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Looking on the masculine side and I'd like to see opinions on the following names that I cocked my head at;
Lafayette
Pink / Pinkney
Judson
Burl
Isom
Minor
Ransom
Doc / Dock / Doctor
Lemon
Shedrick
Wellington
Flem
Orange
Also I love how plain and normal Craig is at #959 underneath all of these names (and more unusual ones). Not that Craig is an appealing name at all (personally), I just find it funny that it's one of the most "normal" names possible yet it's below Flem??? Pink??? Ransom??????
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Lafayette
Pink / Pinkney
Judson
Burl
Isom
Minor
Ransom
Doc / Dock / Doctor
Lemon
Shedrick
Wellington
Flem
Orange
Also I love how plain and normal Craig is at #959 underneath all of these names (and more unusual ones). Not that Craig is an appealing name at all (personally), I just find it funny that it's one of the most "normal" names possible yet it's below Flem??? Pink??? Ransom??????
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So colorful and fruity, lol.
Burl would have fit right in with Pearl, Beryl, and Bert names.
I expect Pink / Pinkney probably had a surname vibe back then. Now I think it'd seem kind of punk.
I like Lemon. I feel like there must be a modern one or two that I've heard of. It's a bit like Cherry or Clement or Lennon but yellow.
I'm guessing Shedrick was more based on Shadrach than Cedric. I can't judge, because I do like Meshach and Cedric, but I'd prefer those.
Lafayette sounds like a military/leader/place name (from both American revolutionary and civil wars). Not really surprising to me, especially for the time period. I think the sound is pleasant and familiar, but it sounds old-south to me, which feels a little awkward.
Wellington seems similar to Lafayette but funnier considering Napoleon was also semi-popular around this time.
Doc sounds backwoodsy to me now, but titles-as-names still happen. Doc Watson is a famous banjo player.
Orange is interesting. For all I know, it could be a nature name, but I'd guess it relates to someone famous (William of Orange is the only person I can think of though) or a place.
Flem is one I don't understand at all. Like phlegm, or Flemish? Or, Fleming? I feel like Fleming would have been better, if it's from that.
Minor is also weird. It seems like Junior, but why not use Junior...
Judson's mostly boring to me, and/or similar to modern Hudson. Jud is like a cliche tough but pitiful farm guy name to me because of the movie Oklahoma, which has a song mocking "poor Jud..." (it was probably cliche in the mid 1900s, when that was made, too).
Burl would have fit right in with Pearl, Beryl, and Bert names.
I expect Pink / Pinkney probably had a surname vibe back then. Now I think it'd seem kind of punk.
I like Lemon. I feel like there must be a modern one or two that I've heard of. It's a bit like Cherry or Clement or Lennon but yellow.
I'm guessing Shedrick was more based on Shadrach than Cedric. I can't judge, because I do like Meshach and Cedric, but I'd prefer those.
Lafayette sounds like a military/leader/place name (from both American revolutionary and civil wars). Not really surprising to me, especially for the time period. I think the sound is pleasant and familiar, but it sounds old-south to me, which feels a little awkward.
Wellington seems similar to Lafayette but funnier considering Napoleon was also semi-popular around this time.
Doc sounds backwoodsy to me now, but titles-as-names still happen. Doc Watson is a famous banjo player.
Orange is interesting. For all I know, it could be a nature name, but I'd guess it relates to someone famous (William of Orange is the only person I can think of though) or a place.
Flem is one I don't understand at all. Like phlegm, or Flemish? Or, Fleming? I feel like Fleming would have been better, if it's from that.
Minor is also weird. It seems like Junior, but why not use Junior...
Judson's mostly boring to me, and/or similar to modern Hudson. Jud is like a cliche tough but pitiful farm guy name to me because of the movie Oklahoma, which has a song mocking "poor Jud..." (it was probably cliche in the mid 1900s, when that was made, too).
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Ransom had some popularity in the 18th century due to some well-know figures with the name. Most recently it was the name of Chris Evan's character in Knives Out, which I thought was a great and funny nod not just to his character but to the unusual "old money" names used out east and the fact the family likes to pretend they're old money lol
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Lafayette - It looks weird
Pink / Pinkney - FFS!!!!! Why?
