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1. Sylvie
2. Florence
3. Camille
4. June
5. Avielle
6. Imogen
7. Élodie
8. Thaïs
9. Emeline
10. Xanthe

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1. August
2. Oskar
3. Vincent
4. Rafael
5. Émile
6. Mathis
7. Laurits
8. Errol
9. Moritz
10. Niven

Girls:
Anouk / Anoushka
Saoirse
Cora
Nora
Alma
Willa
Ashley / Ash
Amaris
Theodora
Matisse

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Boys:
Connor
Milo
Theodore
Brennan
Asher / Ash
Murphy
Thane
Roan
Wynne
Aster

Alix
Arantxa
Ayten
Belinay
Elif
Esra
Gal
Godelieve
Ori
Sonisay

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Augustin
Julian
Kaspar
Nikolai
Sebastian
Serafin
Tassilo
Vicco
Wendelin
Zakkai

Girls
1. Euphemia
2. Anastasia
3. Inés
4. Eleanor
5. Marguerite
6. Viola
7. Ariana
8. Auden
9. Evandra
10. Seraphine

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Boys
1. Wolfram
2. Alphonse
3. Régis
4. Edmund
5. Ulrich
6. Bastian
7. Artemisius
8. Cecil
9. Lucius
10. Yuzuru

Still deciding on combos for Caspian and Lysander, so just putting my favourites as of right now.

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Pandora Beatrix Clio
Artemis Georgina Ann
Evanthe Marigold Cherry
Morgana Lyra Tempest
Valkyrie Ziva Ingrid
Calista Athena Autumn
Athena Lydia Tempest
Lyra Calista Autumn
Clio Hermione Sybil
Beatrix Lavender Margot

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Caspian Arthur Locke
Lysander Phoenix Sage
Ptolemy William Ambrose
Phoenix Arthur Blaise
Horatio Atticus Peter
Nikolai Isidore Emrys
Taavi Nikolai Altair
Indigo Edmund Taavi
August Lysander Wolf
Lorenzo Felix Amadeus

Athena
Eleanora
Cordelia
Astrid
Freya
Zoe
Lucy
Antonia
Minerva
Josephine

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Andrew
Nikolai
Rune
Alexander
Leo
Asher
Sebastian
Roman
Hades
Morgan

Xenia
Marina
Theodora
Ursula
Catarina
Alicia
Carolina
Irina
Calixta
Lena

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Isaac
Frédéric
Tristan
Damian
François
Jérémie
Silas
Leo
Adrien
Édouard

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Constance
Eulalia
Euphrosyne
Fiammetta
Ianthe
Leontine
Melpomene
Perpetua
Romola
Tacita

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Anatole
Anselm
Arkady
Aubert
Clement
Éleuthère
Hubert
Sufyan
Vivian
Waldo

Lily
Viola
Violetta
Adelina
Rosalie
Juliet
Magdalena
Kaia
Veronica
Fiona

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Roman
Alexander
Dmitry
Elliot
Adam
Patrick
Jonathan
William
Pavel
Victor

Ginevra
Alexis
Juliette
Angeline
Georgina
Roxana
Primrose
Winifred
Marguerite

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Joseph
Alexander
Angelus
Cecil
Henri
Ivan
Jesse
Silas
Victor
Wallace

Cordelia
Araceli
Anneliese
Eleanor
Calanthe
Seraphina
Roxanne
Sigrid
Rosalina
Vanessa

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Alexander
Adrian
Emiliano
Constantine
Lorenzo
Julian
Laurent
François
Dylan
Valerian

Is there a reason April is particularly cruel? Or is this just a reference to April Fools Day?

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Regardless... for this month, I completely overhauled the way I do my Top 10 names. See, in my PNL I have a separate tab called "Love but Can't Use," which are names that - for various reasons - I can't use as a first name in real life.

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Whenever I've crafted a Top 10 list in the past, I've done it basically by dividing a full list into brackets and doing eliminations based on that. While anyone who found my notebook of this would likely deem it a waste of time, it's a ritual that I've found soothing for many years at this point. But... I've always left that "Love but Can't Use" list out of the competition altogether.

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Thinking about it at some point in March, I decided this wasn't really fair. It meant that my actual Top 10 names that I'd always reported in these threads, whose statistics are compiled (by someone... I think...), were potentially inaccurate. So, this time, I included those names; and a perhaps not-so-surprising number of them found their way into the top (these are the names I want submitted for the BtN 2024 statistics):

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Caleb
Derek
Devon
Dominic
Donovan
Finn
Malcolm
Nicholas
Tobias
Wesley
&
Arielle
Cassandra
Daria
Elaine
Elena
Margot
Miriam
Naomi
Sabrina
Tamsin

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While I eventually decided that Arielle & Elaine could be used after all... Derek, Devon, Cassandra, Elena, Margot, and Naomi are still unusable for me. For the purposes of combos, I decided to use the Margaux spelling instead, and replaced the other 5 with names that had just missed the Top 10: Asa, Adrian, Philomena, Arlette, and Anastasia.

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Nicholas Wolfgang
Wesley Owen Rhys
Finn Gabriel
Donovan Leo
Malcolm Elliott
Tobias William
Caleb Isaac James
Dominic Edmund
Asa Raphael
Adrian Richard
&
Sabrina Giselle
Arielle Ruby
Margaux Juliet
Elaine Genevieve
Miriam Alice
Daria Josephine
Tamsin Rebecca
Philomena Rose
Arlette Miranda
Anastasia Lily

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In terms of the transition from last month to this: Tobias (formerly a middle), Derek, Devon, Arielle, Margot, Elena, Elaine, Cassandra, Daria, and Naomi replaced Richard (now a middle), Asa (Top 20 allowed for combos), Jasper, Guinevere, Margaux (spelling allowed for combos), Edith, Alice (now a middle), Josephine (ditto), Hazel, Hailey, and Ursula.

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April is not the cruelest month; it’s my birth month. :(

Boys:
Austin
Tristan
Andrew
Jason
Matthew
Jesse
Jeffrey
Dylan
Evan
Jeremy

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Girls:
Nicole
Caitlin
Megan
Jacqueline
Jasmine
Jennifer
Amy
Monica
Patricia
Chelsea

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Unisex (Since this is based on BtN's gender, so some names are closer to masculine/feminine rather than unisex)
Shannon
Ashley
Courtney
Cassidy
Jocelyn
Shelby
Casey
Lauren
Jade
Blake

Alistair
Bram
Cyrus
Dragomir
Emrys
Faisal
Horatio
Lysander
Maximilian
Taliesin

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Aurelia
Corisande
Fenella
Helianthe
Ianthe
Ksenia
Loveday
Miranda
Rosalie
Saskia

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Top 10 Names For Boys:
Evander
Marvin
Bradley
Zachary
Paul
Tristan
Vincent
Alfred
Gregory
Curtis

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My Top 10 Names For Girls:
Tiffany
Agatha
Gwenda
Vanessa
Pamela
Beatrice
Lynette
Kayla
Natalie
Roxanne

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Thank you for creating this again and for the thoughts of good fortune! I hope that you also have a wonderful April; may it be the nicest April you've ever experienced!!