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Offline chrisflex

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Names that aren’t used anymore
« on: April 20, 2019, 10:23:31 AM »
Names like

Doris
Myrtle
Doreen
Percival
Mavis
Gertrude
Maureen

I am guessing they aren’t considered ‘hip’
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2019, 10:59:22 AM »
Prudence
Peggy
Gillian
Dorothy
Beatrice
Eileen
Patricia
Margaret
Richard
Christian
James


^^That's just in my immediate family!
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2019, 12:30:00 PM »
My mom has the strangest name, I have never come across another.

Aroon
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2019, 12:31:01 PM »
Quote from: chrisflex on April 20, 2019, 10:23:31 AM
Names like

Doris
Myrtle
Doreen
Percival
Mavis
Gertrude
Maureen

I am guessing they aren’t considered ‘hip’

Isn't Doris generally short for Dorothy or Dorothea?

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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2019, 01:16:24 PM »
An Indian classmate of mine had (has?) this name

Quote from: Juggy on April 20, 2019, 12:30:00 PM
My mom has the strangest name, I have never come across another.

Aroon
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2019, 01:56:29 PM »
It's just an odd spelling of Arun, a very common name.   (Transliteration of the 'u' sound (as in ****klap) was typically done as 'oo' until sometime later 1900s, until the transliteration became more standardised.)
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2019, 02:02:28 PM »
Some of those [OP] names were commonly used in SA until the last generation or so. Went out of fashion among British after 1950 or so.
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2019, 05:56:03 PM »
Quote from: Shonver on April 20, 2019, 01:16:24 PM
An Indian classmate of mine had (has?) this name

Very interesting Shonver, she is a white woman born in the Eastern Cape in the 1930's. Surname Downey

The name may be common in other cultures but I haven't come across it before.
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2019, 07:33:05 PM »
Names tend to follow celebrities. Maria was all but out and then Sharopova came and reignited the trend.
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2019, 10:06:14 PM »
Quote from: chrisflex on April 20, 2019, 10:23:31 AM
Names like

Doris
Myrtle
Doreen
Percival
Mavis
Gertrude
Maureen

I am guessing they aren’t considered ‘hip’

My gran was Gladys - much in the same vein
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2019, 10:11:09 AM »
Horace.  My father was Horace Eric, known as Eric.
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2019, 10:23:00 AM »
Lewis
Beryl
Hilda
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2019, 11:55:13 AM »
Muriel
Josephine
Mildred
Johanna
Shirley
Maud
Agatha
Agnes
Arthur
Magdalene
Bartholomew
Salome
Anastasia
Archibald
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2019, 07:37:15 PM »
Morag
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Re: Names that aren’t used anymore
« Reply #14 on: April 22, 2019, 07:53:50 AM »
^^ And with good reason.
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