Where Are They Now? - 1911 #81-90

Morris Chestnut via Wikipedia

Another Where Are They Now post... I'm so glad you've stuck with me this far! After 8 previous posts, we are now on the homestretch. One more to go and then the final analysis. Here are the 80s!

1911 #81-90

81 Victor - #142 and falling (up and down between #63 and #142; it is currently falling lower than it ever has)
82 Marvin - #468 and falling (after rising to #44)
83 Edgar - #243 and falling (after falling to #309 and then rising to #142)
84 Stephen - #229 and falling (after falling to #138 and then rising to #19)
85 Morris - fell off the Top 1000 after 1994 (after rising to #82)
86 Ben - #686 and steady
87 Claude - fell off the Top 1000 after 1993
88 Gerald - #627 and steady (after rising to #19)
89 Alvin - #553 and steady (after rising to #66)
90 Johnnie - fell off the Top 1000 after 2001

81 Opal - fell off the Top 1000 after 1960
82 Sylvia - #554 and steady (after rising to #67, falling to #132, and then rising to #50)
83 Violet - #101 and rising (after rising to #74 and then falling out of the Top 1000 for about 25 years)
84 Ellen - #699 and steady (after falling to #104 and then rising to #59)
85 Jennie - fell off the Top 1000 after 1997 (after rising to #73)
86 Hattie - #993 (returning in 2011 after falling out of the Top 1000 for 41 years)
87 Marguerite - fell off the Top 1000 after 1972 (after rising to #78)
88 Fannie - fell off the Top 1000 after 1967
89 Mamie - fell off the Top 1000 after 1966
90 Velma - fell off the Top 1000 after 1973

Except for Violet, and possibly Hattie, this list of names is not too promising for comebacks. Violet reentered in 1998 at #904 and has been steadily rising, and we'll see if Hattie continues to climb when the 2012 numbers are released. Just because it piqued my interest, I checked the graphs on Nancy's Baby Names and found that Opal is very slowly increasing (92 girls were given the name in 2011, the highest number since the 1960s). I realize Hattie and Opal are not anywhere close to the Top 100 like they were in 1911 and therefore not applicable to the "100 year rule", but I still like finding out what names are on the return. And while a couple of the boy names had some ups and downs during the past 100 years, it doesn't look like any of them are currently turning around.

I am really digging Morris though.