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 Yes.....you mean my favorite website to completely "lose myself" in???  Some people drink or smoke....I look up name on the SS website (or stare at the USPS website, picking out all my favorite stamps!
I LOVE the history of names too!
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Here are some of my favorites.....
Evelyn
Fiona
Francine
Loretta
Lorena
Marguerite (I've come close on this one )
Marjorie
Eleanor
When I was a freshman in college and home for Christmas vacation, my parent's house completely burned down on Christmas Day. But.......guess what I had taken with me to college that didn't burn in the fire???    ......the three little "name pamphlets" from the 60's that my mom acquired somehow when she was pregnant with her first baby....the exact ones that she had written on, made notes, lists, etc!!!!!. WHY ON EARTH WOULD I TAKE THOSE WITH ME TO COLLEGE?????  We will NEVER KNOW!!!!  But, they are still with us today because they were in my dorm room! I've used them with each pregnancy, and dh GROANS when I pull them out and start paging through them. "Am I going to have to look at those women with the buffant hair on the covers of those books AGAIN?" he asks!!!
But, I LOVE those books....they don't have any of the weird "new" names in them. Just traditional names.
I LOVE Ivy.....hmmm....that might have to get added to the list
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Funny US/UK differences. Over here, Fiona is a common name among my generation (30-something).
I'm amused that I might be encouraging a little Ivy revival in the US!
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doris wrote:
Funny US/UK differences. Over here, Fiona is a common name among my generation (30-something).
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Here in Australia the same... I only ever had one year where I was one of a group (last year of primary school there were three of us in one class.) But I pretty much always knew other Fionas above and below me.
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I mentioned this on the grandmother thread, but I have an Ada, named for my paternal grandmother's mother. Now there's an oldie you don't hear all that much. We liked it because it was short and sweet and didn't seem to have a definite image attached to it -- an Ada could be anyone, we thought. And it's easy to spell, of course, though surprisingly, people have had trouble pronouncing it -- they want to say "Adda" or "Aida," and it's "AY-da." She likes having a unique name, in the same way she likes having red hair, though it irks her that she can't EVER find a magnet or a mug with her name on it.
My boys are Joel and Ben, just good and Biblical and easy to find on magnets. Ben often gets called just "B." My youngest daughter is Rachel, though we mostly call her (and she writes her name as) Ray. In fact, my older children refer to my younger children collectively as "Rabies," which is one unfortunate outcome I confess I had not remotely considered when naming them.
I love Ivy, too. I went to school with an Ivy, and to college with a Nell Ivy . . . old name meets small-town West Tennessee.
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