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Golden Girl Names
Dec 13, 2024 11:24 PM

  When The Golden Girls hit the small screen in 1985, the names of its leading ladies—Rose, Dorothy and Blanche—were late middle aged, and Mama Sophia was old enough to have already been in and out of  the Shady Pines Nursing Home.  That was 25 years ago, a period of major change in the name world.  Sophia is now the seventh most popular baby name (and #1 in some places), Rose is America‘s favorite middle name, and Dorothy is one of the belles of the nameberry name boards.

  Not only that: other Golden Girl names, names that were virtually written off just a couple of years ago, are back in play.  Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, for example, named one of their twin daughters Marion, Julia Roberts chose Hazel for hers and Molly Ringwald picked Adele.  And nameberryites are cool with similar period names like Clara and Cora, Vivian and Vera.

  Here are some other alternative names that might have been used for the Golden Girls ladies—are any of them ready to join Rose and Sophia?

  ALMA

  BETTY

  CEIL

  DELLA

  DORIS

  EDITH

  EDNA

  ELEANOR

  ESTHER

  ETHEL

  EVELYN

  FAY

  FLORENCE

  GLADYS

  HELEN

  IRENE

  JEAN

  JOY

  JOYCE

  LOIS

  LUCILLE

  MARIE

  MARJORIE

  MIRIAM

  MONA

  MURIEL

  MYRNA

  MYRA

  NAOMI

  NORMA

  PAULINE

  PEARL

  PHYLLIS

  ROSEMARY

  RUTH

  SALLY

  SELMA

  SIBYL

  SHIRLEY

  SYLVIA

  TERESA

  THELMA

  And what if they were scripting and casting an updated 2010 version of the Girls?  Here are some plausible names for the new 65-year-old characters—are any of them ready for their baby-name comebacks or, in the words of another old sitcom, are they too close for comfort?

  ANITA

  ARLENE

  BARBARA

  BEVERLY

  BONNIE

  BRENDA

  CAROL

  CHERYL

  DIANE

  DOLORES

  DONNA

  EILEEN

  ELAINE

  ELLEN

  GAIL

  HELENE

  JANET

  JANICE

  JOAN

  JOANNE

  JULIE

  KAREN

  KATHLEEN

  LINDA

  LORRAINE

  LYNN

  MARCIA/MARSHA

  MARILYN

  MARLENE

  NANCY

  PATRICIA

  PAULA

  ROBERTA

  SANDRA

  SHARON

  SHEILA

  SUSAN, SUZANNE

  YVONNE

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