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HelpRe: Margaret - usable in the UK?
in reply to a message by Buneary
Yes, and I doubt it. There are just so many of them here. Margaret was top 5 in England & Wales until the 1950s, and didn't start sliding from the top 100 till the 1970s. So despite its medieval history, it has the same feel to most non-name-nerd people here as, say, Patricia or Sheila or Janet - old-lady, but not old enough to be cool yet, and that's a much bigger reason why you don't see it on babies than Thatcher.
If I did see a little Margaret I'd just assume she was named after a relative, and I expect most people would.
eta: I've never met anyone named after any prime minister! - don't think that's really done here.
If I did see a little Margaret I'd just assume she was named after a relative, and I expect most people would.
eta: I've never met anyone named after any prime minister! - don't think that's really done here.
This message was edited 10/21/2014, 1:54 AM
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Just a thought, Pie: how about John Winston Lennon? Born in 1940 ... surely the mn was Prime Ministerial? OK, it's been a long time!
Here in South Africa there was a lower-case liberal MP, Helen Suzman, who was a vocal and erudite thorn in the side of the nasty government of the day; I know of at least one journalist who named his daughter after her. Not a PM, but close.
Here in South Africa there was a lower-case liberal MP, Helen Suzman, who was a vocal and erudite thorn in the side of the nasty government of the day; I know of at least one journalist who named his daughter after her. Not a PM, but close.
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Yes, Lennon's middle name was definitely after Churchill, I have read that. Lennon was born and named during a war in which Britain was being attacked and the Prime Minister was an inspiring voice to the populace, encouraging them and making them believe that they could stand strong. I doubt he would have been named after a Prime Minister under different historical circumstances.
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Oops. :) I guess it's a bit more obvious with Winston. And I know of someone with the middle name Aneurin after Bevan, also an MP and not a PM. Struggling to imagine anyone unrelated being named for any modern PMs though, although obviously anything's possible. I guess my point was that Margarets would be much more likely to be named after grannies, great-aunts, etc - there being so many of those.
This message was edited 10/21/2014, 4:39 AM
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