I am really fascinated by what people choose to name their babies. I'll ask just about anyone. I even ask people what the middle names are for their babies, and I do mean everyone. One thing that fascinates me particularly is baby names form years past and how what we think sounds great changes. I'm thinking of my grandma who would have been 90 today. Her name was Carolyn. She had no middle name. Her maiden name was Rose, so she just used that once she was married. Her husband was Chester. They had a lot of siblings with a variety of names from Paul to Florence, Katherine to Louis. Obviously not all of these names rank very highly in many of the most popular baby name charts. But they were fairly common names for when they were born.
Here is a really fast quiz to see how well you know your top baby names from decades past. Here's the "cheat sheet" for the most popular names from 1900-2000. How well do you score?
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Old Fashioned Baby Names originally appeared on About.com Pregnancy & Childbirth on Monday, April 15th, 2013 at 06:59:38.
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