All four of my grandparents were immigrants and their children were all (with one exception) born in New York City during the period 1900-1919.
These first-generation children were: Mildred, Harold, Miriam, Sidney, Fred, Dorothy, and Daisy. I wondered how many of those names were particularly popular at the time.
So I wandered over to the Social Security website section devoted to "popular baby names of the period by decade" and selected the decade of 1910.
Sure enough, Dorothy was one of the most popular baby names of the 1910s, as was Mildred. By the way, both names were also in the top ten baby names of the first decade of the twentieth century.
Not one of these given names from my family appears in the top 10 baby names of the past century.
Thanks for sharing the Social Security web site page. That was neat!
ReplyDeleteThis is a fun and interesting thing to do, Miriam. I can see that none of my mom or her sisters' names were in the two 10 for this period.
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting to note that none of your grandparents' sons' names were on the boys' list.
I'll have to do this one of these days.