Hi Y'all,
Beth Benoit wrote:
> I know the list Stephen found is ten years old, but I was still
> surprised to see relatively old-fashioned names like "Mary" and
> "Barbara" on the list. (My own, "Mary Elizabeth"comprises two of the
> top five, and I have a sister named Barbara. Guess my parents weren't
> very original.) But I can't remember the last time I had a "Mary,"
> except maybe Marybeth - usually condensed into one word. Where are
> the Jennifers and Kimberlies? I typically have three of the former
> and two of the latter in just about every class.
The data are not for those just named but include all the women/men
alive and surveyed at the time of the last census. Thus, it includes
the baby boomers, the cohorts which came before, and the cohort
immediately after which also had large numbers of women named Mary,
Barbara, Elizabeth, etc. It may be a while before the Tiffanys take
over the list!
> I'd kind of go for Ardelia, myself. And there were at least two
> Darrells on the Bob Newhart show about their inn in Vermont.
> (Remember, "This is my brother Darrell, and this is my other brother
> Darrell"?)
Weren't they a delightful pair! They made Jed, Granny, Ellie Mae, and
Jethro look sophisticated!
Alas, my grandmother's name was Trola and my grandfather's name was
Aquila and neither made the list. This probably explains something but
I'm not sure what it is ;-)
Linda
--
Linda M. Woolf, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Psychology
