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Re: American names

by Arcadia

7/4/2007, 10:36 AM

Hmm... maybe surnames on girls is uniquely American? After all, Taylor is a top 100 BOYS name is britain. But, also, it was a practice in the south long before the trend hit the rest of the country, was it not? Girls named Sullivan and... other surnames. Yeah, I really don't know much about it, aside from that it happened.

Would "hippie" names be uniquely American? I really don't know much about the 60s in Britain and Europe. Did any other county have Rainbows and Moonflower?

Thats all I have for now - but I will be back! Maybe. This is fun :-)

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- Aine (poetic_freedom) +1

7/4/2007, 6:38 PM

We have had hippies in Australia since the 60s

With plenty of Rainbows, Clouds and Daffodils and Oceans in that time. Nimbin in NSW is still a hippie town surviving from the 60s and a cousin of mine lives there at the moment because he works in a nearby town and according to him a little Madison or Emma would be unheard of there. The kids typically still have hippie-ish names

- Sabrina Fair (rainbowstars)

7/4/2007, 8:28 PM

:) nice.

- Caitlin (earthnut)

7/4/2007, 5:44 PM

southern names.

I have a Pinckney in my Southern family tree, but other than that, no surnames on girls. However, lots of odd names -nicknames like Algae and Dee and invented ones like Galynn and Erla and Rasmass.

This message was edited 7/4/2007, 5:47 PM

- Lillian (LillianAMS)

7/4/2007, 10:52 AM

Good point! I should have remembered that (category? aspect? trend?), bein the mother of a Scarlett! *LOL*

- LMS +1

7/4/2007, 10:41 AM

Oh...(m)

I didn't even consider "hippie" word names. That is a good suggestion as uniquely American.

- Lillian (LillianAMS)

7/4/2007, 10:50 AM

ITA

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