Goodbye, Rowland, goodbye!
Click to viewNames go in and out of vogue as time goes on. A quick glance at the list of names from 1905 will tells you that quite clearly.
How often do you see a little Cecil, Edna or Fanny running around nowadays? Not much? Well in 1905, all three of these were among the top 100 names for girls or boys in the country.
The top 100 names of babies in England and Wales in 1905 was compiled by ancestry.co.uk and compared to every child's name in 2012.
There were a few which were classed as extinct, which means there were no babies in 2012 registered with these names:
Male - Cecil, Rowland & Willie
Female - Bertha, Blodwen, Fanny, Gertrude, Gladys, Margery, Marjorie & Muriel
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