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		 10.52% 0
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James		 8.74% 0
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William		 6.77% 0
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David		 5.59% 0
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Robert		 5.56% 0
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Thomas		 3.60% 0
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Alexander		 3.00% 0
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George		 2.79% 0
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Ian		 2.59% 0
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Brian		 2.10% 0
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Andrew		 2.08% 0
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Michael		 1.99% 0
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Gordon		 1.91% 0
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Alan		 1.91% 0
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Peter		 1.77% 0
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Charles		 1.46% 0
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Kenneth		 1.30% 0
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Ronald		 1.29% 0
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Douglas		 1.23% +1
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Colin		 1.08% -1
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Donald		 1.02% +1
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Joseph		 1.02% -1
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Richard		 0.95% +1
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Allan		 0.92% +1
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Hugh		 0.91% +1
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Derek		 0.90% +4
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Edward		 0.88% -4
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Francis		 0.74% -1
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Neil		 0.70% +3
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Graham		 0.69% +4
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Patrick		 0.67% -3
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Daniel		 0.62% +5
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Raymond		 0.59% -2
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Alistair		 0.59% +2
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Iain		 0.58% -2
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Stuart		 0.57% +4
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Norman		 0.56% -8
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Stephen		 0.53% 0
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Martin		 0.51% +9
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Duncan		 0.51% -1
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Henry		 0.50% -6
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Philip		 0.47% +4
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Malcolm		 0.45% 0
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Eric		 0.44% +5
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Paul		 0.44% -1
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Stewart		 0.41% -5
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Leslie		 0.40% +9
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Archibald		 0.39% -6
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Alastair		 0.39% +1
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Anthony		 0.38% -5
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Angus		 0.38% 0
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Samuel		 0.37% 0
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Christopher		 0.37% 0
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Arthur		 0.35% +3
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Gerald		 0.31% -8
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Gerard		 0.30% -2
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Graeme		 0.29% +6
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Roderick		 0.28% 0
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Walter		 0.28% -3
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Keith		 0.25% +2
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Matthew		 0.25% -2
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Dennis		 0.24% -1
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Frank		 0.23% -3
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Terence		 0.22% +3
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Bernard		 0.22% 0
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Frederick		 0.21% -2
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Albert		 0.20% +2
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Gavin		 0.20% +5
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Bruce		 0.19% -3
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Stanley		 0.19% +3
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Roy		 0.18% -3
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Lawrence		 0.17% -3
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Harry		 0.16% +1
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Kevin		 0.16% +7
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Adam		 0.15% +1
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Jack		 0.15% +1
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Steven		 0.14% +5
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Robin		 0.13% -4
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Denis		 0.12% -8
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Alfred		 0.12% -3
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Gary		 0.12% +9
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Lindsay		 0.10% new
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Russell		 0.10% new
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Alasdair		 0.09% -5
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Scott		 0.09% new
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Gilbert		 0.09% 0
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Leonard		 0.09% -3
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Campbell		 0.09% new
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Bryan		 0.08% -10
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Geoffrey		 0.08% +5
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Ernest		 0.08% -7
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Hamish		 0.08% -6
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Nigel		 0.08% new
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Desmond		 0.08% -4
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Ewan		 0.08% new
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Mark		 0.08% 0
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Ross		 0.08% +6
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Cameron		 0.08% new
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Nicholas		 0.08% 0
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Ralph		 0.08% new
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Roger		 0.08% new
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Margaret		 7.26% 0
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Elizabeth		 6.03% 0
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Mary		 4.60% 0
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Linda		 3.28% 0
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Anne		 3.09% 0
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Catherine		 2.91% 0
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Helen		 2.29% 0
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Patricia		 2.05% 0
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Ann		 1.94% 0
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Jean		 1.58% +1
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Christine		 1.57% +5
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Agnes		 1.54% 0
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Irene		 1.47% -3
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Maureen		 1.47% 0
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Janet		 1.41% 0
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Kathleen		 1.28% -2
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Jane		 1.26% +1
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Sandra		 1.22% -1
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Susan		 1.15% +1
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Carol		 1.04% -1
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Marion		 1.04% +1
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Sheila		 0.95% -1
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Joan		 0.87% +1
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Moira		 0.86% -1
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Barbara		 0.83% +7
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June		 0.82% +3
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Alison		 0.82% +3
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Isabella		 0.81% -3
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Dorothy		 0.80% -2
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Elaine		 0.78% +6
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Marilyn		 0.77% +12
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Christina		 0.74% +2
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Eileen		 0.73% -5
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Frances		 0.72% -8
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Joyce		 0.71% -2
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Janice		 0.68% +5
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Annie		 0.67% -7
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Jacqueline		 0.65% +12
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Fiona		 0.65% +9
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Jennifer		 0.62% -3
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Evelyn		 0.60% -6
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Rosemary		 0.59% +2
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Sarah		 0.57% -5
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Lesley		 0.56% +17
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Caroline		 0.54% 0
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Valerie		 0.53% -5
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Heather		 0.51% +4
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Isobel		 0.51% -7
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Morag		 0.51% -9
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Lorna		 0.50% -4
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Eleanor		 0.48% +1
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Brenda		 0.47% -3
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Janette		 0.43% -6
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Ellen		 0.42% 0
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Alice		 0.41% +1
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Grace		 0.40% +9
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Yvonne		 0.39% +11
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Pamela		 0.39% +3
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Doreen		 0.37% -2
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Sheena		 0.37% -6
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Jessie		 0.36% -6
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Wilma		 0.36% +12
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Marie		 0.36% -5
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Aileen		 0.35% 0
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Lorraine		 0.35% +13
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Norma		 0.35% -8
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Isabel		 0.34% +13
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Alexandra		 0.34% -2
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Rose		 0.33% -9
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Hazel		 0.31% -7
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Jeanette		 0.31% -4
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Angela		 0.30% +3
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Ruth		 0.28% -4
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Diane		 0.27% +9
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Audrey		 0.26% +6
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Pauline		 0.26% +7
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Josephine		 0.25% -4
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Sylvia		 0.25% +8
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Lynda		 0.24% -8
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Annette		 0.23% -1
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Janis		 0.23% -5
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Georgina		 0.22% -12
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Gillian		 0.22% +13
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Maria		 0.22% -6
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Theresa		 0.22% +6
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Carole		 0.21% 0
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Phyllis		 0.21% +10
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Williamina		 0.21% -3
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Marlene		 0.20% +3
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Shirley		 0.20% +2
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Teresa		 0.20% +5
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Edith		 0.20% -6
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Avril		 0.20% 0
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Lynn		 0.19% new
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Anna		 0.19% -23
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Veronica		 0.18% +3
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Laura		 0.18% new
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Martha		 0.18% -10
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Jeanie		 0.18% -10
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May		 0.17% new
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Popularity extremes for Scotland