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Actually as the column points out the first two Seans born in the USA (according to census records) were not children of recent Irish immigrants, but grandsons of Irish immigrants whose own parents were highly educated. This is normal, as highly educated persons would have been those most likely to be paying attention to how the Irish language forms of names were being revived back in Ireland, and later generations were actually more likely to want to revive names from their ancestry than immigrants, who would want to assimilate.