Name games (12/365)
Jan. 12th, 2021 07:07 pmVia ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
oracne, find out what your name would be if you were born today (or, indeed, in various decades in the past).
Apparently if I had been born today my name would be Cynthia, which seems highly unlikely. Surely no-one has named a child Cynthia since at least 1965? And my 1960s name would be Kathie, which is much more common than my actual name has even been. Then again, it says that if I'd been born in the 1970s (which I was) I'd have been Lynnette (which I'm not). Also, several of my options just seem to be variant spellings - Carrol (1940s), Hellen (1930s) and Adella (1910s).
According to this one, my name was just 40 years ahead of its time (or 74 years behind it), as it was most popular in 1900 and peaked again in 2014 (which pretty much exactly correlates with the date of birth of the child of someone in my team who has the same name as me, which is obviously deeply confusing on Teams calls when the schools are closed).
oracne, find out what your name would be if you were born today (or, indeed, in various decades in the past).Apparently if I had been born today my name would be Cynthia, which seems highly unlikely. Surely no-one has named a child Cynthia since at least 1965? And my 1960s name would be Kathie, which is much more common than my actual name has even been. Then again, it says that if I'd been born in the 1970s (which I was) I'd have been Lynnette (which I'm not). Also, several of my options just seem to be variant spellings - Carrol (1940s), Hellen (1930s) and Adella (1910s).
According to this one, my name was just 40 years ahead of its time (or 74 years behind it), as it was most popular in 1900 and peaked again in 2014 (which pretty much exactly correlates with the date of birth of the child of someone in my team who has the same name as me, which is obviously deeply confusing on Teams calls when the schools are closed).
