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[Opinions] Re: Best and Worst Names listed in the "Ladies Home Journal" from 1945
Not the easiest lists to deal with! Here goes, anyway. I'll remove the ones I don't think fit that list. I'd have moved Francis from Most Disliked to Most Liked.Most Liked Boys' Names
Stephen, Richard, Jeffrey, Michael, Peter, David, Robert, John, James, Keith, Bruce, Kenneth, Alan, Paul, William, Douglas, Gregory
Most Disliked Boys' Names
Percival, Oscar, Algernon, Archibald, Horace, Homer, Ezekiel, Elmer, Isadore, Ezra, Aloysius, Ebenezer, Casper, Felix, Ethelbert, Hiram, Wilbur, Mortimer, Clarence, Adolph, Ulysses, Isaac, Cornelius
Most Liked Girls' Names
Karen, Linda, Suzanne, Barbara, Nancy, Janet, Pamela, Marianne, Katherine, Elizabeth
Most Disliked Girls' Names
Hepzibah, Mehitabel, Zenobia, Minerva, Mamie, Abigail, Lula, Gussie, Melvina, Eula, Fanny, Anastasia, Olive, Hortense, Purity, Pansy, Petunia, Beulah, Alvira, Esmeralda, Prudence

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