On the naming of children

[Jilly_in_VA]

It does seem that a lot of babies these days are getting horrible names that aren't even names---Brynlee, Gunner, and so on. But there is a trend toward the old names, which I think is a good thing, so long as they aren't being misspelled in an attempt to appear "trendy". However, at my church, you would swear that to hear the moms call their little ones, you'd swear you had wandered into a grandparents' convention! The children are, for some reason, almost all girls, and the under-fives have among them Evelyn, Evangeline, Cassandra, William, Conan, Fern, and Emma. The outlier is Vukh, which is a Serbian name meaning "wolf". He may have a hard time when he goes to school. The newest baby, Fern's sister, is Eula(!). Maybe she's named for a grandmother. That one kind of blew me away....