I know. I just keep trying it. And it's not even a recent thing either. Catherine is a very common name, and I can't even say how many Katie's, Kaitlyn's, and Kate's I know.
Apparently it was difficult to know where to draw the line. Lily got me Lillian, but Laura didn't gave me Lori or Lauren. Margaret did not give me Megan, nor did Elizabeth give me Lisa, and I tried Ellen, Helen, Eleanor, and Isabella, but none gave me Ella. It reminds me of the old riddle, "Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess all went together to seek a bird's nest. They found a nest with five eggs in, each took one and left four in." How could that be? All were names or nicknames for the same girl.
In decades past there was no internet to check the meaning of names - most people named their children something which was either a family name, a biblical name, something from pop culture of the day, or a name they heard and thought it was pretty or interesting. My husband had an uncle named Drexel (born in the 1920s) because his mother read an ad in the newspaper for a company by that name and liked the sound of it. Her cousin liked the name when she heard it and also named her son the same thing.
This was a really hard quiz for me. I thought I was doing pretty well, I got 33. To find out the average is 44. I guess I don't have a bank of names in my gag memory. At least I got Florence, Joyce and Irene. But that's only cause I was cycling through names of hurricanes. I am curious to know how others did this quiz. Did you know the info already? Did you just rattle off the names of every girl you ever met? And how is Catherine/Katherine/Katie/Kate not on here at all? I guess multiple spellings split the vote.
Heh, funny enough all my female relatives were in the "popular" brackets in their generation, except my grandmothers because they have really weird obscure names. But all my aunts, great aunts and older female cousins? Yyyyyep, there they are. Got most of the 1990 ones (my own name's in there) thanks to having remembered being in school with basically all those names at the time.
My answer boxes only showed through 1970, and I didn't realize I should have scrolled down to get the decades back to the 1920s. I would have been trying names from my mother's and grandmother's generation had I known. Maybe add the decades covered in the instructions, or am I the only one who is this slow?
Man, I try so hard to get a good score, then realize I'm wasting time trying to get a hard quiz done that isn't even very educational. I'm finally just going to try a different quiz.
Fun but tough for me, I dont know anyone by any of these names, neither the ones I guessed and the ones I didnt get. (non uk/us) Otherwise it would have a lot more I guess not only friends but random people you have heard of, that are in your school or something
my last and best guess was dolores :D So happy that was a hit and I thought of it haha.
and indeed definately expected some form of Catherine, spend quite a lot of time there c/k short/long with and without h (cat, kat, kate, cathy, katherine katharina, catherine, catherina, etc)
Found it tough for someone relatively young. Kept going through moms names and grandmas names as well as teachers. I though for Sure Katie should be on there.
http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/43073/most-popular-five-letter-baby-girl-names-by-decade
I’m in my 50s. Does anybody know any Margaret’s under, say, 30?
my last and best guess was dolores :D So happy that was a hit and I thought of it haha.
and indeed definately expected some form of Catherine, spend quite a lot of time there c/k short/long with and without h (cat, kat, kate, cathy, katherine katharina, catherine, catherina, etc)
plus lori?? That is the only one in the list have never ever heard of once. I am guessing it comes from lorelai?