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Re: South Africa too!

by Llewella (penguiny7)

6/22/2009, 3:13 AM

in reply to a message by Anneza

I've known at least one female Nikita in the US too.

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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans) +2

6/22/2009, 5:09 AM

Nikita was on the SSA top 1000 list for girls in the USA most years between 1972 and 2001. It's never been on that list for boys since 1880.

- Anneza +1

6/22/2009, 10:40 PM

Would it have been an immigrant name in the 19th century? Perhaps that would explain firstly its use and then, when the families had assimilated, its disuse. Only if there were enough Slavic immigrants to make an impression on the statistics, though!

- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)

6/24/2009, 10:38 AM

I think you misunderstood my saying "it's never been on the SSA list since 1880." 1880 is the very first year the SSA list starts. So we don't have that data before that year, and can't say anything about the use of Nikita in the USA before that date, one way or the other, from that data alone. So my statement does NOT imply that Nikita was among the top 1000 names for boys before 1880. :)

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