Popular Names in Scotland

Information from National Records of Scotland
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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John		 9.64% 0
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James		 8.41% 0
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William		 6.34% 0
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David		 5.77% 0
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Robert		 5.28% 0
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Thomas		 3.71% 0
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Alexander		 2.96% 0
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Ian		 2.85% +1
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George		 2.61% -1
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Brian		 2.26% +3
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Alan		 2.16% -1
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Michael		 2.13% 0
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Andrew		 2.07% -2
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Peter		 2.04% 0
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Gordon		 1.67% 0
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Kenneth		 1.58% 0
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Charles		 1.38% 0
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Colin		 1.20% +3
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Ronald		 1.08% -1
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Joseph		 1.07% -1
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Richard		 0.99% +4
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Douglas		 0.98% 0
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Donald		 0.96% -3
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Allan		 0.93% 0
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Graham		 0.93% +5
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Hugh		 0.92% -3
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Edward		 0.89% -1
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Stephen		 0.89% +3
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Francis		 0.83% -1
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Derek		 0.75% -3
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Iain		 0.73% -1
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Patrick		 0.69% +1
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Alistair		 0.68% +3
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Neil		 0.67% -2
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Norman		 0.62% 0
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Raymond		 0.59% +1
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Daniel		 0.58% -3
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Paul		 0.56% 0
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Stuart		 0.55% +1
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Henry		 0.51% -1
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Martin		 0.50% 0
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Stewart		 0.47% +3
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Duncan		 0.45% 0
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Malcolm		 0.44% -1
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Anthony		 0.43% +2
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Gerard		 0.43% -3
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Alastair		 0.42% -1
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Christopher		 0.40% 0
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Angus		 0.39% +8
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Eric		 0.39% -1
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Leslie		 0.37% 0
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Graeme		 0.37% +4
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Keith		 0.36% +6
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Philip		 0.35% -1
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Archibald		 0.34% -5
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Samuel		 0.34% -2
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Gerald		 0.32% -6
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Walter		 0.32% 0
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Arthur		 0.29% -4
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Matthew		 0.27% 0
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Frederick		 0.27% +4
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Roderick		 0.26% -1
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Frank		 0.26% +1
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Steven		 0.25% +2
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Bernard		 0.21% -3
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Gary		 0.20% +10
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Terence		 0.18% -4
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Kevin		 0.18% +3
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Bruce		 0.17% +1
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Gavin		 0.17% -3
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Robin		 0.16% +7
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Mark		 0.16% +11
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Scott		 0.14% +10
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Adam		 0.14% 0
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Lawrence		 0.14% -2
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Albert		 0.13% -7
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Stanley		 0.13% +1
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Jack		 0.13% +4
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Roy		 0.13% -7
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Dennis		 0.12% -13
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Harry		 0.12% -6
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Leonard		 0.12% +15
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Bryan		 0.11% -4
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Denis		 0.11% +2
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Jeffrey		 0.11% +3
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Alasdair		 0.11% -5
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Vincent		 0.11% +8
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Garry		 0.10% +1
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Simon		 0.10% new
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Alfred		 0.10% -10
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Hamish		 0.09% +6
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Maurice		 0.09% +1
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Nigel		 0.09% +3
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Campbell		 0.09% new
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Roger		 0.09% -2
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Alister		 0.09% new
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Laurence		 0.09% -7
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Nicholas		 0.09% +4
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Ross		 0.08% -13
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Geoffrey		 0.08% new
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Margaret		 6.66% 0
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Elizabeth		 5.13% 0
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Mary		 4.09% 0
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Linda		 3.39% 0
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Anne		 3.10% 0
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Catherine		 2.91% 0
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Helen		 2.31% 0
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Patricia		 1.96% +1
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Ann		 1.87% -1
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Susan		 1.51% +6
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Janet		 1.42% +4
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Agnes		 1.38% +2
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Maureen		 1.38% -2
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Christine		 1.36% -4
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Jean		 1.35% -3
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Irene		 1.28% -3
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Jane		 1.23% +2
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Carol		 1.20% 0
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Sandra		 1.18% +1
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Kathleen		 1.13% +1
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Elaine		 1.12% +3
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Fiona		 1.10% +1
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Sheila		 1.09% -1
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Alison		 1.06% +2
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Marion		 1.04% -8
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June		 0.91% +3
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Moira		 0.88% -2
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Janice		 0.86% +4
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Joan		 0.81% -1
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Jacqueline		 0.81% +5
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Barbara		 0.76% -4
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Isabella		 0.74% +1
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Dorothy		 0.73% -3
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Joyce		 0.72% -3
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Frances		 0.66% +3
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Eileen		 0.65% +1
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Evelyn		 0.65% +7
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Lesley		 0.64% -4
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Sarah		 0.64% +7
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Christina		 0.62% -4
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Lorna		 0.61% +10
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Jennifer		 0.60% -1
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Rosemary		 0.58% -4
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Caroline		 0.56% +4
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Valerie		 0.55% +1
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Marie		 0.54% +3
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Annie		 0.54% -5
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Brenda		 0.53% +4
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Morag		 0.52% -5
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Pamela		 0.51% +7
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Isobel		 0.50% -6
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Janette		 0.48% -2
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Lorraine		 0.48% +3
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Yvonne		 0.46% +3
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Heather		 0.45% 0
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Eleanor		 0.43% -3
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Angela		 0.43% +3
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Audrey		 0.42% +10
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Aileen		 0.41% +6
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Sheena		 0.39% -7
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Alice		 0.38% +8
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Gillian		 0.38% +16
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Rose		 0.38% +5
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Shirley		 0.37% +15
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Norma		 0.36% -5
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Grace		 0.36% +5
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Ellen		 0.35% -4
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Pauline		 0.35% +14
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Hazel		 0.35% +3
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Ruth		 0.34% +2
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Alexandra		 0.32% -2
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Karen		 0.32% +26
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Doreen		 0.31% -9
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Wilma		 0.31% -8
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Carole		 0.31% +16
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Sylvia		 0.30% +1
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Jessie		 0.30% -18
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Josephine		 0.27% +5
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Isabel		 0.27% -4
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Maria		 0.27% -3
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Diane		 0.27% +5
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Georgina		 0.27% +1
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Annette		 0.26% +1
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Lynn		 0.25% +5
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Jeanette		 0.24% -11
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Shona		 0.23% new
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Janis		 0.23% new
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Lynda		 0.22% -8
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Williamina		 0.22% 0
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Anna		 0.22% -3
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Teresa		 0.21% -6
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Gail		 0.21% +7
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Marilyn		 0.21% -31
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May		 0.20% new
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Louise		 0.19% +1
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Avril		 0.19% -6
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Martha		 0.19% +3
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Lynne		 0.19% -5
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Carolyn		 0.18% new
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Laura		 0.18% new
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Theresa		 0.18% -7
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Popularity extremes for Scotland