Re: SSA's 'Most Popular Baby Names by State' list has been released (m)
in reply to a message by Caroline
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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Yeah, I go to a Catholic college in Massachusetts and Marys are a dime a dozen. I still love the name, I just know tons of young girls with it. I don't think I met any at my public inner-city high school in CT. A few girls named Maria but no Mary.
I know 3 marys about my age that just go by Mary. But I'm in the south.
I really like Mary by itself, but I hate the Mary double names.