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I can't do the stats your way: my country doesn't keep any naming stats at all, and the UK (which would have been more likely than the USA to influence namers here until about 1990) doesn't keep the right kind. So I used the American data, which is wonderful and a joy to navigate. It didn't convince me, so I fiddled. Instead of counting in decades: 2020, 2010, 2000 etc, I counted in half-decades: 2020, 2015, 2010, 2005 ... and found that the differences were remarkable. Or, mine were! I used the decade of my birth to get the ranking numbers, and these are the results:
2020 Genesis + Lydia
2015 Caroline + Vivian
2010 Jasmine + Naomi
2005 Jenna + Claire
2000 Vanessa + Katie
1995 Julia + Sabrina
1990 Christine + Alexandria
1985 Cassandra + Nichole
1980 Susan + Denise
1975 Dana + Sherry
1970 Ann + Jodi
1965 Debbie + Jane
1960 Annette + Dorothy
1955 Lynn + Sally
1950 Sherry + Jeanne
1945 Christine + Ruby
1940 Sylvia + Lorraine
1935 Bonnie + Ellen
1930 Grace + Bertha
1925 Wilma + Myrtle
1920 Pearl + Nancy
1915 Mabel + Beulah
1910 Ella + Maggie
1905 Hattie + Georgia/Velma (dead heat)
1900 Lula + Olive
1895 Fannie + Lottie
1890 Dora + Etta
1885 Mamie + Willie
1880 Nancy + Olive

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Quite the Chamber of Horrors! I'm so happy not to have been born between 1900 and 1880, but none of the others would really suit the person I am. No doubt I'd have become some version of all those names. Yikes!