Popular Names in Scotland

Information from National Records of Scotland
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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John		 10.57% 0
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James		 9.09% 0
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William		 7.10% 0
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Robert		 5.81% 0
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David		 5.32% 0
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Thomas		 3.72% 0
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Alexander		 3.31% 0
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George		 3.11% 0
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Ian		 2.65% 0
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Brian		 2.16% +1
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Andrew		 2.09% -1
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Michael		 1.88% +1
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Alan		 1.87% +1
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Peter		 1.81% -2
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Charles		 1.59% 0
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Ronald		 1.51% 0
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Gordon		 1.50% 0
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Kenneth		 1.36% 0
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Joseph		 1.10% +2
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Donald		 1.10% 0
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Douglas		 1.09% -2
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Edward		 1.04% +1
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Hugh		 1.02% -1
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Colin		 1.01% +3
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Allan		 0.90% -1
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Richard		 0.85% 0
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Francis		 0.83% -2
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Patrick		 0.74% +1
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Raymond		 0.65% +5
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Derek		 0.64% +2
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Henry		 0.63% -1
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Alistair		 0.61% +1
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Daniel		 0.59% -2
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Norman		 0.56% -6
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Neil		 0.56% 0
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Iain		 0.55% 0
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Graham		 0.54% +1
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Duncan		 0.53% -1
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Stewart		 0.47% +1
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Archibald		 0.46% -1
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Eric		 0.45% 0
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Stuart		 0.45% +2
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Malcolm		 0.40% +3
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Stephen		 0.37% +6
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Anthony		 0.37% +7
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Samuel		 0.37% -4
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Angus		 0.36% +2
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Philip		 0.36% +9
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Alastair		 0.36% -4
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Dennis		 0.35% -3
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Walter		 0.35% -3
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Arthur		 0.34% -9
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Christopher		 0.33% +1
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Leslie		 0.32% -3
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Roderick		 0.32% +3
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Gerald		 0.30% -4
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Frank		 0.29% 0
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Martin		 0.29% +2
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Matthew		 0.29% +1
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Frederick		 0.27% -6
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Paul		 0.26% 0
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Keith		 0.22% +5
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Bernard		 0.22% +1
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Terence		 0.22% +2
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Bruce		 0.21% -3
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Albert		 0.20% -2
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Denis		 0.19% -4
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Gerard		 0.19% +4
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Adam		 0.18% +2
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Harry		 0.18% +3
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Stanley		 0.17% -2
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Jack		 0.17% +4
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Graeme		 0.16% +1
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Roy		 0.15% -7
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Gavin		 0.15% -5
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Lawrence		 0.15% +2
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Robin		 0.13% +1
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Alfred		 0.13% +2
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Ernest		 0.13% +3
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Leonard		 0.12% -6
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Gilbert		 0.10% +15
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Fraser		 0.09% new
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Maurice		 0.09% new
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Laurence		 0.09% +3
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Alasdair		 0.08% +7
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Bryan		 0.08% -2
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Cameron		 0.08% new
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Hamish		 0.08% -9
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Nigel		 0.08% +4
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Victor		 0.08% +7
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Geoffrey		 0.08% +9
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Harold		 0.08% -7
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Kevin		 0.08% new
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Russell		 0.08% +4
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Alister		 0.07% -13
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Desmond		 0.07% -5
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Nicholas		 0.07% new
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Owen		 0.07% new
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Adrian		 0.07% new
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Roger		 0.07% -16
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Margaret		 7.99% 0
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Elizabeth		 5.80% 0
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Mary		 5.21% 0
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Catherine		 3.13% 0
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Anne		 2.66% +1
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Linda		 2.56% +2
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Helen		 2.29% -2
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Patricia		 2.15% -1
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Irene		 1.92% +4
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Agnes		 1.84% +2
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Kathleen		 1.82% -1
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Jean		 1.79% -3
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Ann		 1.67% -2
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Maureen		 1.57% 0
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Janet		 1.39% 0
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Sandra		 1.31% 0
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Sheila		 1.22% 0
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Christine		 1.19% 0
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Marion		 1.15% +1
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Jane		 1.14% +1
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Moira		 1.09% +9
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Isabella		 0.98% -3
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Joan		 0.94% -1
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June		 0.91% +1
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Frances		 0.86% +2
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Christina		 0.83% -2
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Annie		 0.82% -4
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Carol		 0.81% 0
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Jennifer		 0.81% 0
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Barbara		 0.79% +3
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Dorothy		 0.78% 0
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Susan		 0.75% 0
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Eileen		 0.75% -7
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Sarah		 0.70% 0
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Joyce		 0.68% 0
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Evelyn		 0.64% +4
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Rosemary		 0.61% 0
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Janice		 0.58% +9
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Janette		 0.55% 0
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Isobel		 0.54% -4
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Alison		 0.54% 0
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Jessie		 0.51% -4
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Jacqueline		 0.49% -1
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Eleanor		 0.48% +1
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Morag		 0.47% +4
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Fiona		 0.46% -3
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Brenda		 0.44% +5
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Marilyn		 0.43% +21
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Alice		 0.42% +4
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Heather		 0.42% +6
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Norma		 0.42% -4
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Valerie		 0.41% -9
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Caroline		 0.41% +1
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Ellen		 0.41% -4
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Alexandra		 0.41% +12
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Pamela		 0.41% +11
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Lorna		 0.40% +6
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Grace		 0.40% 0
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Jeanette		 0.39% -11
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Elaine		 0.39% 0
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Doreen		 0.37% -10
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Sheena		 0.37% -3
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Rose		 0.37% -6
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Georgina		 0.34% 0
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Hazel		 0.34% -2
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Wilma		 0.34% -10
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Marie		 0.34% -7
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Lesley		 0.32% +2
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Isabel		 0.31% +1
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Lynda		 0.31% new
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Yvonne		 0.31% +10
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Aileen		 0.29% 0
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Josephine		 0.28% +8
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Ruth		 0.26% -2
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Sylvia		 0.26% -8
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Phyllis		 0.25% +7
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Williamina		 0.24% -2
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Jeanie		 0.24% -13
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Marjory		 0.23% +5
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Annette		 0.22% -2
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Maria		 0.22% +7
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Veronica		 0.22% -3
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Shirley		 0.22% new
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Lorraine		 0.22% +6
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Edith		 0.22% -11
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Angela		 0.21% -11
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Avril		 0.21% +1
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Marlene		 0.21% +6
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Pauline		 0.21% +3
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Audrey		 0.21% new
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Anna		 0.20% -12
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Janis		 0.20% new
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Gillian		 0.20% new
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Theresa		 0.20% +2
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Katherine		 0.19% +2
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Martha		 0.19% -9
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Marjorie		 0.19% -13
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Muriel		 0.19% -16
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Carole		 0.17% -10
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Violet		 0.17% -7
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Popularity extremes for Scotland