Rare 1905 boy names range from the curious – were the 10 boys named Finis really their parents’ last children? – to the surprisingly modern, like the 8 boys called Brooks. In between the oddities and the names that we love today, some great choices await. Some names feel vaguely familiar, but many are all-but forgotten. A […]
READ MORE >>Rare 1905 Girl Names: Millicent and Marvel
Rare 1905 girl names range from the so very modern to the still slightly dusty. While a few of these are in the Top 1000 today, many are just as rare now as they were more than 100 years ago. As with the rare 1885 baby names list and rare 1895 baby names list, I’ve limited my search […]
READ MORE >>1900s Baby Names: Twenty Neglected Gems
1900s baby names sounds like I could be talking about the whole of the twentieth century, or at least the first half! Not so. If you’ve been following the series, you know that I’m going decade-by-decade to look for the neglected gems – the baby names that have not quite been revived, even while we’ve cheerfully rediscovered other names […]
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