Chronologically incongruous names in books

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Anyone ever bemused by this?

I’m reading a crime novel, set in Edinburgh in 2018.

There are three 11-year-olds in it, called Alan, Jimmy and Rick. Are any kids of that age Calle debate these days?

I expect 11-year-old boys to be Jack, Lewis and Jayden.

Any other examples?

There were a couple of quite well known actresses called Hermione, I think that's where I first heard the name. Hermione Baddeley played the housemaid in Mary Poppins. She was the sister of Angela Baddeley, best known as Mrs Bridges. Hermione Gingold was the other.

Anyone remember Titty in Swallows and Amazons? She was unsurprisingly renamed Tatty in the (dire) recent film adaptation.
And a b**dy stupid idea that was,Titty being a diminutive of a regular name that generations of people had managed to read without have to go "ooh,she's called Titty - like titties,geddit,snigger snigger" every five minutes.
Really,if you can't cope with that don't go to the film,read the book, - or you could just grow up and get a grip.
And breathe.
Not that this has bothered me at all since the film was released....
Oh,and not you specifically,GallicosCats,just people in general

Whoops,holding failure there...

Or even bolding

And of course Hermione Norris (born 1967)

Dexter in that One Day thing.
I graduated on the same day that he and Emma did. Along with Donna/Karen/Darren/Andy/Steve/Richard etc.
There might have been some Dexters and Emmas there. In prams.

I'm abroad and as others have said, it's really odd to people here that names considered really ancient here get used in Anglo-Saxon countries. The equivalent of Italians swooning over Mavis and Enoch i suppose.

I'm abroad and as others have said, it's really odd to people here that names considered really ancient here get used in Anglo-Saxon countries. The equivalent of Italians swooning over Mavis and Enoch i suppose.

But it's natural that people from another culture and language don't have any of the associations that native speakers/those from a culture do with certain names, like datedness or 'ugly' sounds.

I've seen people on the Mn baby names forum swooning over Nuala, which is the Irish equivalent of Mavis or Gladys (in that it's an old lady name which is showing no signs of a revival) -- but I can also quite see that to people who don't have a set of cultural associations with it (or a Great-Auntie Nuala) it could just seem like a pleasant set of sounds.

Just yesterday I was watching an episode of naked attraction it was on demand so maybe a few years old but not that old and there was a 28 yr old called Tracey/Tracy?which seemed unusual for someone so young!

Unusual to see a young Tracy now, but there were 10 baby Tracy’s born in 2017.

names.darkgreener.com/#tracy

I met a toddler called Craig at soft play last week. He’s a good 30 years younger than any other Craig I’ve met. Another chronologically incongruous name on a real person.

That does surprise me Hope maybe named after their mother or Grandmother

Maybe baby Craig is named after Grandad Craig born in the 60,s or possibly 70,s ?

I know Traceys who heading for 60 years old so there must be some grandmas and favourite aunts of that name by now.

Definitely Fay !

There was a 'Hilary' and a 'Belinda' at DS preschool a couple of years ago. Older DS (aged 10) has a Nikki - short for 'Nicola' in his class. Nicola was incerdibly popular when I was at school (I'm 41) and I have about a million Nicola/Nicky friends but not anymore for girls in my area. Also a friend had a 3 year old called 'Jennifer' - again a name associated with women my age and older.

Noonemournsthewicked I've read a Linwood Barclay book where all the women were called names like Sheila and had young children. The names to me were more my mum's generation and I'm 43.

My aunt was a Daphne. She was born in 1937, and not middle/upper class.

There was a BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma which ran to six parts and was broadcast over the summer of 1972. Given a pretty significant chunk of the population would have seen it when we only had three channels, could that be linked to the early '70s rise of Emma?