name because of datedness are:
- when it's dated as a trendy-name from the 3 decades before the birth of a girl, and has fallen quite far out of style and doesn't look likely to come back soon. Like, I think this would be a bad year to name a girl Shelby, Crystal, Casey, Kelsey, Chelsea, Caitlin, or Breanna. Wait another 30 or 40 years.
- when it became unfashionable in conjunction with being associated with something felt to be suggestive, ridiculous, ugly etc, at least to the generation doing the naming (Dick, Fanny, Adolf, Gaylord, Dorcas ... maybe even names like Ronald, Bertha, Kermit, Patsy)
- mirfak
I think the only times I'd avoid a name because of datedness are:
- when it's dated as a trendy-name from the 3 decades before the birth of a girl, and has fallen quite far out of style and doesn't look likely to come back soon. Like, I think this would be a bad year to name a girl Shelby, Crystal, Casey, Kelsey, Chelsea, Caitlin, or Breanna. Wait another 30 or 40 years.
- when it became unfashionable in conjunction with being associated with something felt to be suggestive, ridiculous, ugly etc, at least to the generation doing the naming (Dick, Fanny, Adolf, Gaylord, Dorcas ... maybe even names like Ronald, Bertha, Kermit, Patsy)
- mirfak
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I'd agree with this for the most part. Some names (from the same time period), however, are more "dated" than others. I was born in the late 80s and grew up with several girls named Emma and Grace, even though these names were considered out of fashion then. They never fell out of the top 1000.
Beulah, on the other hand, would have stood out. So would Linda and Cheryl.
Beulah, on the other hand, would have stood out. So would Linda and Cheryl.
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