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[BabyNameRater]

Searching through my great grandmothers old year books from 1941 and 1942, I cam upon A LOT of interesting names. They are:

Florabelle
Idella
Dortha
Verdetta
Luetta/Luella
Donizetti (I believe she was foreign though)
Opalmae
Roseva
Mavelyn
Louvena
Ferol
Jeroma
Arwanna
Alline
Beedie
Revenna
Vernelle
Maeadean
Short ones: Nada/Leta/Vune/Oma/Refa/Leota/Jama/Elza/Ula

Ursel
Baird
Orlie
Lem
Arlie
Derald
Jaul
Trula
LaVere
Byrl
Jearl
Evison
Peneil
Valjean
Perk
Ananias


AND the weirdest one I found (IMO): Lovezillia

What do you ladies think? Any you like, dislike or think are just plain weird?!

[EmilyA]

For some odd reason I have a liking to this name;

Mavelyn

For the boys I like the name;

Orlie

I have to agree with you that the weird one is Lovezillia.

[ButterflyLadybug]

Florabelle is kind of nice, so many nickname options there, but I would never use it. I also kind of like Byrl but I'm not sure why, and Lovezillia is definitely the weirdest one!

[BabyNameRater]

I could almost see someone one using Lovezillia as a Kre8tive name now a days but I never imagined that people would go with something so odd back in the 20's! Though the nickname Lovie would have been cute when she was a little girl.

[MommaMeg]

Jaul, Ferol, Arwanna, Veljean are all terrible!!! Lovezillia makes me think of a giant cupid/godzilla creature. I hope I don't offend anyone's grandparents!!!!

My grandma works on genealogy all the time, here are some strange names she has come up with just in our family tree:



Areba
Loelia
Launa
Millawe
Charlada
EsteLee
Polly Franklin

Andil
Coril

[BabyNameRater]

I've seen these in my family tree:

Exhilda
Dorcas
Golie
Eramantha
Aloysius