Ramona? It was the 257th most popular name in the 1940s, and 241st in the 1960s, but dropped out of the top 1000 in the 1990s. Maybe they are hoping for a celebrity comeback or something. It makes me think of the "Ramona" books (Beezus and Ramona? something like that).
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Beatrice and Romana
Mona was Mary's best friend in the sit com the Mary tyler Moore show...remember Mona from NYC?
Just for my own education, why is Ramona considered a classic, literary name? I keep reading that here. As far as I'm concerned it is just the femenine for Ramón, a very common spanish name. Ramón - Ramona. Curiously, not many anglosaxon boys are named Ramón, are they?
Hey Katherine, do you want to start it here or in Anything Goes?
I'd say Anything Goes, having just hijacked the Blackout thread over there to talk about my kids.
I think Ramona is a pretty name. My roommate is playing a woman named Ramona in our current musical. Is it really an old-fashioned name? It seems more modern to me, but I don't really know much about names.
At least they didn't name her Calvina
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Ramona? It was the 257th most popular name in the 1940s, and 241st in the 1960s, but dropped out of the top 1000 in the 1990s. Maybe they are hoping for a celebrity comeback or something. It makes me think of the "Ramona" books (Beezus and Ramona? something like that).I read these as a kid "Ramona The Pest" was my fave. :laugh:
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Natali, the Ramona books are hardly literature! LOL
I read these as a kid "Ramona The Pest" was my fave. :laugh:
I beg to differ, I think Ramona the Pest, and all the rest of the author's books certainly are fine literature, I'd be willing to bet that millions of kids loved all the books written by that literary genius who is Beverly Cleary.
In my own family, it was the Ramona books, and nothing else, that gave my sister the taste for reading. She had invisible learning problems (this was in the sixties) she *hated* and struggled mightily all through school. She couln't read well, she couldn't spell, and more. The best thing that happened to her in school was findiing the Ellen Tibbits book and Ramona The Pest on the school library shelves. She brought them home and she started to read for pleasure for the first time in her life. I will never forget the change they made in her life. She actually started to read books at the ripe old age of 12. She turned into a reader only because of Beverly Cleary.
To me those books were a godsend, not to be snickered at. If Tom Sawyer is Literature, then why not Ramona The Pest?
Jane