WW name trends (was No more alphabet, please)

[oboakk]

No: HPFGUIDX 37740

AmyZ:
<<On the other hand, in the WW we see several generations and the 
change seems quite recent:  we have odd names all the way from Albus, 
born c. 1842, to Sirius, born c. 1960, but then this latest 
generation is much more Mugglish.  We do see a bit of a crossover, as 
if in Sirius's generation people were starting to shift, so that we 
get Remus and Sirius and Severus but also James and Peter (Lily 
doesn't count, since of course her parents have her a Muggle name).  
Is there a sociopolitical reason behind the trend toward Harrys, 
Ronalds and Seamuses?  An unconscious desire to blend in, perhaps 
even a pro-Muggle statement in protest against the pureblood movement 
afoot in their birth year of 1980?>>


There is some evidence that if there was a shifting of name trends in 
the WW, it may have begun even before the Marauder generation.  Take 
Arthur and Molly Weasley, who have perfectly Mugglish names, but are 
older (but we can only speculate how much so) than James and Sirius.  
Sibyll also seems rather Mugglish to me, although her generation is 
almost harder to pin down than the Weasleys'.

I always assumed that the Weasley children's Muggle names were more 
of a nod to Arthur's love of all things Muggle than a reflection of 
the general attitude toward names in the WW.

Abby