First names you don't see anymore

Egbert

 

After we named our daughter Violet we saw a stat that something like 85 percent of the people in the US with the name are either older than 70 or younger than 4.

 

Osama

 

My grandmother was named Bertha. Her siblings were Irving and Gladys. You don't see any of those names very often anymore. My cousin's grandmother (born around 1910) was named Rachel but changed it to Beatrice, because she thought Rachel sounded too Jewish (for the record, she was indeed Jewish).

 

Like my lovely wife!

 

Used to work with a woman whose parents lived next to a couple named Eunice and Virgil.

 

My great grandparents were Orel and Tillie and Varney and Pearl.

 

I had a grandfather named Max, whose name went out of fashion then had a strong comeback in the 90s. He was born in 1891, and in his area of the cemetery, it seems every other guy was named Max.

David was other grandpa and Dora and Rita were my grandmothers. Only the name David survives.

 

Enola Gay

 

75 percent of the girls I dated or liked growing up were named Jennifer. They would have been born between 1970 and 1972.

Nowadays you rarely see it. In 2013 it ranked 191st among U.S. baby girl names.

 

Blanche.

Mildred.

Hortense.

Quentin.

Ward.

 

I've written a few stories about Dorcas.