First names you don't see anymore

I think Verna was awfully common in areas with a lot of people of German decent.

Somebody said Dorcas was a New England thing and wondered about other regional names. It's not quite the same thing, but aren't there a ton of kids named Peyton, both boys and girls, in Tennessee? It also seems like there were an awful Bretts and born within 250 miles or so of Kansas City back in the 80s.

 

Wow. Looking it up, Jennifer had a 15-year run as the most popular girl's name, from 1970-1985.

I would've put good money on Megan being the most popular the year I was born. I knew a billion Megans growing up.

 

It seemed like half the girls in my classes were Megans, Heathers or Jennifers.

 

In my 6th grade class we had four Justins and five Jennifers. This is out of 35 kids.

 

My grandparents on my mom's side — both born in the late 1920s — were named Elmer and Avis.

My mom's given name was Betty, but she went by her middle name. She was born in 1949.

I don't have any kids, but all my cousins seem to have given their kids two syllable names ending in "N" — Braden, Logan, Dustin, Collin, Landon, etc., etc., etc.

 

My grandparents and great-grandmother's names were: Fred, Evelyn, Geraldine, Robert and Antoinette.

Other than Robert, you don't see those names too often.

 

My best friend named his firstborn daughter (who is now 6) Mabel. I think she was named after a grandmother.

My other friend and I were debating it when she was born. I said, "I've never heard of a stripper named Mabel." He responded, "I've never heard of a senator named Mabel, either."

 

I had a grandmother named Olga and a grandfather named Axel on the Scandinavian side of the family and a great aunt named Gertrude on the Irish side.

 

Jenna Maroney's mother was named Verna. Then her father spurned her for a curly-haired surfer named Roberta. I think it hurt her.

 

Oscar isn't too common anymore (and neither is Felix, for that matter).

Until recently, I would have added Audrey to the list of women's names. But not too long ago I met an Audrey who is in her early 20s, and one of my wife's clients has a 10-year-old daughter named Audrey.

 

In 8th grade (1966), one teacher freaked us all out by calling everyone by their last name. That was a first for us. It's because there were 4 guys and 1 girl named Chris.

 

What about the pro wrestler?