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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I like Dorothy -- it's strong and retro. If Alice is popular, why not Dorothy?

Dottie's cute enough as a NN but it's awfully lightweight for an adult.[/quote]
My daughter is Dorothy and her buddy is Eleanore. I had one lady at a park rave over the name, said she knew the most beautiful person named Dorothy. I asked if she was 80 and she said yes. Don't care, totally owning the old lady name. She don't even call her Dottie or another nickname. [/quote]

When I was in my 30s, Ella, Emily and Emma were considered an old lady names since only our grandmothers had them. Names go in and out of fashion. [/quote]

When were you born? Emily has been a top 100 name since the early 70s and has been in the top 300 since at least 1900. Emma hasn't historically been as popular, but also never been unpopular. Ella I will give you -- I think a lot of people associated this name with Ella Fitzgerald for a long time until it became popular again in the last 20 years or so.

But Emily has never been an "old lady name" because it's never been enough out of favor to sound anachronistic. It's like Elizabeth -- a persistent classic that never really goes out of style.[/quote]

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