My name through the ages...

[betweensunandmoon]

Or "the 46th most popular girl's name in the U.S. in every year ending in 8, from the 1880s to the 2010s." :P

1888: Ada
1898: Josephine
1908: Eva
1918: Emma
1928: Beverly
1938: Carole
1948: Phyllis
1958: Joyce
1968: Jill
1978: Jill
1988: Allison
1998: Brooke
2008: Morgan
2018: Audrey

I like Josephine and Eva the best of those.

Comments

[igenlode]

I'm surprised "Beverley" was so popular in the 1920s, as I've never thought of it as a popular name at all (in fact the only one I've encountered was Beverley Aadland, and that was much later).

I've never seen 'Alison' spelt with two Ls, either, let alone thought of that as a stereotypical girl's name.

Ada, Emma and Eva are very 'period', though.

[betweensunandmoon]

I'm surprised "Beverley" was so popular in the 1920s, as I've never thought of it as a popular name at all (in fact the only one I've encountered was Beverley Aadland, and that was much later).

Me neither. It sounds dated, even for the 1920s. I wouldn't have thought of Joyce as a 1950s name, either.

Then again, I don't think I've ever met anyone with the same name as me...

Alison-with-one-L is at #113 for the same year, which is odd, since I was under the impression it was the more common spelling!

According to Behind The Name, my source for all this data, Emma and Eva are both making comebacks, with Emma being the second most popular girl's name in the country in 2019.