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Help[Facts] Aaarrgghh - there's more ...
in reply to a message by Anneza
Mary is listed for boys from 1900 to 1969.
Shirley from 1900 to 1959 (OK, it's a surname), peaking in the 30s just like Shirley for girls
Anna just from 1900 to 1909, and not Ann at all
Not Wendy either
Not Sally
Barbara in the 30s, 40s and 50s
Sarah, weirdly, in the 80s
Elizabeth from 1900-09; again in the 30s; and yet again in the 80s
Deborah in the 50s, and the frillier Melissa in the 70s and 80s.
So they seem to often but not always follow the female popularities. And surely there must be too many of them for them all to be misprints?
And what was going on in the 80s? Elizabeth, Melissa and Sarah, oh my!
Anneza, wearing her baffled hat
Shirley from 1900 to 1959 (OK, it's a surname), peaking in the 30s just like Shirley for girls
Anna just from 1900 to 1909, and not Ann at all
Not Wendy either
Not Sally
Barbara in the 30s, 40s and 50s
Sarah, weirdly, in the 80s
Elizabeth from 1900-09; again in the 30s; and yet again in the 80s
Deborah in the 50s, and the frillier Melissa in the 70s and 80s.
So they seem to often but not always follow the female popularities. And surely there must be too many of them for them all to be misprints?
And what was going on in the 80s? Elizabeth, Melissa and Sarah, oh my!
Anneza, wearing her baffled hat
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