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		 10.38% 0
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James		 9.17% 0
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William		 6.91% 0
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Robert		 5.79% 0
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David		 5.29% 0
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Thomas		 3.60% 0
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Alexander		 3.23% 0
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George		 3.05% 0
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Ian		 2.74% 0
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Andrew		 2.03% +1
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Brian		 1.96% -1
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Michael		 1.91% 0
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Alan		 1.91% 0
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Peter		 1.87% 0
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Gordon		 1.82% +2
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Charles		 1.53% -1
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Ronald		 1.49% -1
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Kenneth		 1.37% 0
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Douglas		 1.22% +2
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Joseph		 1.08% -1
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Donald		 1.06% -1
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Allan		 0.99% +3
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Hugh		 0.99% 0
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Edward		 0.97% -2
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Colin		 0.96% -1
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Richard		 0.85% 0
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Francis		 0.83% 0
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Patrick		 0.69% 0
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Alistair		 0.64% +3
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Derek		 0.64% 0
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Raymond		 0.63% -2
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Norman		 0.62% +2
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Daniel		 0.60% 0
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Graham		 0.59% +3
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Iain		 0.59% +1
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Neil		 0.58% -1
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Henry		 0.57% -6
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Duncan		 0.50% 0
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Stewart		 0.49% 0
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Stephen		 0.47% +4
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Archibald		 0.47% -1
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Stuart		 0.46% 0
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Malcolm		 0.41% 0
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Paul		 0.40% +17
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Eric		 0.39% -4
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Alastair		 0.38% +3
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Samuel		 0.37% -1
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Arthur		 0.36% +4
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Martin		 0.36% +8
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Philip		 0.36% -3
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Leslie		 0.34% +3
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Anthony		 0.34% -7
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Dennis		 0.32% -3
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Angus		 0.32% -7
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Christopher		 0.32% -1
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Walter		 0.31% -5
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Gerald		 0.31% -1
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Frank		 0.27% -1
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Frederick		 0.26% +1
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Roderick		 0.26% -5
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Matthew		 0.25% -2
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Terence		 0.25% +2
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Gerard		 0.24% +5
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Graeme		 0.24% +9
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Denis		 0.23% +2
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Bernard		 0.21% -3
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Bruce		 0.21% -2
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Keith		 0.20% -6
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Lawrence		 0.20% +8
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Albert		 0.18% -4
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Roy		 0.18% +4
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Stanley		 0.18% +1
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Harry		 0.17% -4
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Alfred		 0.14% +4
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Gavin		 0.14% 0
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Adam		 0.13% -7
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Robin		 0.12% 0
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Jack		 0.12% -6
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Leonard		 0.11% +1
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Ernest		 0.10% -2
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Kevin		 0.10% +12
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Steven		 0.10% new
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Desmond		 0.09% +12
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Gilbert		 0.09% -2
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Harold		 0.09% +9
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Victor		 0.09% +6
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Vincent		 0.09% new
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Bryan		 0.09% -2
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Alasdair		 0.09% -4
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Alister		 0.08% +5
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Mark		 0.08% new
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Lindsay		 0.08% new
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Maurice		 0.08% -10
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Owen		 0.08% +6
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Campbell		 0.08% new
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Geoffrey		 0.08% -5
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Craig		 0.08% new
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Fraser		 0.08% -15
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Hamish		 0.08% -11
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Roger		 0.07% -1
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Margaret		 7.65% 0
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Elizabeth		 5.37% 0
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Mary		 4.92% 0
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Anne		 3.22% +1
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Catherine		 3.02% -1
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Linda		 2.98% 0
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Helen		 2.45% 0
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Patricia		 2.41% 0
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Irene		 2.27% 0
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Ann		 1.83% +3
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Agnes		 1.78% -1
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Jean		 1.77% 0
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Kathleen		 1.58% -2
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Maureen		 1.50% 0
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Janet		 1.42% 0
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Christine		 1.35% +2
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Sandra		 1.28% -1
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Marion		 1.10% +1
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Sheila		 1.09% -2
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Jane		 1.07% 0
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Isabella		 1.01% +1
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Moira		 0.95% -1
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Joan		 0.91% 0
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Annie		 0.88% +3
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Carol		 0.88% +3
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Barbara		 0.84% +4
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Frances		 0.83% -2
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Susan		 0.82% +4
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Christina		 0.81% -3
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Dorothy		 0.78% +1
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Alison		 0.77% +10
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June		 0.77% -7
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Eileen		 0.75% 0
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Evelyn		 0.68% +2
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Isobel		 0.67% +5
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Jennifer		 0.67% -7
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Joyce		 0.67% -2
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Sarah		 0.59% -4
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Janice		 0.57% -1
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Jacqueline		 0.52% +3
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Fiona		 0.52% +5
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Rosemary		 0.52% -5
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Janette		 0.50% -4
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Morag		 0.49% +1
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Heather		 0.46% +5
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Caroline		 0.46% +7
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Jessie		 0.46% -4
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Marilyn		 0.46% 0
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Marie		 0.44% +18
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Brenda		 0.43% -3
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Eleanor		 0.42% -7
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Valerie		 0.41% 0
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Alice		 0.41% -4
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Doreen		 0.41% +8
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Norma		 0.41% -5
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Elaine		 0.40% +4
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Sheena		 0.40% +6
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Lesley		 0.39% +10
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Lorna		 0.39% -2
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Pamela		 0.36% -5
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Jeanette		 0.36% -2
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Ellen		 0.36% -9
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Rose		 0.35% 0
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Hazel		 0.35% 0
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Yvonne		 0.34% +4
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Grace		 0.34% -8
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Georgina		 0.32% -3
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Aileen		 0.32% +4
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Alexandra		 0.32% -13
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Josephine		 0.31% +3
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Wilma		 0.31% -7
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Ruth		 0.29% +2
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Maria		 0.25% +7
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Annette		 0.25% +6
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Pauline		 0.24% +12
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Shirley		 0.24% +7
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Marlene		 0.23% +10
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Martha		 0.23% +17
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Muriel		 0.23% +18
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Edith		 0.23% +5
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Sylvia		 0.23% -5
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Williamina		 0.23% -3
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Angela		 0.22% +3
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Jeanie		 0.22% -6
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Lynda		 0.22% -15
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Isabel		 0.21% -17
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Marjory		 0.21% -7
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May		 0.21% new
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Anna		 0.20% +2
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Audrey		 0.20% 0
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Janis		 0.20% +1
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Phyllis		 0.19% -16
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Veronica		 0.19% -13
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Avril		 0.19% -7
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Gillian		 0.19% -1
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Lorraine		 0.19% -10
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Theresa		 0.19% -1
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Carole		 0.18% +1
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Katherine		 0.18% -3
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Marjorie		 0.18% -3
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Violet		 0.18% -1
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Popularity extremes for Scotland