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I think a lot of the names that people in their 30s and older would consider "old-fashioned" are coming back now... Hannah, Emily, Sophie, Olivia, Emma, Amelia, etc... all names I wouldn't dream of giving a child because I'd think they'd put people in mind of their grandmothers or an Amish community.
Then again, I guess in 40 years, "Mad'Isyn" and "Bayleigh" are going to be "old lady" names...
You're absolutely right that attitudes towards names are generational. My mother, for instance (born in 1926) thought the name Hannah was awful and only belonged on an old woman. She had maiden great-aunts named Emma, Rose and Sophie. She never would have considered such old-fashioned names for her children.
But people my age (I'm 51) and younger don't have those associations, because we never met those people. To us the "old-fashioned, out-of-style" names are the names of the 1930s through 50s, like Carol, Linda, Debbie, and Sharon. The names you mentioned--Sophie, Olivia, Hannah, Emma, Emily--were hugely popular choices among people of my generation, with babies born in the 1990s and 2000s.
In fact, they were so popular that many of them are already on the way out! People in their 30s and younger are getting tired of them. Believe it or not, Madison and Bailey have also already hit their peak and are dropping fast. Amelia is the only one you mentioned that is still rising.
Robert A. Heinlein expressed a thought about feminine names in relation to physical appearance in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land, when he had his character Jubal Harshaw state: "A girl's name ending in 'a' – that always suggests a 'C' cup."
My name doesn't end in an "a", but I'm not saying whether Jubal Harshaw got it right or wrong.
I challenge you to disprove my allegations that you're not a C cup!
After I got over my teenage fixation with D and E cups, I came to appreciate the attraction of B cups. Unfortunately it was many years before that happened.
Regardless of my beauty, or otherwise, (bald, pear shaped), I*don't care for my own name, which was given for religious reasons, but also has what I consider some unsavory connotations on two different fronts.
I challenge you to disprove my allegations that you're not a C cup!
After I got over my teenage fixation with D and E cups, I came to appreciate the attraction of B cups. Unfortunately it was many years before that happened.
Regardless of my beauty, or otherwise, (bald, pear shaped), I*don't care for my own name, which was given for religious reasons, but also has what I consider some unsavory connotations on two different fronts.
LOL!
You can always change your name to something that you feel is more fitting. To quote Erica Jong: "To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary."
To "poet and revolutionary" I would also add "forum member," as many forum members deliberately choose screen names that they feel better describe themselves to others.
At the elementary school we had this young female kid name Monica, she was rather ugly, many of us used to bully her, I can clearly remember at that time I thought Monica was an ugly name , that sounds bad, one that defines a loser, and that every girl name Monica had to be ugly...
I only know one Alyssa, my granddaughter. She is a lovely young lady.
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