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If it does rebound in popularity, it's going to be a long long time. I'm betting not sooner than a hundred to a hundred and fifty years from now. The board has a lot of people who love Mary, but I think the general public agrees with me---it was so consistently popular for so long that it became robbed of any personality, and when you name your daughter Mary, you may as well be naming her "Hey You." Also, I'm older than most people here, so Mary was more popular when I was born and for the two decades before and after I was born than it was for most people here. In fact, it was still #1 the year I was born. So I've known quite a lot of girls/women named Mary. No fewer than 10. It is so not "refreshing" to me, for all that I know that it's now out of the top hundred. It's a name that is going to hang in the public consciousness as generic for a long time, even once it happens, if it hasn't already, that most people don't know anyone named Mary.