What Would Your Name Have Been?
Woman in the Middle | May 20, 2015Eldest Daughter found a fun little quiz/game on the Time Magazine website. You put in your name, birth year, and sex and it tells you what you would have been named, based on your name’s popularity the year you were born every decade since 1890. Hubby and I have names that were pretty common at the time we were born. Eldest and Youngest Daughters have names that were fairly uncommon when they were born (and they never let me forget it, believe you me. They way they go on you would think we named them Sunspot and Pigsnout)
The funniest part of this whole thing is seeing what name they think I would have now and what I would have had back in 1890 and 1900.
My name, Kimberly, was the 22nd most popular name in 1961. Here are the names I supposedly would have had, by decade:
Now – Zoey
2000s – Rebecca
1990s – Kelly
1980s – Maria
1970s – Cheryl
1960s – Christine
1950s – Jane
1940s – Peggy
1930s – Irene
1920s – Hazel
1910s – Clara
1900s – Lillie
1890s – Hattie
Anyway, this is a fun little thing to do with your own name and the names of people you know. We did the whole family, of course! You can do it yourself at the site below:
http://time.com/3856405/baby-name-popularity/
I kind of like Pigsnout. It sounds like something Frank Zappa would have used for one of his kids.
I like the fact that you know who Frank Zappa is and that he named his kids bizarre names!
When I was born my mum didn’t know what she was going to call me she knew she wanted Anne but not Anne on it’s own and she added a number of different names in front of it till she came up with Jo-Anne and have to say I like my name