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I'm surprised that Mary is even as high as #112 nationwide. It only went out of the top 100 as recently as 2009. I'm surprised because I have never known a Mary who would be younger than her late forties now. I knew a couple of young Marys when I myself was young, but neither of them would be younger than their late forties now.

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I live in South Carolina now, and I've known three Marys here, all of them now in their fifties. I've never met a young Mary here, and never heard of anyone naming their baby Mary.

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Well, I guess the Mary lovers are somewhere out there, even though I don't know them. Because I don't know them, I always think of Mary as a name that is these days avoided like the plague because of its former massive popularity, and reading the statistics still can't shake that image for me.

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