Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Cecil
25 -12
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Lindsay
25 -8
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Wiremu
25 new
96.
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Arnold
26 new
96.
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Clive
26 -6
96.
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Herbert
26 -27
96.
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Lionel
26 -1
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Warwick
27 new
93.
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Clarence
28 +5
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Derek
28 -3
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Leo
30 -4
90.
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Edwin
31 -5
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Sydney
31 new
89.
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Laurence
32 -11
88.
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Roger
33 -14
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Denis
34 +10
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Philip
34 -15
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Samuel
34 new
82.
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Andrew
35 -7
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Cyril
35 -4
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Ralph
35 -2
78.
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Clifford
36 +4
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Dennis
36 +17
78.
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Frank
36 -19
78.
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Harry
36 +2
76.
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Ross
39 0
76.
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Victor
39 +7
74.
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Maxwell
41 +25
74.
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Robin
41 +3
72.
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Hugh
43 -1
72.
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Stuart
43 +12
71.
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Paul
45 0
70.
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Allen
46 +15
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Reginald
47 -10
68.
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Gerald
49 +17
67.
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Geoffrey
52 -3
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Lawrence
53 -5
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Neville
57 +7
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Owen
57 -16
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Alexander
58 -17
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Harold
58 -9
61.
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Anthony
59 +6
60.
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Terence
60 +8
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Bernard
61 -5
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Kevin
62 +3
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Russell
63 -7
55.
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Bryan
64 +3
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Malcolm
64 +6
54.
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Ernest
66 +12
53.
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Walter
68 -14
50.
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Alfred
69 -8
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Jack
69 -5
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Roy
69 -8
49.
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Leonard
71 -12
48.
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Michael
72 +7
46.
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Joseph
73 +4
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Neil
73 +18
44.
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Henry
76 +8
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Murray
76 +5
42.
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Frederick
78 +2
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Stanley
78 -2
40.
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Francis
86 -3
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Patrick
86 0
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Mervyn
89 +6
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Graeme
93 +20
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Rex
93 +18
36.
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Desmond
94 -7
35.
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Noel
95 -3
34.
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Ivan
98 0
32.
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Albert
101 +4
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Eric
101 -1
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Norman
114 +2
30.
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Maurice
116 -11
29.
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Allan
117 -5
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Richard
130 -1
26.
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Barry
131 +9
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Leslie
131 -5
25.
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Keith
133 -10
23.
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Arthur
134 -6
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Charles
134 +7
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Graham
135 +2
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Gordon
139 -2
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Alan
140 +6
19.
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Edward
143 +3
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Trevor
147 +10
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Bruce
152 +5
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Douglas
168 +2
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Thomas
188 -2
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Colin
197 -1
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Kenneth
198 +3
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George
226 0
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Ian
271 0
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Raymond
275 0
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Ronald
301 -4
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Donald
302 0
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Peter
309 -1
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Brian
310 +3
5.
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David
327 +2
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James
416 0
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Robert
437 0
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William
548 0
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John
893 0
Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Janice
26 new
98.
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Monica
26 new
98.
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Rona
26 -15
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Valmai
26 new
96.
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Ailsa
27 -11
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Mabel
27 new
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Agnes
28 -31
91.
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Gwendoline
29 -20
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Ivy
29 -4
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Noelene
29 new
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Vera
29 -8
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Isobel
30 new
88.
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Jill
31 new
88.
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Rosemary
31 -1
86.
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Aileen
32 +13
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Ethel
32 +1
84.
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Melva
33 new
84.
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Winifred
33 +8
82.
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Constance
34 new
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Lesley
34 -3
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Diana
35 -6
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Beverly
36 new
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Edith
36 +8
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Isabel
36 +19
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Violet
36 +10
74.
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Annie
37 -6
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Gloria
37 +1
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Jessie
37 +5
72.
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Peggy
38 +20
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Rita
38 -6
70.
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Ann
39 +26
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Muriel
39 +2
69.
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Jennifer
40 new
67.
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Grace
42 +29
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Josephine
42 -13
65.
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Iris
45 +3
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Lorraine
45 +2
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Alison
46 -7
61.
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Alice
47 -8
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Doris
47 -11
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Elsie
47 +1
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Ellen
48 +10
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Sylvia
49 +1
56.
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Beryl
52 +3
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Irene
52 -18
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Yvonne
52 -8
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Florence
53 -1
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Edna
54 -6
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Hazel
55 +11
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Jocelyn
55 +4
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Catherine
56 -8
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Mavis
56 -16
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Evelyn
57 +1
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Gladys
58 +10
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Olive
58 +17
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Anne
60 +15
44.
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Heather
65 +8
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Marion
65 +1
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Thelma
66 +3
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Lorna
69 0
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Frances
70 -3
38.
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Elaine
71 0
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Fay
71 -4
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Phyllis
71 -8
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Nola
72 -2
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Ruth
72 +2
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Lois
73 -4
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Janet
76 +12
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Noeline
77 -8
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Joy
79 +10
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Norma
81 -3
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Daphne
85 -3
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Judith
86 +9
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Marjorie
86 +5
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Pauline
91 +5
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Dawn
96 +3
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Colleen
109 +1
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Pamela
110 0
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Eileen
111 +1
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Ngaire
111 -2
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Nancy
112 +1
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Audrey
124 -6
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Helen
129 0
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Doreen
134 -6
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Kathleen
138 0
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Beverley
146 +5
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Joyce
150 0
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Jean
160 0
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Marie
160 +3
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Maureen
166 +6
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Valerie
173 -1
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June
183 -1
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Elizabeth
204 -1
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Betty
214 -2
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Barbara
222 +4
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Dorothy
227 +1
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Mary
282 -1
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Joan
287 +1
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Patricia
327 -1
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Shirley
333 +1
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Margaret
775 0