FASHIONS IN NAMES.
SOME RECENT EXAMPLES. The latest development in public feeling, in Britain, against the Defence of the Realm Act, is that the name Dora has gone definitely out of favour as a Christian name for girls. There have been some queer fluctuations in fashion where Christian names are concerned. President Kruger's name was Paul, and Paul was a definitely unpopular name at christenings during the South African War. In the same way during the Great War there was a severe slump in Williams. As a rule if a name is not in itself unpleasant it can survie a great deal in the way of unpleasant associations. For instance, at the time when the Thompson-Bywaters case was the sensation of the day in England there was little difference in the number of Ediths registered. People thought of grandma or of Aunt Edith when they named the baby girl, and not of Edith Thompson.
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Franklin Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 38, 3 April 1933, Page 2
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