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Yes people tended to select many safe traditional names back then but I've read that among the pioneers and people settling the Wild West that people tended to be more adventurous when naming than people on the other side of the Mississippi river. We do have a wider selection of commonly used names right now but back then people out West were more adventurous about naming than other people in the US. Some theories I've read is that they think since people had an adventurous enough spirit and were taking the risk to be out there in the first place that they were more likely to choose a less conventional name for their children.

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But you are also probably right that some of or most of the really odd names we hear about were probably nn's or aliases.

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I'm just saying that Sky as a name is something I can imagine getting used because it's not too out there and because nature names, word names, place names, and surnames were some of the more common names used by people who were breaking convention at the time when they named their children.

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This message was edited 4/20/2013, 1:49 PM