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I know a Gretchen, a Martha, AND a Ruth. This article is all just speculation!

Where do you people live? If you went out in the real world before making up these stories you might find out how wrong you are!

NY #11? Cleary sewage wasnt factored in. City is a shithole.

My 7 year old daughter’s name is Ruth, we call her Ruthie and her best friend is named Gretchen. All I can say is I think this is very poorly researched.

Opal, Rose, & Myrtle can easily be little girls names today.

LOL….

All of the names mentioned seems like the author’s opinion…not based on any fact…
Go outside and talk to someone NOT online…I’m sure you’ll find a lot of these names.

Ruth is biblical.You’re always going to see some.
I can see names like Brunhilda, Hildegard or Ermgarde..and even Ethel…but some of the names will probably be there forever. Names go in and out. Like now kids are named for places..that will change too.
This article should have been “names you don’t like.”

My name is Marguerite(MAR-GER-EAT), to write it simply . You never hear now, but I love it. I think it should be way more popular. French. Means pearl &/ or Daisy.

This is just terrible, who writes this crap and then who gives it the green light? WTF…

Did someone get paid to write this stupidity?

Ruth was one of the most strong and loyal Jewish women in the Torah, and she was the first convert to Judaism. Jewish women will always be named for her, regardless of what these silly editors think!

You know what sounds like agony? The collective groans most of us uttered upon reading your sophomoric, ageist, sexist, waste of space piece you call an “article.”

So self-absorbed you don’t have a clue about human behavior or about how the world works.

Next week you’ll be using these in an article about 15 names due for a comeback.

“As with most things, “old-fashioned” has now become the NEW fashion! Older names are back in style. Whoever wrote this article doesn’t know anyone with children below the age of 12.

The author(s) really need to get out more. This is the most inane list ever.

Many of those names are very popular in Europe and Anglo-phile Asia. You lead the story with Sasha? Ever been to Russia? Guess not.

Names that sound old to us now, will sound fresh and new to our kids. My mother positively hates the name Emma and thinks is the most god-awful old lady name. Now it’s popular, trendy and cute. My theory is that old lady names skip a generation or two.

Not really agony considering my name is Agatha and I’ve always been proud to have a name that isn’t a Jennifer or Sara or Lisa or something common. As a young woman with an old fashion name, I’ve always gotten a positive response from people when I’ve given my name about how unique it is.

Nothing old ever comes back into fashion, just ask any Madeline you run into.

These articles are the reason everyone should run ad-blocker software anyway. Make a list, spread it over many pages, and the author gets a few bucks for the site to recoup through ad views. It’s just crap begetting crap.

This is the dumbest, most soul-depleting batch of gibberish I’ve ever seen. It’s a 100% opinion piece, and sadly, the opinions are as tired as the cliches attached to some of the names. It is astounding and sad that this is what we can expect from a “professional” who is actually being paid to come up with something like this. The dumbest thing ever.

I know too many Gretchens for this to even be considered extinct and all of them are under 40.
horrible article.

I have no idea how you came up this endangered species list, Marissa — but I guarantee you that Martha, Ruth, Barbara and Rose will flourish forever. I agree that (for the time being) Ethel and Myrtle and maybe a few others sound old-fashioned — but it’s the nature of fashions to change.

You must not be in a German part of the country–Gretchen (a form of Margaret) is still very common. Rose also isn’t going away, that’s a good Irish Catholic girl’s name. And Blanche is spelled with an “e.”

What a stupid, shallow article–written by someone with one of the dumbest, momentarily trendy names ever.

Ya forgot Hortense.

Roxanne should be on this list shouldn’t it?

Marissa, I can’t believe your computer did not show you an ID-10-T error when you wrote this.

Having read the comments here I’d like to encourage a whole lot of folks to just exhale and relax a little. It’s a puff piece meant to be a little fun.

You forgot Eunice and Fanny.

My daughters have three of these names. This writer is full of beans.

This “article” is really insulting. To the author: spellchecker, spellchecker is your friend, just because you can’t read or write does not mean that everyone can’t. I realize that nobody cares about punctuation or grammer in today’s age of texting, lol, whatever; however, it appears that all of the people that write these “fun” columns are functionally illiterate. Go read a book, people, not this tripe.

I think all biblical names will endure. If this article was written 20 years ago, “Emma” would undoubtedly been on the list.

That’s Daisy, not Myrtle, you idiots

I think you went too far when you said the names would “never be seen again.”
Anyone with any real age on them know everything comes back sooner or later, and it seems we are making a turn around even as you wrote this fictional piece..

Stupid article by a stupid young woman who exhibits the worst about modern “journalism” including the failure to credit properly the owners of the images used, the failure to verify that the person in the photo is the actual person to whom she refers, and the lack of journalistic integrity by failing to include the source of this “scientific” study. Miss Marissa should be ashamed of herself.

I agree on many of these names but my fiance’s sister is also named Ruth (or Ruthie). Also, Gretchen is making a big comeback!

Gretchen was VERY popular back in the 1980s.

My daughter’s name is Martha Rose. We call her Rose. I think names like Apple will go extinct before these classics.

“names of old white ladies” as a tag? What a stupid and racist writer!

names of old white ladies?

What a stupid and disrespectful piece. I can’t believe you have the job that you do.

Esther

I would take Ethel or even Martha over lakesha or Tameka or dashwaan or shawanna or even marissa ANYDAY the African names are ugly and should stay in Africa. this is America. I actually heard of someone naming their baby Creighton! poor guy// Leland is even worse!

My daughter’s name is Josephine! I think it’s very elegant. We do call her Josie, for short. But I don’t think it will EVER disappear.

Why didn’t “Marla” or “Marlo” make the cut? I haven’t heard those names in YEARS. My middle name is MARLO- Uggg.

Doris, Hortense, Sybil, Henrietta. Some names popular with my generation (I’m in my 50s) are fast fading: Donna, Carol, Sharon, JoAnne, Susan. They’re not dead but you don’t hear them much anymore.

I cringe when I hear these once popular names, but everything is cyclical. I wouldn’t count them out when I hear names like Sophia which reminds me of a soap opera character, Ashley which reminds me of every dad’s angel who turn’s into every frat guy’s Saturday night date, or Mackenzie that sets up a kid for a gender-identity crisis.

The cliche applies. Everything that is old is new again.

waiting for someone to mention my brother’s and father’s name when they get the male names, want to see if they even show the name Wirt.

Haha, my name is Phyllis and I’m under 30 sooo. ~Bucking the trend.

Names of people I know: Beatrice, Martha, Lily, Rosie, different versions of Mary (I was surprised that Mary wasn’t on the list), Marge/Margaret, Jane (Also surprised this wasn’t here), Barbara, Gretchen. and an Agatha. I was also surprised she or”we,” as she said at least once, didn’t pick on Frances, Janet, Marcia, Susan, Cindy, Jennie, Patricia, Louise, Nora, Wendy, Brenda, Veronica, or Linda. I know people with most of these as well, I would trade all the boys names given to girls (Aidan, Ryan, Reese, John–yes I know one–Sean, Jamie, Nicky, Ford, Michael, Sidney, Ryan, ) the made up names (Anything with “iqua” or gratuitous punctuation marks) or names with ridiculous spelling for the Marthas, Beas, Jennies, Barbaras, etc….. Life is too short to play name that pronoun or guess the pronunciation or workout that spelling.

Hmm I know a Barbara, a Gretchen, 2 Ruths (first and middle name for 2 different people). I can’t remember any of the other names either..oh yes Martha- knew one in college. Knew a Margie (now Maggie). So when are you going to do 20 male names we’ll never see again?