I have a cabbage patch doll from childhood named Emma Charlotte

[conuly]

I named her that, not the company. I thought it was a pretty, old-fashioned name, something buoyed by the fact that Charlotte in Charlotte Sometimes is told by her 50-years-ago counterpart's younger sister that it's funny that she has such an old-fashioned name - and that book was written in the 1960s!

Take a look at how often the names "Emma" and "Charlotte" appear on each state's top three names for girls.

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Comments

[thewayne]

I had a ham radio friend in the '90s/2000's in Phoenix who's younger than I named Charlotte. Pretty sure I had an aunt named that, which would make her much older, I think that was on one of my dad's sister's branches.