Popular Names in Canada (Ontario and BC)

This is a combination of the provincial statistics from Ontario (Government and Consumer Services) and British Columbia (Vital Statistics Agency)
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Joseph		 2,823 +2
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John		 2,735 -1
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William		 2,557 -1
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Robert		 1,734 0
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James		 1,440 0
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Donald		 1,299 +1
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George		 1,193 -1
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Kenneth		 748 +1
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Charles		 658 -1
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Gordon		 655 0
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Thomas		 638 0
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Harold		 546 0
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Edward		 539 0
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Douglas		 468 +1
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Arthur		 466 +2
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Ronald		 451 +6
17.
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Baby		 450 -3
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Albert		 410 +2
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Frederick		 400 0
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Norman		 400 -3
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David		 392 -3
22.
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Raymond		 359 +3
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Gerald		 353 0
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Walter		 339 -3
25.
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Stanley		 333 +1
26.
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Roy		 324 -2
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Harry		 310 +3
28.
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Francis		 294 +1
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Richard		 290 -2
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Jack		 277 -2
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Peter		 265 +7
32.
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Frank		 254 0
33.
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Howard		 252 0
34.
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Ernest		 236 -3
35.
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Henry		 234 -1
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Lloyd		 227 0
37.
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Clifford		 221 -2
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Leonard		 209 -1
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Allan		 196 +10
40.
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Bruce		 193 +3
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Earl		 193 -1
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Alfred		 187 -1
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Alexander		 182 0
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Paul		 181 +3
45.
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Herbert		 177 -5
46.
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Ralph		 173 -3
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Lawrence		 170 0
48.
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Clarence		 167 -6
49.
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Michael		 159 +9
49.
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Wilfred		 159 -3
51.
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Ross		 151 0
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Murray		 145 +1
53.
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Lorne		 139 0
54.
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Victor		 136 +5
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Russell		 134 0
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Leo		 133 +1
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Carl		 131 +2
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J		 131 -7
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Patrick		 129 +4
60.
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Bernard		 127 +3
61.
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Harvey		 122 +7
62.
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Hugh		 119 0
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Louis		 119 -6
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Leslie		 118 +1
65.
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Cecil		 111 -14
66.
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Edwin		 109 +6
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Keith		 107 +9
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Maurice		 105 -1
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Reginald		 102 -4
70.
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Alan		 98 +9
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Andrew		 98 -2
72.
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Samuel		 96 -11
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Allen		 94 0
74.
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Glen		 88 +5
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Jean		 88 -3
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Arnold		 85 -6
77.
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Daniel		 84 0
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Eugene		 79 +5
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Eric		 77 -1
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Elmer		 76 -7
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Ivan		 74 +7
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Philip		 74 +5
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Alvin		 73 -1
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Edgar		 73 +14
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Sidney		 72 +5
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Wallace		 70 -5
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Gilbert		 66 +2
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Melvin		 61 -4
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Vernon		 60 -16
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Fredrick		 58 -3
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Vincent		 55 -6
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Milton		 53 new
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Anthony		 52 new
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Morris		 52 +5
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Percy		 52 +1
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Fred		 51 -5
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Glenn		 50 new
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Nelson		 49 new
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Wilbert		 49 new
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Floyd		 48 -7
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Garnet		 48 new
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Mary		 2,407 0
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Marie		 2,099 0
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Margaret		 1,388 0
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Dorothy		 1,132 0
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Helen		 937 0
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Shirley		 816 +1
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Jean		 687 -1
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Betty		 638 +2
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Ruth		 590 +2
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Marion		 570 +2
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Elizabeth		 533 -3
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Doris		 529 -3
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Audrey		 464 0
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Barbara		 419 +11
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Marjorie		 383 -1
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Norma		 371 0
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Joyce		 370 +11
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Baby		 365 -4
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Florence		 361 -2
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Irene		 358 -1
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Evelyn		 349 -3
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Annie		 346 -1
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Lois		 335 +10
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June		 332 -5
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Kathleen		 320 -2
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Joan		 318 -4
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Patricia		 309 +1
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Lillian		 296 -2
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Frances		 290 +1
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Alice		 283 -6
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Phyllis		 280 +7
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Gladys		 275 -5
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Edith		 267 +1
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Muriel		 253 -3
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Doreen		 249 +2
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Eleanor		 239 +6
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Mildred		 239 -4
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Grace		 224 -3
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Anna		 220 +7
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Edna		 217 -4
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Catherine		 215 -1
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Beatrice		 202 +1
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Bernice		 202 +10
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Ethel		 201 -3
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M		 191 -6
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Thelma		 191 -1
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Eileen		 190 +2
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Elsie		 188 -1
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Vera		 185 +4
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Gloria		 177 +1
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Agnes		 172 -1
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Violet		 167 -7
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Hazel		 164 -5
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Rose		 163 +5
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Gertrude		 161 +5
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Marguerite		 157 +2
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Olive		 154 0
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Rita		 153 -2
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Ruby		 151 -5
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Theresa		 149 +9
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Eva		 148 -7
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Mabel		 138 +4
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Verna		 136 -3
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Pauline		 128 +7
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Hilda		 122 -3
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Laura		 114 -2
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Jessie		 113 -4
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Ellen		 108 -2
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Clara		 107 +4
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Reta		 100 -2
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Viola		 98 +6
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Anne		 97 +15
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Pearl		 97 0
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Geraldine		 96 +6
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Josephine		 95 +1
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Constance		 93 -7
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Velma		 88 +5
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Beverley		 86 new
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Jacqueline		 85 +10
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Myrtle		 85 -14
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Donna		 82 new
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Gwendolyn		 82 new
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Lorna		 82 -8
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Sarah		 82 +2
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Nora		 81 new
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Lorraine		 80 new
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Marjory		 80 +1
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Maria		 79 -9
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Marian		 78 new
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Vivian		 78 +3
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May		 77 +1
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Bertha		 76 +3
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Jane		 76 new
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Teresa		 76 +5
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Olga		 75 -4
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Ida		 74 -12
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Alma		 72 -24
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Isabel		 72 -5
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Leona		 72 -11
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Therese		 72 new
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Popularity extremes for Canada