What's your 1890s name?

[geardaddy]

Theodorus Poindexter Lassiter.

[backtoblue]

1. Genevieve Antoinette Pennyweather

[smirkymonkey]

2. Is there a quiz or something?

I'm not sure how you are supposed to figure it out.

[backtoblue]

5. That's the fun!

[geardaddy]

13. Not a quiz.

Just making up names.

My ancestors had boring names like John B. Evans.

[Chipper Chat]

3. Gertrude.

Henrietta.
Kunigunda.
roscoe.
Mildred.
Olive.
Othmar.
cornelius
Topsy.
Xavier.

[Glorfindel]

4. Maurice Griffith Thurlow Stansbury

From four actual ancestors of mine from the 1890's. Note: Maurice was pronounced "Morris."

[crazycatlady]

6. My name was popular then

In the 1890s, it ranked 108 of girls' names.

In the 1980s (when I was born) it ranked 161

In 2016 it ranked 56.

Source-- baby name voyager (you can see a chart of a name's popularity over time).

[Orangepeel]

7. Sophronia Myrtle

[Aristus]

8. Abner Jefferson Totty.

No, really.

That's the name of one of my ancestors. And he was born in the 1890's.

[First Speaker]

9. Charles Foster Kane

[mucifer]

10. Mine would be written in Hebrew letters because it would be Yiddish back then and

my last name would probably be long ending in sky or ski. My first name would be Miriam. My family was in Europe in the 1890s.

[FSogol]

11. Harley (later changed to Hurley) Allen Springer

[CTyankee]

12. Jeanette Yvone

[kairos12]

14. Bogsden Livermore Thrashberry.

[Solly Mack]

15. Etta Georgine McIntosh

[DFW]

16. Ummm, well.......

Seeing as how someone founded one of the biggest universities in the USA with my family name in the first half of the 19th century, I guess mine wouldn't vary too much. Never mind that some/most/all (records are lost) of my ancestors in the country in those days were deadbeat Mississippi riverboat gamblers who fled to the northeast to escape their debts!

[geardaddy]

17. You're last name is University?

[DFW]

19. Right, that's it

Not as prevalent as I thought, I guess.......

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. Larson E. Whipsnade

An homage to the great W.C.

[VOX]

20. Zachariah Andrew DeHay.

My GGF was okay with it.

[rurallib]

21. I always thought "King" as in "King Gillette" - the shave guy, had a ring to it

so let's say King Throckmorton Windsor IV

[3catwoman3]

22. Some real ones from my real ancestors -

Hal Major Elliott

Lorena Maxine Elliott

George Washington Ball (a paternal GGF who was a soldier in the Union Army)

Anna Regina Reinking - my maternal GF was the 5th of her 8 children

[7wo7rees]

23. Anton Otto Byerly

Candlemaker and cardsharp.

Son of Junius and Portia. Brother of Lisbet, Elgar, Nicodemus, and Cadwallader.

[calimary]

24. Dayum!

[geardaddy]

26. Cadwallader, now there's a good Welsh name!

[ashling]

25. My grandmothers names were

Mattie Hortense Holmes

Nettie Agnes Clark