(dc) bring back penelope
it appears that penelope dropped off the charts in the 80's. it has re-emerged and looks like it's headed for stardom again. that's good. i say, bring back penelope. if you've got java and high speed internet, check out this name wizard...it's ubercool.
posted by cherry blossom @ 4:49 PM
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that's way cooler than the (soon-to-be-defunct, if bush gets his evil way - don't get me started!) social security administration's static website. however, the SSA site does have some additional fascinating information. i like perusing the top 1000 names of the decade starting in 1900. it's weird to me that all my favorite old fashioned names are all the rage now. sophia, hannah, ava, abigail, isabel, olivia, emily, jacob, elijah. i always imagined naming my children some beautiful uncommon names, but now i worry that what i think of as uncommon will turn out to be the jennifer of the current generation. but, i'm with you - i love these names and it's good that people are using them. i guess eleanor has seen a steady decline, and the world needs more eleanors. this game is endlessly fascinating.
i like to see that i was born in the year that claire was at it's absolute lowest point in popularity. (lauren was pretty low in 74 too.) it is so weird to me that they are so popular now.
speaking of names- so, i was doing some genealogy and i am descended from a woman named alice snook. she lived in iowa from the 1890s to the 1960s. is snook your birth name? maybe she's somehow related?
Yes! Snook is my birthname. It comes from a town southeast of London called "Seven Oaks" (six oaks having since been blown down in a gale). Seven Oaks was shortened to S'n Oaks -> snoaks -> snooks -> snook. my snooks were also midwestern, so perhaps we're distant cousins, claire! wooohoo! my snooks seems to have concentrated themselves in nebraska, but iowa's kinda close. or maybe it's not...all those midwestern states sort of blend together in my head. we should have a snook party, wherein every invited guest is either a snook, with a snook, or can show that they're distantly related to a snook. that sounds, ermmm....fun.
woops..."my snooks seems to have..."
stupid uneditable comments.
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