Illustration by Jennie Harbour
“See saw, Margery Daw,
Now she can dance like a fairy,
Daddy will give her a penny a day,
And buy her a yellow canary.”
Local Sightings:
GIRLS
Beatrice
Ella
Leah
Liberty (Olive)
Lillian (Millie)
Lisette (Norma)
Lucy
Lulu
Millie (Lillian)
Naomi (x2)
Norma (Lisette)
Olive (Liberty)
Sadie
Shiloh
Sophie
Rose
Tula*
Valencia
BOYS
Asa
Cash James
Duke
Gavino*
Goodwin
Hendrix
Jasper
Judah
Kasper
Lucian
Max (x2)
Maxwell
Oliver
Oscar
Otis
Rockwell
Samson*
Sawyer
Tadhg
Tuck
*Starred names are of individuals making a repeat appearance here
{ 6 comments… read them below or add one }
Olive is my new love. Amazingly, dh even likes it!
Samson is such a cute name and i always forget about it but its such an assuie name!! Samson and his donkey are covered from pre-primary to graduation in Australian school.
Sorry to resurrect a dead post but I can’t let this go- The Australian war hero was SIMPSON and his donkey. To get this wrong is just too shocking for words!!!!
I like most of these — favorites are Judah, Samson, Olive, Naomi, and Beatrice.
The one I’m most surprised to see is Norma. I hadn’t thought it was ready for a comeback, but I suppose its association with Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker) helps, as does its similarity to top-5 Emma and fashionable Nora.
Ooh, Otis, Kaspar & Lucian!
Tula & Valencia are lovely as well.
And I adore Margery (in the poem), but not Marjorie. Marjorie’s middle aged to me, Margery’s sweetly medieval.
Always nice to see the little lovelies around you, Elisabeth!
Funny, I copied and pasted Marjorie– without noticing the spelling. I think it should be Margery. To me, they are both pretty.