Tuesday, March 03, 2015

List Mania: Obsolete Names

Here are women's names you rarely hear anymore (except perhaps on Downton Abbey):

Mildred (my grandfather's sister's name)
Marian
Edith
Violet
Mabel
Cora
Phyllis
Connie (my late aunt's name)
Gertrude (as a child, I had a neighbor by this name)
Elaida (my grandmother had a friend by this name)
Ethel
Daisy (as a kid, I knew an old lady by this name)
Edna
Vera
Harriet
Gwendolen
Mavis
Kitty (as a kid, I had a sometime teacher by this name)
Lucy (a childhood friend had a babysitter by this name)

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