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Ok... It seems a little on the fringe side though... and how many people were required to be named that to get into the top 1000 back in 1901? Kaede has prob'ly become more standard in Japan in the past few decades... and I don't know if ANY Jpns. names have ever made the top 1000 in the States unless there are western names that match them in spelling and/or sound (like Ken, Mari, Marika, Marina, Erika, etc.). Wonder how many people shook their heads back then when Maple was used... It may be possible that with the large name base and larger population from which to make current top 1000 lists, there would be names that more people use now that wouldn't make it. Not sure what the numbers would be for that though. Whatever the case, I wouldn't want to walk around with that as a personal fn... though it would be fine as a surname.