Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Baby Name Tuesday: Week 7

Hello guys!
Today for this Baby Name Tuesday, we will be talking about the most popular baby names in the 1890s! For this week, here's a fun baby name to go with the most popular names from the 1890s. (You may remember this game from BNT: Week 4.) For those of you don't know how to play, simply find the girl name and the boy name that corresponds with your birth month (the first name) and your birth date (the middle name). Then you end up with 2 very old-timey names!


Girls' Names
month (first name):
January = Ruth
February = Bessie
March = Gertrude
April = Frances
May = Lillie
June = Iva
July = Nina
August = Eliza
September = Belle
October = Frieda
November = Madeline
December = Delia

date (middle name):
01 = Celia
02 = Genevieve
03 = Amelia
04 = Lela
05 = Emily
06 = Ellen
07 = Ruby
08 = Katherine
09 = Viola
10 = Maggie
11 = Nora
12 = Effie
13 = Anne
14 = Eleanor
15 = Lucille
16 = Dorothy
17 = Mae
18 = Stella
19 = Rosa
20 = Amanda
21 = Rebecca
22 = Violet
23 = Amy
24 = Verna
25 = Sophia
26 = Isabelle
27 = Josephine
28 = Ada
29 = Lucy
30 = Mamie
31 = Pearl


Boys' Names
month (first name):
January = Ernest
February = Roy
March = Charles
April = Clarence
May = Oscar
June = Jesse
July = Alfred
August = Russell
September = Clifford
October = Jacob
November = Edwin
December = Theodore


date (middle name):
01 = Calvin
02 = Dave
03 = Dan
04 = Nathan
05 = Wesley
06 = Mack
07 = Emmett
08 = Matthew
09 = Harrison
10 = Kenneth
11 = Anthony
12 = Michael
13 = Floyd
14 = Louis
15 = William
16 = Simon
17 = Jasper
18 = Owen
19 = Aaron
20 = Clinton
21 = Cornelius
22 = Ross
23 = Roscoe
24 = Harrison
25 = Wilbur
26 = Vernon
27 = Bennie
28 = Percy
29 = Willard
30 = August
31 = Nelson

I got Delia Lucille and Theodore William (my birthday is December 15). I kind of like both of them! What did you get? You can see the full list of most popular 1890s names here.

~Margaux

2 comments:

  1. Golly! Those names are just adorable! Especially girls!!!!

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  2. I got Belle Violet and Clifford Ross. I love all of these names! Except maybe Frieda...

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