Girls' Names on the Verge of Extinction

These names are falling into a strange time warp.

by Sami Cone
Dec 29, 2018

We have the cutest grandma name for my mother-in-law: Nanita. (It's a combination of "Nana" and "Anita", her first name). But she may be one of the last with such a moniker because "Anita" is one of the almost three dozen girls' names on the verge of extinction.

A recent report shows that many once-popular names for new baby girls are about to go away. They don't quite fall into the 'vintage' category yet are still recent enough that they can evoke images of over-bearing great-aunts that pinched your cheeks at every family reunion.

In addition to Anita, the following girls' names are in limbo:

Beverly
Gail
Francine
Loretta
Lorraine
Blanche

While not every name from the Golden Girls or our favorite female country icons is going away (Rose is still doing quite well), they're not in great standing as a group.

To measure your favorite old-fashioned girl's name against the full Huffington Post list, read the full article here.

Sami Cone

Best-Selling Author & Speaker

Sami Cone is the best-selling author of "Raising Uncommon Kids", is known as the "Frugal Mom" on Nashville's top-rated talk show "Talk of the Town" and educates over a million listeners every day on her nationally syndicated "Family Money Minute". She is proud to call Nashville home with her husband, Rick, and their two ‘tweenage' children.