Recycled Names

Everything old is new again. That saying has been around for ages. It can be used for clothes, decor and names. There was a saying that if you pile your clothes up on a chair and flip the pile 20 years later, you are in fashion again. Children's names are being resurrected. The names of our grandparents and great grandparents are now the names of our grandchildren. There are no more babies being named Susan, Karen, Ellen, Diane or Barbara. They are now being named Sophie, Bella, Celia, Max, Leo and Eli. The old "new" names like Madison and Tyler have phased out. When my children were young there were about five names that everyone used and each class had children with those names. Like Shakespeare said, "A rose by any other name...".