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in reply to a message by Rachel Shaina
Cool! Thank you!
Surprised that Marie is at #1. I thought it had gone a bit out of fashion.
I expected Rose to be #1 or possibly Grace.
In general I expected some more "modern" middle names. Hope, Faith, Belle, Paige, May etc. to be higher up than the middle names that were popular in the 60s, 70s, 80s, early 90s such as Ann, Anne, Lynn, Lee.
I also expected Christopher to place in the top 10 and Alexander to be at #2. I know so many children with these two middle names.
Surprised that Marie is at #1. I thought it had gone a bit out of fashion.
I expected Rose to be #1 or possibly Grace.
In general I expected some more "modern" middle names. Hope, Faith, Belle, Paige, May etc. to be higher up than the middle names that were popular in the 60s, 70s, 80s, early 90s such as Ann, Anne, Lynn, Lee.
I also expected Christopher to place in the top 10 and Alexander to be at #2. I know so many children with these two middle names.
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I've done this chart in a more informal way in more recent years (using whatever public birth announcements I could find, but that's getting harder to do) and I think if I could do it for 2020 or later, Grace or Rose would possibly outrank Michael, but I don't see Marie and Ann (possibly Lynn too) going anywhere-- a LOT of people are very into the "it's MY middle name and my MOM's middle name and my GRANDMA's middle name!" so even though it was probably filler when Grandma got the name, it's ~important~ now.
I do think James could possibly overtake Marie on a combined gender chart like this-- people are using it for girls and I really think it's overlooked how much of a filler name it is. I have data from Vermont and Nebraska in 2019 and James is the #1 name for both of them. I have Ohio too (the biggest state here) but my computer hates to open it so I haven't counted that yet.
I do think James could possibly overtake Marie on a combined gender chart like this-- people are using it for girls and I really think it's overlooked how much of a filler name it is. I have data from Vermont and Nebraska in 2019 and James is the #1 name for both of them. I have Ohio too (the biggest state here) but my computer hates to open it so I haven't counted that yet.
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