Re: New first names

On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:53:17 GMT, "Ruth Wilson" <ruth.wilson7@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

As an expert on current naming patterns (i.e. a primary school teacher!)
I've noticed that it tends to be girls who have the more modern and
outlandish names, whereas boys tend to have more traditional names that we
might have heard of before (although my great-nephew has just bucked that
trend ... least said ...). There's quite a vogue for Irish-type names -
Kyle, Kieran, etc. (working class area, none of your middle class Oliver and
Victoria that make it into the Times and Telegraph lists!)

A friend who was an Anglican priest in a working-class area of Durban said
that you could see who were the popular film stars from a look at the baptism
register. In those days (1970s) there were numerous Clints. I checked the one
in the upper-middleclass suburb over the hill, and the most popular girls
names were Jacqueline and Michelle, and there didn't seem much pattern to the
boys.


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