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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
This, and the boy list, are a wonderful resource, and I'm delighted that you've put (most!) variants together. Very useful!
Here in South Africa no such lists appear, so I don't know how they are compiled. In the case of, say, Taylor Elizabeth Surname (and I'm sure she exists), do they count both the first name and the middle name, or just the first name? Just looking at the top of the list, I see a mixture of the classic and the Kaylee, and the same on the boy list, so it would be interesting to know if parents are giving a mixture to an individual daughter or son, or if some families take the trendy and others the traditional route. How can the SSA know which name the child will be called by, if they only use the first in line? There are cases - many of them here - of children bearing the name of their grandparent in the first position but being known by their second given name; perhaps not enough to be statistically significant, though that's a guess.
Here in South Africa no such lists appear, so I don't know how they are compiled. In the case of, say, Taylor Elizabeth Surname (and I'm sure she exists), do they count both the first name and the middle name, or just the first name? Just looking at the top of the list, I see a mixture of the classic and the Kaylee, and the same on the boy list, so it would be interesting to know if parents are giving a mixture to an individual daughter or son, or if some families take the trendy and others the traditional route. How can the SSA know which name the child will be called by, if they only use the first in line? There are cases - many of them here - of children bearing the name of their grandparent in the first position but being known by their second given name; perhaps not enough to be statistically significant, though that's a guess.
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