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[Facts] Re: My 2015 "spellings added together" list for US boys
Thanks! It's crazy how popular aiden names still are. I wonder if many spellings makes a name linger for longer, because without many spellings, a name's popularity is easily discovered these days. I hope you're coming out with a girls list too?
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Yes, I am planning on posting a girls' list, but that takes even longer because parents are even more willing to respell girls' names than boys' names. Plus it is harder to make decisions about where to put all of the ambiguous spellings. Are Miya, Miyah, and Miah alternate spellings of Mia or Maya, for instance? I have done enough of the girls' list to get an accurate top ten and will post a link to my newspaper column about that when it comes out tomorrow.
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