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These old-fashioned boy names are due to come back around in a big way. ... The top names for boys in the early 20th century included John, William, James, George, Robert and Richard.
This category is for masculine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language masculine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
This is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
Billy Boy: United States 1912 [19] Variant of the traditional English folk song "My Boy Billy", collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Bingo: Several other titles... [d] Great Britain 1780 [20] [21] Attributed the song to William Swords, an actor at the Haymarket Theatre of London. The identity of "Bingo" in the song is formally ambiguous.
Early 20th-century English novelist and poet Frances Brody: Frances McNeil: Francis Bennett: Edwin Keppel Bennett: Frank Dashmore: Fanny Murdaugh Downing: 19th-century American author, poet Franklin W. Dixon: Leslie McFarlane: 20th-century Canadian writer was the first of a variety of different authors to use this pen name for The Hardy Boys ...
A trend towards more diversity in given names began in the mid-19th century, and by 1900, only 22.9% of the newborn boys, and 16.2% of the newborn girls in the UK shared the top three given names for each gender. The trend continued during the 20th century, and by 1994, these figures had fallen to 11% and 8.6%, respectively.
Wyatt Earp – United States, western lawman in the late 19th century and the early 20th century. Mike Fink – United States, the toughest boatman on the Mississippi River and a rival of Davy Crockett. [26] Mahatma Gandhi – India, the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule, employing non-violent civil disobedience.
During the early 20th century, knickerbockers were also increasingly worn by women. The fashion was exported from the US to Britain around the 1860s and continued until the 1920s, when it was superseded by above-knee-length short trousers (shorts), probably due to the popularity of the scouting movement whose uniform included shorts.