FASHIONS IN NAMES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 526, 5 June 1909, Page 11

FASHIONS IN NAMES.

The parents of to-day (says an English paper) are, as a ruky thoroughly well iah biied with'to. belief t&at'there is something in a'naine/'They do not libel their children, witih the. distressing ones that used to appeal to fathers and mothors of ,apast' generation. There a'ro very few little Jeremiahs in tie kutßery. now, it is estiemely* seldom tiat tho'iiamo Hopzibah is .heard. "- ■ But, oa the other , hand, the very'fear that keeps them from'choosing names that might be a detriment to their children in after life causes. parents to follow a ..fashion, so that oiie generation will be replete with Ethols, Hildas, and Muriels, Claudes, ; Cyrils, and Guys, while another will hark back to more 1 homely names, and let, loose upon the world numbers of little girls named Betty and little, boy's, named Ronald; , .Several of .the old names'"of Scripture are being used again now. 'v Ruth is a favourife choice, and so is Rachel, and there .are many merry little Peters and fat little, Pauls • in of to-day. '^Pfch^r,'parents are. searching in old English rp.arishi'rogjsters and up(jn moss-grown tombstones for quaint names, and-those' who, want" to give their little uncommon ones-are reviving the old-Puritan liking for Clemency, •Patience, Charity/'Tfnity; ana-Grace'.' 1 Sirier ■is a name that* is uncommon and old, and another one, also for a girl, is Amys. It;is strange that French names do not appeal to English parents, for some of . them are exceedingly beautiful. Such are Renee and Minette.' Whf: should Anile bo banished. from the nursery, where Peggy .is so welcome? Then' there is the American Aline,; one of the pret.tiest; of .names for girls,- and more suitable, to carry ' through life.'than .Rosemary and Lavendor. herb names at present as fashionable as the flower ones, such as Violet and Lily, wore a decade or two ago.