Judson - STOP IT!
Burl - YES!
Isom - NO!
Minor - it makes me think of music!
Ransom - Ugh.
Doc / Dock / Doctor - Imagine if Doctor was a doctor, they would be called Doctor Doctor.
Lemon - it’s fine.
Shedrick - Why not Cedric? ;(
Wellington - it’s the capital of New Zealand. I don’t like it, and it makes me think of boots.
Flem - weird.
Orange - This will be a perfect name for the dumb blond 45th president of the US.
Pink / Pinkney - FFS!!!!! Why?
Judson - STOP IT!
Burl - YES!
Isom - NO!
Minor - it makes me think of music!
Ransom - Ugh.
Doc / Dock / Doctor - Imagine if Doctor was a doctor, they would be called Doctor Doctor.
Lemon - it’s fine.
Shedrick - Why not Cedric? ;(
Wellington - it’s the capital of New Zealand. I don’t like it, and it makes me think of boots.
Flem - weird.
Orange - This will be a perfect name for the dumb blond 45th president of the US.
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These are very interesting!
Lafayette - parents were military historians?
Pink / Pinkney - I read in a history of fashion that at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th centuries pink was typically used for boy babies and toddlers on the grounds that it was warm and energetic; girls got calm, passive pale blue! I've encountered several Black women in South AFrica named Pink or Pinky, but never a man or boy.
Judson - he'd fit right in with all the other -son names today
Burl - Ives? Funny old folk singer? Must have got his name from somewhere!
Isom - incomprehensible
Minor - poor kid. Even Junior would be better.
Ransom - I hope it's a lnfn. CS Lewis uses it as the ln of the central human character in his Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet etc): at one point (in Voyage to Venus I think) God makes a pun on Ransom (son of Ranulf) and ransom (payment leading to a captive being freed ... theologically), which convinces Ransom that he isn't imagining things - as a philologist, he knew his own etymology and would never mess with it!
Doc / Dock / Doctor - one of our top footballers in the 1990s I think was Doctor Khumalo. And it was said then that the seventh son in a LDS family was typically named Doctor, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, it's obviously aspirational!
Lemon - I hope this is a lnfn too! Anything rather than the fruit!
Shedrick - Shadrack, Shedrick, what's the difference? Could be a spelling error by the registrar or the parents.
Wellington - more military historians? Or did they enjoy walking in the rain?
Flem - OH DEAR
Orange - a red-head, perhaps? Or a tribute to Orange County, if it already existed ...
Lafayette - parents were military historians?
Pink / Pinkney - I read in a history of fashion that at the end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th centuries pink was typically used for boy babies and toddlers on the grounds that it was warm and energetic; girls got calm, passive pale blue! I've encountered several Black women in South AFrica named Pink or Pinky, but never a man or boy.
Judson - he'd fit right in with all the other -son names today
Burl - Ives? Funny old folk singer? Must have got his name from somewhere!
Isom - incomprehensible
Minor - poor kid. Even Junior would be better.
Ransom - I hope it's a lnfn. CS Lewis uses it as the ln of the central human character in his Space Trilogy (Out of the Silent Planet etc): at one point (in Voyage to Venus I think) God makes a pun on Ransom (son of Ranulf) and ransom (payment leading to a captive being freed ... theologically), which convinces Ransom that he isn't imagining things - as a philologist, he knew his own etymology and would never mess with it!
Doc / Dock / Doctor - one of our top footballers in the 1990s I think was Doctor Khumalo. And it was said then that the seventh son in a LDS family was typically named Doctor, but I wouldn't know. Anyway, it's obviously aspirational!
Lemon - I hope this is a lnfn too! Anything rather than the fruit!
Shedrick - Shadrack, Shedrick, what's the difference? Could be a spelling error by the registrar or the parents.
Wellington - more military historians? Or did they enjoy walking in the rain?
Flem - OH DEAR
Orange - a red-head, perhaps? Or a tribute to Orange County, if it already existed ...
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