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in reply to a message by Rune_Spirit
The question "Is X a real name?" comes up for me rather often when I try to find new names for my own database of given names. Here is the little "trick" that I use to decide this: I take the name in question, combine it with the most popular family names and do searches in Google using "" around the whole expression because I am only interested in pages where X and the family name stand side by side, so that I can assume that there is an actual, real person mentioned.
So, for a check "Is Magenta used in the US as a given name?" I go to Google and search for:
"Magenta Smith"
"Magenta Johnson"
"Magenta Williams"
"Magenta Jones"
and so on.
When I did this just before posting for every such search a few dozen hits turned up which I would interpret as: Yes, Magenta is used as a given name in the US, but very rarely - with a common name there would be at least hundreds of hits.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
So, for a check "Is Magenta used in the US as a given name?" I go to Google and search for:
"Magenta Smith"
"Magenta Johnson"
"Magenta Williams"
"Magenta Jones"
and so on.
When I did this just before posting for every such search a few dozen hits turned up which I would interpret as: Yes, Magenta is used as a given name in the US, but very rarely - with a common name there would be at least hundreds of hits.
Rene www.AboutNames.ch
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