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Well, I already used Valerie, which is still reasonably current here. Funny how Jennifer got popular in the UK quite a bit before it caught fire over here; I'm told the same is true of Heather and that both names are now seen as rather grandma-ish in the UK.
Pamela Kathleen would be very pretty. I would really like to see Kathleen get some more use, it seems fresher and less blah than Katherine ever does.
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Pamela Kathleen would be very pretty. I would really like to see Kathleen get some more use, it seems fresher and less blah than Katherine ever does.
I think, therefore I judge.
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Apparently Jennifer got popular in the UK via a George Bernard Shaw play in 1906, so maybe that's why it never took off here on the back of the US's giant wave of Jennifers in the 70s; too many old ones around. Both Jennifer and Heather were top 100 in the 1930s, & there were Heathers here in 1838.
I was just looking at the US 1944 charts though & Karen and Donna are in there - the US was at least a decade ahead of us with Karen, & Donna didn't chart here till the 60s. Strange how these things work!
I was just looking at the US 1944 charts though & Karen and Donna are in there - the US was at least a decade ahead of us with Karen, & Donna didn't chart here till the 60s. Strange how these things work!
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