s/o Names you like but rarely hear

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The next wave of "old lady' names will be the 50s-60s girls names like Susan, Barbara, Linda, Lisa. It's already starting...I recently met a couple baby Susannas (Susan on its own being too plain for today's moms)

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Also Lina, it’s not a name a hear often nowadays

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Priscilla was on my short list. DH didn’t like.

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Oopsie named our youngest daughter Genevieve and we are not all French. Lol we call her Evie for short. I also like Esther, Hannah and Quinn.

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Anonymous wrote:PP Bridget’s mom here and what have I started?

My great grandmother left Ireland at 16 and came to the U.S. in 1905. She left her parents and youngest sibling behind and although she never saw any of them ever again, she faithfully wired money back to them for the balance of her working life.

And, she was a domestic, a maid. Why? Because that was the ONLY job available for a single, Irish-Catholic teenager with a fifth grade education. She married an older Irish immigrant who was employed as a chauffeur, also one of the few jobs available for Irish men of the era with limited education.

Yes, I heard the stories that Bridget was so common particularly among domestics that it became a shorthand or nickname of sorts, “have you hired a Bridget?” and in early movies, the maid character was called Bridget. Guarantee that no teenager or even young adult knows (or cares) about any of this.

But Catholics follow naming traditions and choose at least one saint’s name at baptism and or at confirmation. St. Brigid of Ireland (Kildare) is a special way to memorialize my GGMo.
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....set to the sad tune of a solitary fiddle, or lonely tin whistle

Haven’t we exhausted the sad oppressed Irish trope by now? Have there been what, four generations since the maid you named your daughter after a maid?

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Anonymous wrote:Also Lina, it’s not a name a hear often nowadays

My daughter’s best friend is Lina - they needed a name that would work for a child of two people from very different backgrounds

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Anonymous wrote:I really like many 80s girl names: Amanda, Jessica, Heather, Kimberly, Amy, Nicole. Imagine meeting a baby named Amanda!

Right!?? Or Scott, or Eric. Seems insane now.

Totally. Baby Scott! Or Jeremy, or Greg.

or Todd!

We considered Scott and Jay if we’d had a boy. Nothing insane about those names. They are normal and known names. Our favorite for a boy was Neil/Neal, though.

We had girls. The second is named Erica. Again, not insane.

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Anonymous wrote:Clover and Blythe

I had to look at the date and make sure I didn’t post this

Love these names!

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Anonymous wrote:There is one really foul Bridget hater here.

I'm Irish, and I love your tribute to your grandma, PP.

+1 It's so strange that they don't understand "When I hear a classic Irish girl's name I just think you're poor! Because Irish people are poor and they had to be maids!" isn't convincing Irish Americans to be ashamed that their ancestors might have been poor. It just makes that PP sound like a bigoted jagoff. Congrats on your great-great-whatever having a maid, I guess? Since that's apparently a source of pride for some people?

+1 just dcum class anxiety showing again. My great grandparents were born in ireland. I have the first distinctively irish name after generations of Marys and Michael's. I also have a super german name from my dad. Anyone with any sense knows it's 99% that I'm a white woman from a working class family before they ever meet me. I have no shame in that. I also gave my daughter a name that's been called trashy here.

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My grandmother’s name was Ruth which is not super popular compared to similar “old lady” names. I wonder if it will become more so with the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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Anonymous wrote:Clover and Blythe

I had to look at the date and make sure I didn’t post this

Love these names!

I'm surprised that Clover isn't more popular, botanical names generally seem big.

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Anonymous wrote:Clover and Blythe

I had to look at the date and make sure I didn’t post this

Love these names!

I'm surprised that Clover isn't more popular, botanical names generally seem big.

Clover gives off a cow vibe, maybe?

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I love Maria. Elegant and classic name.

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Irene
Maria
Janine
Melody
Rosa
Theresa
Judith / Judy
Erin
Marisol
Dolores (except I wouldn't use it because of the meaning)
Jessica
Claudia
Mary
Allison
Lauren

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Anonymous wrote:Clover and Blythe

I had to look at the date and make sure I didn’t post this

Love these names!

I'm surprised that Clover isn't more popular, botanical names generally seem big.

Clover gives off a cow vibe, maybe?

I think of the younger sister in the book What Katy Did