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Topic: AGAIN names. Which names are most popular (or unusual) in the USA

Easy topic, all the BOBS, JENIFFERS, ..

How many internationalities do we have on chordie?
- USA
- UK the winners
but about other countries like BELGIUM, THE NETHERLANDS, SCANDINAVIANS???

Times changed, but in the period of 1900-1940, most kids were baptized with names like:
- MARIA
- JOSEPH.
It was really funny in the early 80ties when I had a house call in a "retirement home".
When I said the name MARIA loud enough, 75% of the women stood up.
Same for JOSEPH
It was a tradition here to have 3 or 4 names, like my grandmother's name: MARIA, and her second name was CLEMENTINE, the name she used but wasn't on her passport.
MOST POPULAR NAMES FOR GIRLS:
- Emma - Marie - Laura en Julie  (In the Dutch speaking part of Belgium)
MOST POPULAR NAMES FOR BOYS:
- Milan - Robbe - Wout  - Kobe - Thomas     

SOME OF THE MOST UNUSUAL NAMES:
-  Bahrein, Bonaventure, Bru, Caesar  Poen (= money) others Rembrandt and 1 even Rolex.

What's the situation over there?

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Re: AGAIN names. Which names are most popular (or unusual) in the USA

Well, when my first child came along she was a girl.  My wife and I had always liked the name Sarah, but when we checked the popularity lists, we saw that Sarah had been the number one or two name the two previous years.  So, we skipped using it and selected another name we liked: Abigail.  It hadn't appeared anywhere on the list of the top twenty.  Guess what?  That year, Abigail was a dark horse and took the number two spot for most common name for girls.  So when the second came along, we didn't check the lists and went ahead and named her Sarah.

We had another between them who died before he was born so we didn't get to name, but will always be Peter William in my mind. 

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