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in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
I had no idea there were so many celebrity child Harpers! The only one I was aware of is Harper Beckham (born 2011) which probably explains why the name became popular here in 2012 and is now in the top 50 (when surnames as first names for girls is generally pretty rare).
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And the thing is that Harper Lee chose to publish "To Kill A Mockingbird" using her middle name and last name, eliminating her first, only because she was afraid that her first name, Nelle, would be continually mispronounced as NELL-ee, when it was actually NELL. It wasn't some endorsement of the use of Harper on girls! Ugh.
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