Top names of 1930 - BOYS
There were some interesting names in 1930. Wow.
There were lots of ranks, offices and titles (numbers are how many kids got that name in 1930):
| Admiral | 8 |
| Colonel | 13 |
| Commodore | 12 |
| Council | 8 |
| Doctor | 6 |
| Duke | 33 |
| General | 47 |
| Governor | 12 |
| Judge | 51 |
| Lawyer | 31 |
| Lieutenant | 5 |
| Major | 143 |
| Minor | 24 |
| Pastor | 5 |
| President | 5 |
| Prince | 63 |
| Proctor | 7 |
| Saint | 6 |
| Sargent | 5 |
| Squire | 5 |
There were some good adjectives:
| Bland | 6 |
| Craven | 7 |
| French | 13 |
| Handy | 11 |
| Moody | 15 |
| Real | 11 |
| Reedy | 8 |
| Smiley | 10 |
| Worthy | 7 |
and even better nouns (and a couple of verbs):
| Almond | 14 |
| Author | 51 |
| Choyce | 6 |
| Cluster | 8 |
| Custer | 7 |
| Dock | 86 |
| Ell | 5 |
| Ether | 5 |
| Excell | 8 |
| Fines | 5 |
| Fleet | 11 |
| France | 8 |
| Glade | 17 |
| Gleen | 14 |
| Harm | 9 |
| Less | 9 |
| Luster | 18 |
| Metro | 6 |
| Orange | 11 |
| Other | 7 |
| Ova | 13 |
| Oval | 8 |
| Quince | 5 |
| Ruble | 12 |
| Shafter | 8 |
| Square | 5 |
| Toy | 18 |
| Trellis | 6 |
| Veto | 5 |
| Wales | 5 |
| Wash | 18 |
1 comment:
Re Sergeant. I was in the army in the 60s and we had as our Co a Major Sergeant, and, unrelated, an NCO Corporal Sergeant, who was later promoted to Sergeant Sergeant.If I remember rightly Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, has a number of characters with double names.
As for Craven and Smiley, one of the best tv series ever made, The Edge of Darkness-made in the mid 80s-had as a main character an detective named Craven, played by the inimitable late Bob Peck. And one of the great writers in English, and the master of the spy novel, John le Carre, had as him central character in a series of novels a George Smiley.
In you next post talking about Willowdene and its variations I have just been in contact with an America woman about genetic genealogy whose given name is Willowdene. You also mentioned as a source Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates. I went to a country school in the 1950s and we had to wait about half an hour after school was ended to catch the school bus home. One year our teacher would read novels to us in the half hour, and she read Hans Brinker. I can remember the ice and skating-we don't have any of that where I live in Australia-so it was memorable. She also read a book set in Hungary, about a horse stud, but I have never been able to remember its name.
Cheers and all the best
Kevin Brewer
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