For the record, this is par for the course for most popular names. With a few outliers that have remained steadfastly popular throughout the ages, most names have rough hundred year cycles of...
For the record, this is par for the course for most popular names. With a few outliers that have remained steadfastly popular throughout the ages, most names have rough hundred year cycles of popularity. A name will come to be associated with old people as the population from the peak of its popularity ages (as is the case with Shirley), and often (but not necessarily always) they come back into fashion once most of those old people are dead.
Kinda random, but when I was little, my aunt's boyfriend called me Shirley (my name is Charlie), I think just to get me to say, "Don't call me Shirley!"
Kinda random, but when I was little, my aunt's boyfriend called me Shirley (my name is Charlie), I think just to get me to say, "Don't call me Shirley!"
Before I deleted facebook I was in a group for people with my same first and last name. I also once sold a domain of my name to someone else with my name. I would totally join a real life social...
Before I deleted facebook I was in a group for people with my same first and last name. I also once sold a domain of my name to someone else with my name. I would totally join a real life social group of my fellow {name redacted}s, but just the same first name feels too pedestrian for me to want to join it.
I did the same thing! This was back in 2006 or so. I have a common last name but my first is unusual. For all its problems, Facebook offered a never-before-possible way to find and connect with a...
Before I deleted facebook I was in a group for people with my same first and last name.
I did the same thing! This was back in 2006 or so. I have a common last name but my first is unusual. For all its problems, Facebook offered a never-before-possible way to find and connect with a bunch of us who shared the same full name from around the world. Not that we did anything meaningful with it but the novelty was cool.
Grandma's name is Shirley. She also hated(hates) that name. She's about 95 years old and still doing her thing. I'm going to send this to her and hope she gets some enjoyment out of it. I'd like...
Grandma's name is Shirley. She also hated(hates) that name. She's about 95 years old and still doing her thing. I'm going to send this to her and hope she gets some enjoyment out of it.
I'd like to think she'd join the club if she was in Australia.
For the record, this is par for the course for most popular names. With a few outliers that have remained steadfastly popular throughout the ages, most names have rough hundred year cycles of popularity. A name will come to be associated with old people as the population from the peak of its popularity ages (as is the case with Shirley), and often (but not necessarily always) they come back into fashion once most of those old people are dead.
The Muhammad club could form the 8th most populated country on earth!
lol yeah the major exceptions to this cycle are usually very popular religious names
I blame Leslie Nielsen.
Kinda random, but when I was little, my aunt's boyfriend called me Shirley (my name is Charlie), I think just to get me to say, "Don't call me Shirley!"
Jeff: Shirley(s), as much as it pains me to say it, you know what you have to do. Let Chang(s) join the group.
Before I deleted facebook I was in a group for people with my same first and last name. I also once sold a domain of my name to someone else with my name. I would totally join a real life social group of my fellow {name redacted}s, but just the same first name feels too pedestrian for me to want to join it.
I did the same thing! This was back in 2006 or so. I have a common last name but my first is unusual. For all its problems, Facebook offered a never-before-possible way to find and connect with a bunch of us who shared the same full name from around the world. Not that we did anything meaningful with it but the novelty was cool.
Grandma's name is Shirley. She also hated(hates) that name. She's about 95 years old and still doing her thing. I'm going to send this to her and hope she gets some enjoyment out of it.
I'd like to think she'd join the club if she was in Australia.
Why does this remind me of The Kids in the Hall? Thirty Helens agree: it’s a shame about all of the Shirleys dying out.