Out-dated female names

My Mother's name was Ruth. Her Mother, which is my Grandmother, told me she named her after a book in the Bible.
 
Rose is pretty and I like it for a second name.
I don't want to offend anyone but the name on the list that I'd like to see gone forever
is Gertrude, but Marlene is fine with me.
I don't know any young women named Sheila, Jean, Thelma or Velma.
I think Ruth will stay around especially for a second name.
 
I'm honored to have had an Aunt Tilly (Matilda), but that's not a name you see much anymore.

From that blog - I have a next-door neighbor named Margie (diminutive of Marge), and she's an attractive gal at 42.

I've known a Blanche (a neighbors wife when I was small) and a Phyllis (cousin), and Phyllis, Marge, Ruth, Eleanor, Gladys and one Opal from teaching classes.
 
I like em' all! After all the person sells the name, not the other way around! A rose by any other name....etc. :)

 
A lot of good country songs from the past Meanderer, and I haven't heard the names Lucille and Elvira since
the songs were popular. :)
 
Bonnie I got a laugh out of The Streak. :)
Way back when that song was being played on all radio stations we were at a country lounge one
evening and a streaker went through. It took everyone by surprise and he streaked through pretty darn
fast. It was a shock back then but now anything goes and there are naked bicycle parades in some cities.
I have no desire to attend one of those but they are allowed for the money they bring in to bars, restaurants
and hotels. Money rules even if the events are less than respectable. How times and the world has changed.
 
Blanche
Myrtle
Ethel
Barbara
Mildred
Agatha
Phyllis
Beatrice
Marge
Ruth
Gretchen
Gertrude
Martha
Opal
Rose
Eleanor
Marlene
Gladys
Josephine
Ilene


Out of that list , Ruth, Barbara, and Beatrice ( our own Princess Beatrice) is just one of many!!

The names Rose, Josephine, Ilene/eileen ( the latter 2 especially in Scotland and Ireland), are fairly common place but I agree we don't hear any youngsters by that name

Can't say I'm overkeen on some of the more modern names either though..
 
When my daughter was born we thought it would be different to give her the bibical spelling Deborah. Lo and behold, in her first grade class there were no less than nine Deborah's. Debbie Reynolds was very popular in those years.
 
After reading the list I realized That I must be really old.:( It had many names of my friends and family members. Even my name Barbara made the list. When I was growing up I had 6 Barbara's in my class. The Nun would call them all by their last names except for me because my first name is Barbara Ann.


Blanche
Myrtle
Ethel
Barbara
Mildred
Agatha
Phyllis
Beatrice
Marge
Ruth
Gretchen
Gertrude
Martha
Opal
Rose
Eleanor
Marlene
Gladys
Josephine
Ilene
 

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