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Here is the link to today's column:
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-stacy-has-been-a-first-name-for-hundreds-of-years-peaking-for-us/article_4d18b6f8-1d73-11ef-a488-b341bb8c172b.html
It's interesting to me that just like Tammy a month ago, I found that Stacy has been used as a name for girls longer than I suspected, with there being enough of them in the 1850 U.S. census to call it "established" if rare.
For boys I was fascinated to be able to see the connection of Stacy as a boys' name with New Jersey and be able to link it to Mahlon and Robert Stacy, early Quaker settlers of West Jersey. I think that among the original 13 colonies New Jersey's history is among the least known outside its own home state.
And it is really unusual that I could not find examples of real or fictional women or girls named Stacy that could account for its sudden huge increase in use in the United States during the 1960s. Perhaps there is still some figure forgotten today who was the cause of this.
https://omaha.com/life-entertainment/local/cleveland-evans-stacy-has-been-a-first-name-for-hundreds-of-years-peaking-for-us/article_4d18b6f8-1d73-11ef-a488-b341bb8c172b.html
It's interesting to me that just like Tammy a month ago, I found that Stacy has been used as a name for girls longer than I suspected, with there being enough of them in the 1850 U.S. census to call it "established" if rare.
For boys I was fascinated to be able to see the connection of Stacy as a boys' name with New Jersey and be able to link it to Mahlon and Robert Stacy, early Quaker settlers of West Jersey. I think that among the original 13 colonies New Jersey's history is among the least known outside its own home state.
And it is really unusual that I could not find examples of real or fictional women or girls named Stacy that could account for its sudden huge increase in use in the United States during the 1960s. Perhaps there is still some figure forgotten today who was the cause of this.
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