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in reply to a message by Miss Claire
Junior does - I rather feel that calling your child Junior is even more unimaginative than merely repeating the father's name, but people do it!
Infant and Unknown won't be names. The data for the US popularities is collected when people apply for "social security numbers" either for themselves or for their children. In the case of "Infant" and "Unknown", the child's name may not have been decided yet, or the person filling out the form may have been in a hurry and not able to find out the name in time - or it might even be that the child died before being named (I don't know enough about US systems to say for sure). But they won't be actual names.
:-)
Infant and Unknown won't be names. The data for the US popularities is collected when people apply for "social security numbers" either for themselves or for their children. In the case of "Infant" and "Unknown", the child's name may not have been decided yet, or the person filling out the form may have been in a hurry and not able to find out the name in time - or it might even be that the child died before being named (I don't know enough about US systems to say for sure). But they won't be actual names.
:-)
This message was edited 11/16/2004, 4:15 PM
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