How popular is the baby name Marjorie in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Marjorie.
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In his book The American Language, writer Henry Louis Mencken used the phrase “feminine blend” to describe a female name created by blending two other names together.
Here are the feminine blends he lists:
Adelloyd (Addie + Lloyd)
Adnelle (Addison + Nellie)
Adrielle (Adrienne + Belle)
Armina (Ardelia + Wilhelmina)
Bethene (Elizabeth + Christine)
Birdene (Birdie + Pauline)
Charline (Charles + Pauline)
Leilabeth (Leila + Elizabeth)
Lunette (Luna + Nettie)
Marjette (Marjorie + Henrietta)
Maybeth (May + Elizabeth)
Olabelle (Ola + Isabel)
Olouise (Olive + Louise)
Romiette (Romeo + Juliette)
Rosella (Rose + Bella)
If you had to use one of the above in real life, which one would you choose?
While looking at multiples from 1944 last month, I found sources claiming that both Mary & Marjorie Vaughan and Lois & Lucille Barnes were the “original” twins in the ads for Toni Home Permanents (tagline: “Which twin has the Toni?”).
Many sets of twins were involved in the Toni ad campaigns of the ’40s, though, so I’m not sure if any single set of twins can be called the “original” twins. For example, a November 1949 issue of LIFE included a full-page Toni ad with six sets of twins:
Eleanor and Jeanne Fulstone of Nevada
Betty and Barbara Land of Virginia
Barbara and Beverly Lounsbury of New Jersey
Joan and Jean McMillan of Texas (pictured)
Marjorie and Mary Vaughan of Indiana
Charlotte and Antoinette Winkelmann of New York
Let’s pretend you’re about to have twin girls, and you have to give them one of the name-pairs above. Which pair do you choose? Why?
Oodles of multiples — eight sets of twins, one set of triplets, six sets of quadruplets, and one set of quintuplets — were featured in an early 1944 issue of LIFE magazine. Most of these multiples had been born in the 1920s and 1930s.
Curious about the names? I knew you would be! Here they are, along with ages and other details.
Twins:
Marjorie and Mary Vaughan, 19.
Lois and Lucille Barnes, 21.
Betty and Lenore Wade, early 20s.
Robert “Bobby” and William “Billy” Mauch, 22.
They had starred in the 1937 movie The Prince and the Pauper.
Blaine and Wayne Rideout, 27.
They had been track stars at the University of North Texas in the late 1930s along with another set of twins, Elmer and Delmer Brown.
Charles and Horace Hildreth, 41.
Horace was elected Governor of Maine later the same year.
Ivan and Malvin Albright, 47.
Auguste and Jean Piccard, 60.
“Honors as the world’s most distinguished pair of twins must go to Jean and Auguste Piccard, stratosphere balloonists, who are so identical that not everyone realizes there are two of them.”
Triplets:
Diane Carol, Elizabeth Ann, and Karen Lynn Quist, 11 months.
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