Names

I just love how names come into fashion, and then just as quickly go out of fashion. I remember at primary school one year, having three Leslies in my class.  Two girls and a boy ! I bet the odds of three Leslies in a class of 5 year olds these days is not very high. It is really interesting to see that  names  that in my childhood would have been considered old fashioned, such as Olive, Iris, Arthur and Stanley (to name a few), are now the height of fashion ! I even named my cat Dorothy ! Mind you its hard to imagine the likes of Mildred or Egbert making it back unless William and Kate use it on their next baby. Each new year I like to read the list from Internal Affairs on the most popular names of the year. They also release a list of some of the ones they have rejected. This is much more fun. In this New Year’s list there were the usual rejections like R2D2 and Hitler, but my favourite was ‘ Evening Officer. Wouldn’t you just love to hear the story behind that one……..

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