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But people aren't actually going around naming their sons Elizabeth and their daughters William in the USA. You are no doubt looking at Social Security Administration popularity lists from the early days, and you'll see that kind of thing there; boys supposedly named girls' names, vice versa, also people supposedly named Unknown, Baby, Infant, Girl, or Male.
This reflects problems with record-keeping. (You'll even see "Brain" listed as a name, but really it was a misspelled/miswritten/mistyped Brian.)

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