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Help[Opinions] Re: What are your favorite and least favorite decades for girl names, and why?
in reply to a message by Rainya
I grew up loving the kinds of names from the 1880s and 1890s, and 2010s to now (because essentially they are the same names). Most of them are so frothy and delicate. Sebastian, Elijah, Oliver, Theodore, Clara, Amelia, Isabella, Lily... That stuff was my jam for years. Fanciful, sentimental and romantic. Lots of the trends that are cool right now don't bother me, because so many of them are imported Victorian stuff. Flowers, word-names, nickname-names, surname names, it's all fine. Even the boy names on girls thing doesn't faze me too much, because it just makes me think of all those lady writers who used male names.
I am getting more into names from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s now. I'm beginning to appreciate the clean, bold edge of these names after so many years of delicate Victorian fare.
My least favourite are probably from the 1950s to 1990s, because I've seen 'em all a thousand times. There's no magic to them for me. Although.... the 50s is starting to appeal to me a bit, because it amuses me to think of meeting toddlers called Deb and Barry.
I wonder if I preferred Victorian names because my family didn't really use them, so they felt different and special. My great grandparents were born around 1915, my grandparents in the late 30s, my parents in the late 50s. So I knew lots of people with names from those eras, and it got boring. Everything was so ordinary, so dang sensible. I wanted fantasy.
I am getting more into names from the 1920s, 30s, and 40s now. I'm beginning to appreciate the clean, bold edge of these names after so many years of delicate Victorian fare.
My least favourite are probably from the 1950s to 1990s, because I've seen 'em all a thousand times. There's no magic to them for me. Although.... the 50s is starting to appeal to me a bit, because it amuses me to think of meeting toddlers called Deb and Barry.
I wonder if I preferred Victorian names because my family didn't really use them, so they felt different and special. My great grandparents were born around 1915, my grandparents in the late 30s, my parents in the late 50s. So I knew lots of people with names from those eras, and it got boring. Everything was so ordinary, so dang sensible. I wanted fantasy.
