Thanks, Cal! I never knew the SSA had such helpful information. That website will come in most handy. My characters' names usually come from people I know or have known, their friends and families, and so on. But sometimes I get stuck for a good name.
Cal33:
If your modern day story has a teenage girl named Glenda or Carol or Ruth in it, you've just blown your cred as a writer.
I get your point, but there are always exceptions. I know a little girl, not a teenager, named Ruth, but they call her Ruth Ann. Double names are big in the South. Names, like fashions, tend to come back around too. A friend just named her baby Cora, which was my grandmother's name.