Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Archie
12 new
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Phillip
12 new
98.
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Athol
13 new
98.
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Oliver
13 new
92.
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Angus
14 -9
92.
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Lewis
14 -12
92.
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Matthew
14 +6
92.
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Trevor
14 new
92.
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Vernon
14 new
92.
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Wallace
14 new
90.
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Guy
15 new
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Martin
15 -10
88.
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Bertie
16 -1
88.
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Vincent
16 -13
86.
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Bernard
17 -14
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Roland
17 -2
84.
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Duncan
18 new
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Geoffrey
18 -10
81.
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Arnold
19 -18
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Edgar
19 -5
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Stephen
19 +6
79.
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Keith
21 +14
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Noel
21 +11
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Claude
22 -24
75.
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Gerald
22 +23
75.
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Howard
22 +3
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Lionel
22 -6
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Edmund
23 new
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Laurence
23 +23
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Malcolm
23 +8
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Ralph
23 -10
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Sidney
23 +2
68.
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Leo
24 -5
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Percival
24 +16
67.
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Ivan
25 -8
65.
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Clifford
26 +12
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Louis
26 +4
63.
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Archibald
28 -10
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Gilbert
28 -3
61.
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Colin
29 -1
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Peter
29 -3
59.
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Daniel
30 +4
59.
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Ian
30 +8
58.
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Michael
32 +11
56.
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Alan
33 +7
56.
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Philip
33 +11
55.
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Patrick
35 -6
53.
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Horace
39 -2
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Lawrence
39 +2
52.
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Wilfred
42 -3
51.
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Edwin
46 +4
50.
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Raymond
48 +4
49.
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Maurice
49 +6
47.
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Jack
52 +1
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Kenneth
52 -5
46.
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Andrew
55 -6
45.
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Donald
56 -7
44.
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Harry
58 -10
43.
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Sydney
60 +2
42.
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Douglas
62 -4
41.
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Hugh
63 +2
40.
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Ronald
64 0
38.
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Allan
65 +6
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Victor
65 +7
37.
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Roy
67 0
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Clarence
68 -3
35.
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Samuel
69 +12
34.
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Cyril
77 +1
33.
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Reginald
85 -1
32.
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Gordon
86 -5
31.
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Stanley
88 -2
30.
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Percy
89 +6
29.
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Frank
96 -5
28.
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Richard
100 0
27.
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Hector
101 +4
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Leonard
106 0
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Norman
112 0
24.
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Alexander
114 -9
23.
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Ernest
123 -9
22.
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Herbert
125 0
21.
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Cecil
126 +9
20.
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Harold
129 -2
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Eric
132 0
18.
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David
133 +3
17.
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Walter
137 +3
16.
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Joseph
148 +7
15.
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Francis
158 +2
14.
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Leslie
165 +2
13.
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Alfred
174 0
12.
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Henry
183 0
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Frederick
218 0
10.
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Edward
240 0
9.
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Arthur
256 -1
8.
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Albert
275 +1
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Thomas
281 0
6.
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Robert
307 0
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Charles
345 0
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George
423 -1
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James
447 +1
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John
735 0
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William
871 0
Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
95.
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Dora
21 -2
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Eliza
21 +5
95.
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Fanny
21 new
95.
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Henrietta
21 new
95.
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Myra
21 -10
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Nancy
21 new
93.
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Hannah
22 new
93.
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Stella
22 -10
92.
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Linda
23 +4
88.
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Alexandra
24 new
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Bessie
24 +1
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Doreen
24 new
88.
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Norah
24 +12
86.
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Amelia
25 -1
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Barbara
25 new
85.
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Martha
26 -11
82.
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Charlotte
27 -16
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Clarice
27 -4
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Veronica
27 +14
80.
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Eleanor
29 new
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Jean
29 -2
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Laura
30 +2
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Marjory
30 -12
77.
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Esther
31 +4
74.
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Emma
32 -4
74.
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Flora
32 -13
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Pearl
32 +15
73.
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Maud
33 +12
70.
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Daisy
34 -13
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Isabel
34 -11
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Lillian
34 -14
68.
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Ella
35 -3
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Mavis
35 -2
66.
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Gwendoline
37 +15
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Marjorie
37 -20
65.
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Iris
38 +5
64.
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Alma
39 -9
62.
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Louisa
42 -1
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Mona
42 +12
57.
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Clara
43 +32
57.
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Lilian
43 -4
57.
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Lily
43 +9
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Marion
43 -11
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Nellie
43 +15
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Beatrice
44 -2
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Bertha
44 +30
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Jane
44 -4
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Phyllis
44 +4
50.
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Constance
45 -5
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Gertrude
45 -1
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Janet
45 +9
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Ruth
46 +23
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Amy
47 +6
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Rose
47 +5
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Lucy
49 +15
45.
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Ida
51 -10
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Christina
52 +32
43.
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Hazel
55 -1
42.
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May
61 -13
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Sarah
62 -3
40.
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Ada
64 +3
37.
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Emily
72 -4
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Helen
72 +6
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Thelma
72 +4
36.
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Edna
73 +4
35.
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Frances
74 -1
34.
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Rita
76 +5
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Eva
78 +4
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Isabella
80 +3
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Hilda
81 +1
30.
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Winifred
82 -6
29.
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Evelyn
85 -1
28.
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Ruby
89 +3
27.
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Grace
91 -1
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Muriel
94 +1
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Mabel
105 +5
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Agnes
113 +2
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Irene
113 -1
22.
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Vera
115 +1
21.
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Ellen
130 -6
20.
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Olive
132 -1
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Kathleen
134 -7
17.
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Catherine
135 +4
17.
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Ivy
135 -4
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Edith
137 0
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Jessie
138 +2
14.
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Ethel
141 +4
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Violet
143 +7
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Myrtle
153 +2
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Eileen
175 0
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Elsie
176 -2
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Florence
194 +1
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Doris
195 +2
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Elizabeth
195 -2
6.
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Alice
202 +1
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Gladys
203 +1
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Annie
221 -1
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Dorothy
223 +1
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Margaret
299 0
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Mary
464 0