These wouldn’t be mom names for me. Everyone my age seems to have moms named [name_f]Linda[/name_f], [name_f]Kathy[/name_f], [name_f]Debbie[/name_f], [name_f]Barbara[/name_f], [name_f]Mary[/name_f], [name_f]Sharon[/name_f], [name_f]Karen[/name_f], [name_f]Carol[/name_f], etc. Boomer names. And younger folks have moms named [name_f]Michelle[/name_f], [name_f]Amy[/name_f], [name_u]Lisa[/name_u], [name_f]Dawn[/name_f], etc.
I like many of your names and a number are on my list. I don’t have an elegant description for them, but most are, I guess, “off-trend, feminine ‘real names.’”
Meaning:
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They aren’t popular at the moment - except maybe [name_f]Naomi[/name_f], [name_f]Caroline[/name_f], [name_f]Cecilia[/name_f] and, to an extent, [name_f]Rosemary[/name_f], ([name_f]Rosemary[/name_f] is not popular in numbers, but it fits in the zeitgeist of old-fashioned botanicals. And I wouldn’t call [name_f]Naomi[/name_f] and [name_f]Cecilia[/name_f] trendy, just on a slight upkick. [name_f]Caroline[/name_f] is quite popular, but it’s also a classic.)
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All are distinctly feminine, though not frilly. Your frilliest are [name_f]Sabrina[/name_f] and [name_f]Katrina[/name_f], and even they are pretty pared-down.
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They are all names that people would recognize as real, solid, legitimate names, but they aren’t stereotypical names you’d use to describe one generation or another. All are well known and have ebbed and flowed with popularity, but most don’t have a huge date stamp.