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  • #1

    How popular is your name?

    I was randomly searching for the etymology and meaning of a forename and came upon this site. Ignore the fact that it is designed for finding baby's names, and type in your name. Not only do you get the origin and meaning of the name, but if you scroll down a bit, there is a graph of how popular the name is.

    My name reached the peak of popularity in the 1940's at a low 1,141 per million babies (don't know if that includes both boys and girls), and no, I'm not quite that old (but almost )

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    Endless wonder.
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    Mine peaked in the 1940s too @1,655 per million. Seems the name fell out of use about 1975
    I'm starting to feel like a museum piece

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    • #3
      Mine was popular in the 70s which I knew and known as the dark haired one ...except I'm not dark haired

      OH with the spelling of his name comes up as zero entires
      Northern England.

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      • #4
        When I took my children to parties and stayed to help out, when picking up time came and someone said "Jane" 5+ heads would turn. Definitely a generational thing.

        I was named after an aunt 2 generations before me. So I assume my name has been popular for a long time. I used to hate it as being old fashioned but now love it as being feminine. Even though I'm a bit of a tom boy I still like to dress up sometimes.
        Last edited by JanieB; 23-07-2017, 08:36 PM.
        "I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
        "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
        Oxfordshire

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        • #5
          I just tried it with Veggie and Chicken
          Would you believe it had no record of either but I was invited to start a page for the names


          But I didn't

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          • #6
            JanieB my middle name is Jayne
            I was named after girls my brothers knew at school , they chose my name.
            Last edited by Containergardener; 23-07-2017, 08:43 PM.
            Northern England.

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            • #7
              My name was popular in the 1880's.
              Carrie

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              • #8
                There were 5 of us Jane's in my year. In Domestic Science we had to sew aprons for cookery with our initials on the bib. On top of the 5 Janes, 3 of whom had the same last initial there were the Jennies and Judiths, some of whom had the same last initial. The Domestic Science teacher whittled us down to those who had a middle name putting their middle initial in. That left me with no middle name. To distinguish me from the other Janes and Judiths/Jennies with the same last initial I was designated JanieB and that has stayed with me for the rest of my life. I even married a man whose surname began with B.
                Last edited by JanieB; 23-07-2017, 09:00 PM.
                "I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
                "It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
                Oxfordshire

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                • #9
                  My name only ever managed 223 per million, so not surprising it took us both a while to get used to having two of us in class when We got to sixth form!

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                  • #10
                    230 per million...most popular in the '70s.
                    Then I decided to check out nicos!

                    Couldn't believe it!...it's not there!...I'd have thought it would have been one of the most popular names in Greece!

                    Just goes to show!
                    Last edited by Nicos; 23-07-2017, 09:03 PM.
                    "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

                    Location....Normandy France

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                    • #11
                      #5 Strange no Potty either.............
                      Potty by name Potty by nature.

                      By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.


                      We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.

                      Aesop 620BC-560BC

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                      • #12
                        Hebrew name for me and peaked in U.S.A in 1990's.

                        And when your back stops aching,
                        And your hands begin to harden.
                        You will find yourself a partner,
                        In the glory of the garden.

                        Rudyard Kipling.sigpic

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                        • #13
                          Well I am a goddess and Queen of the Gods! Peak was 1920's 2,232 per million.
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                          • #14
                            My real name peaked in 1920s 122 per million
                            The name everyone knows me by peaked in 1880s 1.216 per million
                            ( but isn't accurate because these are the numbers for the male population )

                            Is everyone nicely confused?

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                            • #15
                              Mine peaked in the 1880s.

                              By the time I was 25 I'd only ever met two others with my name, both were in classes I attended, and one spelled hers differently.... ��

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