Originally Posted by OHSue
Originally Posted by Jennifer22206
Try being a Jennifer born in the 80's. :) I've always liked my mom's name though - Charmaine.
And I do have an Aunt Gail
I am a nurse and used to work with newborns in the 80's, you are sooo right. April was big then, too. I remember we had 4 April's in the nursery at once, three April Dawn and one April Rose. I asked each mom how she came up with the name and she said she liked it cause it was unusual.
Have never met a kid with my son's name, Sawyer, but once heard someone yelling at their kid named Sawyer at an amusement park.
In 13 years of pediatric nursing I never took care of a kid with my name... Susan (or Sue or Suzy, etc)
As a teacher I saw many trends of names come and go, but the most memorable year was the one when we had so many Gingers and Pamelas. The names began changing from the regular sweet names and then all of a sudden we had names like Woodrow Wilson B., Jacqueline Bouviar D., Cassius Clay B., Crystal Gail. And of course, we had a Kawasaki. Then there were Precious, Passion, Pleasure, and I don't remember the others, but there were six sisters.
Then the names changed to names with apostrophies, etc. Reading the morning roll in the morning was like speaking a foreign language. One day, a co-worker said to me, "What has happened to sweet names like Jack, Sue, Mary, Jim, etc.?"
Today I've noticed that the tides are changing. I've noticed names like Grace, Emma, Annie, Robert,etc.are making a come-back. So I'm happy that I'm a Gail Marie.