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Look at the last little square... Do names like Infant, Junior or Unknown exist??
Look at the last little square... Do names like Infant, Junior or Unknown exist??
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What about M, F, and P? Those are on there too. nm
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M and F are probably Male and Female, but P has me stumped . . . I'll have to think about that one. One possibility is that P is in fact a mis-transcribing of F.
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Premature?? (nm)
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Person?
Or it could be simply an initial--like Harry S Truman, whose parents couldn't decide between Samuel and another S name, so they comprimised by using just S. Harry usually wrote it "S.", but the birth certificate is without the period.
You can find lots of other initials in those old popularities, like these, which are from the 1900s top 100 list:
J (35th)
W (61st)
C (75th)
A (83rd)
R (92nd)
E (94th)
H (97th)
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Or it could be simply an initial--like Harry S Truman, whose parents couldn't decide between Samuel and another S name, so they comprimised by using just S. Harry usually wrote it "S.", but the birth certificate is without the period.
You can find lots of other initials in those old popularities, like these, which are from the 1900s top 100 list:
J (35th)
W (61st)
C (75th)
A (83rd)
R (92nd)
E (94th)
H (97th)
Miranda
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My son was born in England - long story! - and I came back to South Africa with him when he was 3 weeks old. We had to get travel documents, ticket etc arranged before the birth, when gender was unknown let alone names, and though he was able to travel on his very own passport, speedily issued complete with names and unrecognisable photo, his plane ticket was made out to INF (Surname), as if they were his initials, though it was short for Infant. They left the Gender block blank! And I amused myself during the long night hours trying to design names for him: Ignatius Norman Ferdinand seemed suitably horrible if I remember.
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Junior does - I rather feel that calling your child Junior is even more unimaginative than merely repeating the father's name, but people do it!
Infant and Unknown won't be names. The data for the US popularities is collected when people apply for "social security numbers" either for themselves or for their children. In the case of "Infant" and "Unknown", the child's name may not have been decided yet, or the person filling out the form may have been in a hurry and not able to find out the name in time - or it might even be that the child died before being named (I don't know enough about US systems to say for sure). But they won't be actual names.
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Infant and Unknown won't be names. The data for the US popularities is collected when people apply for "social security numbers" either for themselves or for their children. In the case of "Infant" and "Unknown", the child's name may not have been decided yet, or the person filling out the form may have been in a hurry and not able to find out the name in time - or it might even be that the child died before being named (I don't know enough about US systems to say for sure). But they won't be actual names.
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This message was edited 11/16/2004, 4:15 PM
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