I mean I want to name my first son Abe, but that’s because it was my grandfather’s americanized name (Ibrahim)
I think some geriatric sounding names are still respectable sounding enough to stand as good names for kids today. Dot and Conny I think would be good ones for girls and those are nicknames for Dorothy and Constance.
Looks like it. Names like Eleanor, Hazel, Lillian, Ellie and even Millie are in the top 100 baby names this year, and a couple of them are in the top 20 in the U.S.
I don’t have a crazy or funny outline for you, but when it comes to humor and Wikipedia, almost every single act of pettiness on this very long page is pretty damn funny.
Is it “Into” or “into”? A simple capitalized letter led to, as xkcd neatly summed up, “Forty thousand words of debate”, before suggesting the “compromise” solution of “* StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNeSs *”. Here’s what the horrifying talk page looked like when the xkcd comic was published. A summary of the results was necessary to keep things sane. And that’s over three months before the film’s opening. Starfleet representatives have neglected to comment.
When I was in school the kids with the weird names were either picked on or they were super cool and popular. Their parents had no idea which one they were going to be when they chose the name.
Your friend has the benefit of knowing who she is already. If she knows she’s going rock it, then go Mildred.
You’re usually fine if you’ve got a biblically significant name. Many of those have staying power. Adam, Joshua, David, Samuel, Michael, Rebecca, John, Mary, Paul, etc. not all of them work though, and it varies by culture. “Jesus” is really coming in Spanish but almost unheard of in English (American POV).
That is a bit of a selection bias. What you are effectively saying is “the biblical names that have survived to today have staying power”.
But even that isn’t true here as almost all of the names you cite are significantly different now than their original forms. Looking at your list we have Yeshua, Shemuel, Mikael, Rivka, Yohanan, Miriam, and Paulus. Adam is mostly the same, as is David (with a bit of an accent difference), but the rest didn’t exactly emerge as they were.
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