How popular is the baby name Skipper in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Find out using the graph below! Plus, check out all the blog posts that mention the name Skipper.
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Jungle Jim started as a comic strip in the mid-1930s. The titular character, Jim Bradley, was an American hunter living in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Another main character was his native sidekick, Kolu.
Jungle Jim stories were adapted for radio, film, and eventually a short-lived television series consisting of 26 episodes that aired from 1955 to 1956. The TV show introduced several new characters, including a boy named Skipper, a chimp named Tamba, and a new native sidekick named Kaseem. (Many sources called him a “Hindu manservant.”)
The show didn’t do much for the names Skipper or Tamba, but it did boost the name Kaseem up over the SSA’s 5-baby threshold for the first time:
1958: unlisted
1957: 11 baby boys named Kaseem [debut]
1956: unlisted
Incidentally, in the 1956 movie Zarak included a character named Kasim. And, surprisingly, Kaseem wasn’t the only turbaned man on TV influencing baby names in the ’50s — check out Korla.
Let’s forget for a minute that Ravenscroft is Dionysia’s married name.
Instead, let’s pretend she’s single. Let’s also pretend she’s the main character in a neo-medieval romance. (She’s certainly got the name for it!)
This being the case, what should be the name of her dashing hero?
I’ve picked out 20 contenders — Archdale Palmer, Bagworth Endicutt, Broughton Gedney, Emmorold Wheer, Fairbanck Mattock, Fearnot Shaw, Ffitz-John Winthrop, Grafton Feveryear, Grimstone Bowde, Kinsman Avis, Salmagrave Claxton, Seaborne Cotton, Scarborough Gridley, Skipper Maverick, Tregoweth Tilbort, Trueworthy Folsom, Vigilant Oliver, Wigglesworth Switser, Zibiah Cravath, and Zurishaddai Browne — all from the same early Boston records.
What’s your choice?
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For extra credit, leave a comment about what you think Dionysia’s romance should be about. Does it involve dragons? Pirates? Feudal lords? Garden hermits? A magical dulcimer? An astronomical clock?
Embroidered by Rooksby Creese, 1700sYesterday we looked at popular baby names in early Boston, so today let’s check out some rare names.
Those two books I discovered with the early Boston birth records also included lists of Boston baptisms, marriages and deaths. I scanned all of these lists to come up with the names below:
Desire ye Truth gave her daughter the exact same name in 1666. The “ye” here would have been pronounced “the,” as the letter y actually represents the letter thorn.
The Rooksby group represents several people, all female. You can see embroidered chair seats sewn one of them, Rooksby Creese (1703-1742), at the MFA in Boston.