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in reply to a message by Kimberly
Anthony is news to me. Looking at its popularity graph from this site, I had no idea it maintained that level of usage. It never struck me as a particularly popular first name.
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Anthony is a name which is probably much more common in working class and non-White communities in the USA than it is in the middle class White communities I think most posters on name boards live in. :)
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I know a baby born this year named Anthony to a doctor & laywer parent combo. It's still very popular in families of Italian descent on the whole, not just working class.
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Ah, okay.
I'd considered that; offhand I could only think of two Anthonys I knew my age, one of which was born in France so he wouldn't have made a blip on the American naming scene anyway. I've always lived in lower-middle to middle class predominantly white rural areas, so it would make sense, then, if I hadn't seen it too much, if it's most popular in another demographic.
My closest experience with Anthony having any kind of noticeable popularity (and Raymond, for that matter) is that it tended to be used in my family more for the kids from the 50's or 60's. So I tended to pigeonhole it into the '40-60 year old men of Italian American descent' sort of category. Seems like everyone I know with Italian background has an Uncle Ray or an Uncle Tony. :-)
I'd considered that; offhand I could only think of two Anthonys I knew my age, one of which was born in France so he wouldn't have made a blip on the American naming scene anyway. I've always lived in lower-middle to middle class predominantly white rural areas, so it would make sense, then, if I hadn't seen it too much, if it's most popular in another demographic.
My closest experience with Anthony having any kind of noticeable popularity (and Raymond, for that matter) is that it tended to be used in my family more for the kids from the 50's or 60's. So I tended to pigeonhole it into the '40-60 year old men of Italian American descent' sort of category. Seems like everyone I know with Italian background has an Uncle Ray or an Uncle Tony. :-)
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