Thinking of a name for our child character

As a group we researched into childrens names for girls, we needed this for the news article which the young girl will be featured in. We decided that her name had to be a common name in the 1960's/ 1970's as this would seem more realistic than if we used a name that is popular  now but was unheard of in the period that we wanted our character to have been born in. We wanted the name to represent innocence such as 'The exorcism of Emily Rose' does. To find a name that fitted with our chosen period of time we Googled 'Popular baby names of the 1960's-70's' and looked through the website to help us fine some ideas. Here are some of the names we discussed:

Alice: We thought that Alice did portray innocence, however we believed that this could make the audience think of films such as Alice in Wonderland, and decided that the name seemed too modern.

Autumn: This is quite a unique name however we believed this name was too modern and wouldn't seem realistic with the fact that the girl was supposed to be from the 1970's.

Sophie: Again like the others this name seems rather modern, and we really wanted the name of our character to be authentic and seem 'old fashioned'.

Molly: We rather liked Molly as a group, however we realised that there is a large amount of young people with that name now, so therefore decided it would not have been the best choice.

Bonnie: We really liked this name as it seemed 'old fashioned' and very innocent, also there is a Nursery Rhyme called 'My Bonnie' which we thought people might relate to their childhood.

We decided to look for a surname for our character as well as we would obviously have to include that in our Newspaper article as well. After some discussion and some more Googling of 'Common surnames' we came up with Lawson as it is ranking 150 at the moment and we thought the overall name seemed very innocent.

Therefore we decided on the name Bonnie Lawson.