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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The majority of humans will always follow group-think, trends, and fashions.  That’s all the popular names are.  Sophia is not inherently prettier than Linda - Linda is just not in fashion. [/quote]

I agree w that. Linda is a pretty name but I have a natural aversion to it bc it just is such a 1950s name and seems like it belongs to my mom’s friends and my friends’ moms so it feels unnatural to think of a baby or young kid w the name. I feel the same way about Susan and Judy. I like the way they sound but they’re too boomer-y for me to ever choose them.

But like a lot of people nowadays who are into the old lady name trend, I do like a lot of names from my grandparents’ generation: Mary, Betty, Helen, Alice, Ruth, Frances [/quote]

Yes, there was some analysis that showed it takes three generations for names to sound fresh again and rebound in popularoty.  So right now Boomer names like Linda, Susan, Barbara, Judy still sound stale, but their mothers' names sound fresh (Helen, Alice, Mabel).

Twenty years from now little Alice and Mabel will be naming their daughters Susan and Barbara (and of course insisting that they have always loved the name bc it is their dear mother's best friend's cousin's name, and nothing to do with trends).

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