Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Lindsay		 26 new
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Robin		 26 0
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Stuart		 26 -19
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Wilfred		 26 0
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Arnold		 27 +4
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Athol		 27 -2
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Derek		 27 +1
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Roger		 27 -7
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Samuel		 27 +1
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Selwyn		 27 new
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Edwin		 29 +1
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Vernon		 29 new
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Bryan		 32 -8
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Laurence		 33 -16
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Lloyd		 33 new
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Wallace		 33 +10
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Dennis		 34 +13
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Allen		 35 -9
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Gerald		 36 -1
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Neville		 36 +5
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Paul		 37 new
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Maxwell		 39 0
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Ralph		 39 -8
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Terence		 39 +12
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Victor		 39 -5
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Philip		 40 +11
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Harry		 41 -4
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Hugh		 41 +21
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Leo		 41 +5
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Sydney		 41 +9
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Andrew		 42 -8
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Anthony		 45 0
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Graeme		 47 +8
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Herbert		 47 -7
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Ross		 47 +18
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Clifford		 53 +8
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Geoffrey		 53 -7
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Neil		 54 -1
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Cyril		 55 -2
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Bernard		 56 -6
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Michael		 58 +2
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Lawrence		 59 -6
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Kevin		 62 -11
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Owen		 62 -1
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Malcolm		 64 +10
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Reginald		 64 +2
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Ernest		 66 -8
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Russell		 66 +8
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Barry		 67 +13
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Frank		 71 +5
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Murray		 71 +2
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Rex		 71 -3
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Harold		 74 -4
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Joseph		 74 -3
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Leonard		 80 -8
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Roy		 80 +4
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Alfred		 83 +8
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Patrick		 85 -2
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Henry		 92 +7
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Alexander		 93 -3
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Ivan		 98 -8
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Mervyn		 98 0
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Frederick		 100 +1
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Jack		 101 -2
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Albert		 104 0
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Walter		 105 +7
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Norman		 110 -6
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Stanley		 111 0
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Graham		 121 +16
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Noel		 124 -1
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Francis		 125 +4
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Edward		 135 -6
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Allan		 144 +3
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Charles		 144 0
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Desmond		 144 -4
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Bruce		 146 +7
24.
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Eric		 148 -4
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Trevor		 148 +1
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Leslie		 153 -2
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Richard		 154 0
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Maurice		 157 +4
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Alan		 160 +7
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Arthur		 162 0
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Gordon		 165 -5
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Douglas		 176 0
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Kenneth		 194 0
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Keith		 211 +3
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Thomas		 211 -4
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Colin		 214 +1
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George		 255 -4
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Ian		 256 +1
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Brian		 261 +5
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Donald		 262 +2
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David		 274 +1
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Peter		 302 -1
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Raymond		 315 +1
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Ronald		 355 0
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Robert		 434 0
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James		 436 0
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William		 616 0
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John		 911 0
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Molly		 28 new
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Ruby		 29 -7
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Valma		 29 new
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Noelene		 30 new
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Vera		 30 -17
93.
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Anne		 31 +3
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Constance		 31 new
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Freda		 31 new
90.
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Beatrice		 32 -5
90.
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Grace		 32 +8
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Isobel		 32 -10
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Ailsa		 33 -11
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Judith		 33 -7
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Myra		 33 new
84.
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Elva		 35 +7
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Lesley		 35 new
84.
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Merle		 35 +1
83.
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Dulcie		 37 -13
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Alma		 38 +17
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Ivy		 38 -11
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Aileen		 39 +3
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Rona		 39 +6
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Eunice		 40 -4
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Janet		 40 -15
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Agnes		 41 -12
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Lorraine		 42 +11
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Violet		 42 -17
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Valmai		 43 +10
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Rita		 44 +2
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Elaine		 45 -15
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Olive		 45 -23
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Jessie		 46 +1
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Jocelyn		 46 +23
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Ethel		 48 +27
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Gwendoline		 48 +20
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Peggy		 48 +4
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Winifred		 48 0
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Catherine		 50 -11
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Josephine		 51 +12
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Iris		 53 +3
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Edith		 55 +2
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Ellen		 55 -4
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Muriel		 55 +1
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Hazel		 57 -17
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Annie		 58 -6
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Evelyn		 59 +1
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Heather		 59 +22
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Alice		 60 +10
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Marion		 60 -11
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Pauline		 62 -6
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Sylvia		 62 +11
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Fay		 66 +9
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Frances		 67 -12
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Yvonne		 67 -6
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Alison		 68 +21
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Edna		 70 -8
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Florence		 70 +5
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Lois		 72 -1
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Ruth		 72 -3
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Gladys		 73 +5
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Elsie		 74 +13
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Joy		 74 -1
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Doris		 75 +12
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Dawn		 78 -5
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Beryl		 79 +1
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Irene		 81 -9
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Thelma		 87 -8
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Pamela		 91 +14
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Noeline		 92 -3
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Lorna		 93 -5
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Marjorie		 94 0
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Beverley		 96 +15
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Daphne		 97 -9
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Mavis		 97 -7
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Colleen		 102 +5
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Nancy		 103 -1
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Maureen		 107 +9
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Helen		 110 +4
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Norma		 110 +2
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Phyllis		 110 0
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Nola		 132 +13
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Eileen		 141 +3
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Marie		 147 -2
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Audrey		 149 -5
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Ngaire		 157 +2
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Barbara		 163 +2
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Doreen		 175 +1
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Valerie		 185 0
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Jean		 188 -1
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Kathleen		 193 +3
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Elizabeth		 206 -1
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Joyce		 226 -1
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June		 249 +2
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Dorothy		 263 0
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Joan		 302 0
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Betty		 316 -2
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Patricia		 351 0
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Mary		 365 +2
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Shirley		 406 0
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Margaret		 521 0
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Popularity extremes for New Zealand