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Can you name the top 100 baby girl names of the 1900s (US)?
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Baby Names: Girls (1900s) Quiz
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Esme
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Jan 13th, 2010 at 23:08 GMT
9 points
Great quiz! It's interesting to see how many of these names are becoming so popular again.
withouts
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Jan 14th, 2010 at 02:23 GMT
9 points
I think I did better on this than on the top names of the 2000s.
lucia
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Jan 14th, 2010 at 13:08 GMT
3 points
very interesting to see the progression of names
mellybmel
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Jan 17th, 2010 at 01:36 GMT
3 points
Good one!
MissBones
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Jan 18th, 2010 at 20:00 GMT
8 points
Fun quiz. Just thinking of Grandma, her friends, great aunts, etc. That alone provided me with a ton of names.
redsxfenway
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Jan 19th, 2010 at 23:14 GMT
4 points
Oh grandma Bertha, I bet you missed the times your name wasn't associated with a howitzer.
kittenkat
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Jan 20th, 2010 at 22:18 GMT
1 point
Maybe some more time?
sbelkoski
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Jan 21st, 2010 at 13:30 GMT
5 points
Wow, that was super hard! I was surprised to see so many nicknames. I think of names like Betty, Jessie, and Annie as nicknames rather than given names so I didn't think to try them. Great quiz!
kmpritts
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Feb 7th, 2010 at 11:39 GMT
1 point
Great quiz! Weird how my great-grandmother's full name was #48 and #49.
Kicking222
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Feb 7th, 2010 at 13:39 GMT
4 points
I'm amazed at what names were NOT in the top 100- Lisa, Rebecca, Rachel, Amy, Christine/Christina, Lauren, Carol... I'm pretty sure I came up with more names that I thought should be there (but weren't) than names that actually were. Great game, Leezanne.
Kicking222
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Feb 7th, 2010 at 14:03 GMT
6 points
Also, anybody else notice that a lot of these are also characters on "The Simpsons"? Maggie, Agnes, Edna, Elizabeth, Helen, Mary... I'm sure there are others. I guess much of Matt Groening's inspiration for names came from people of an older generation.
Beldasnoop
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Feb 9th, 2010 at 21:12 GMT
4 points
Funny to think that there it was once more likely for a girl to be named Mildred or Ethel than Sarah or Catherine.
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hegemon359
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 04:39 GMT
21 points
well, let's just say I'm thankful for not being a female born in 1900 to trendy parents
thegirlnextdoor
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 04:54 GMT
23 points
yesterday's effie is today's nevaeh
JakeA
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 05:27 GMT
21 points
So they really had Jennie instead of Jennifer and Susie instead of Susan?
CANDM
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 05:28 GMT
42 points
I got a few by naming all the golden girls and their actress counterparts.
ablackperson
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 05:39 GMT
14 points
@hegemon359: Hey now, my first and middle names are in the top 10 (Elizabeth Marie...may not be creative but at least it's not Ethel). I actually like a lot of these names better than the ones that are popular now, although Mildred is just objectively awful.
thegirlnextdoor
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 05:45 GMT
35 points
working in a nursing home really helped me out on this one
BamaRainbow
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 06:32 GMT
3 points
@CANDM: I got a few courtesy of the older Beverly Hillbillies actresses (and their characters) and the Wizard of Oz gave me two names. I was trying for the Waltons characters but blanked on everyone but the mom's name. The character would've been born right around 1900 but her name didn't make the list. After double-checking, the name of the actress who played the grandmother is here and her character's given name is also here.
I'm also happy that a certain screwy redhead's name (both the actress's full name and her character's common name) made the list, but I completely forgot about her partner in crime (the character's name made it, but the actress's name didn't).
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mapgar
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 07:11 GMT
-37 points
I find it very hard to believe that more girls were named 'Beulah' 'Ethel' and 'Bertha' than Ashley, Lauren, or Jennifer. Are we sure this isn't a list from the 1890s?
Moonvest
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 07:31 GMT
17 points
@mapgar: You're close, just add 10 years.
beatrixkiddo
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 08:57 GMT
19 points
much much harder than the boy-name quiz. so many of these have just drifted out of use now.
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chicago
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 11:41 GMT
-9 points
Now compare this to modern Asian girl names....
Kinitawowi
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 12:43 GMT
4 points
I always struggle with these due to the number of variant spellings; there's three different ways to spell Catherine here, and at least four forms of Elizabeth...
Serenity
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 13:39 GMT
10 points
I never realized how trendy Disney was when he named the mouse and the duck.
OutdatedReference:
Feb 13th, 2010 at 14:06 GMT
14 points
It seems odd how timeless a lot of the boy's names have stayed, but an easy 70% of these would sound really old-fashioned on a girl now.
Skydog
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 14:32 GMT
8 points
Gertrude is today's Quanisha
Mello
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 14:38 GMT
8 points
What kind of name is Effie?! Is that supposed to be a diminuitive of something like "Efferelda"?
schulace
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 14:47 GMT
7 points
Can see there's a reason why these aren't popular anymore.
AtoneMENT
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 15:02 GMT
9 points
No Roccolina or Concetta? They got to start doing these things by neighborhood...
Brax
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 15:40 GMT
3 points
The only name on this list I have honestly never heard before is Beulah. Following this, Mamie. Well, I can't think of anyone with that name, either, but I heard it before. Effie was also quite popular in Germany. I think it's a variation on Evie, itself diminutive of Eva? Nice name to curse in (more than simple) alliteration.
icing
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 15:50 GMT
10 points
I really like these name quizzes, I think they tell so much about generations. Would be interesting to see a comparison between names popular in the UK versus those popular in the US for a certain period ... e.g. how many of us born in the 60s ended up with a name from a Beatles' song?
Fidelio
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 16:25 GMT
6 points
I'm surprised at all of the people commmenting on how old-fashioned and out of date these names sound. So many of these are trendy names now - Emma, Eva, Ella, Grace, Eva, Lillie/Lily, for example. Of course, most of those names still sound pretty old-fashioned, but apparently they're not out of date.
BiloxiSean
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 16:33 GMT
3 points
All you have to do is think of a bunch of grandma names, and this quiz is a cinch.
saxophone788
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 17:05 GMT
10 points
@Brax: How about Mamie Eisenhower, former first lady?
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yankeefan1910
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 17:07 GMT
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guyborab
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 18:13 GMT
3 points
I'm just wonderin': who are these people that got all or most of these right????
Commodore
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 18:27 GMT
13 points
Stella! STELLA!
The_Snakes
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 18:56 GMT
24 points
When did "Jane" become a popular name? I was surprised it wasn't in the top 100.
epigone
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Feb 13th, 2010 at 21:31 GMT
6 points
It seems it was trendy to have a name ending with the 'ie' sound.
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