Popular Names in Ireland

Information from the Central Statistics Office Ireland
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Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Eamon		 63 0
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Finbarr		 63 -1
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Gareth		 65 -4
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Gordon		 68 -3
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Eric		 70 -6
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Glenn		 73 new
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Charles		 74 -4
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Oliver		 78 +7
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Wayne		 78 +5
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Cormac		 79 -7
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Rory		 79 -5
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Eugene		 81 -15
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Fergus		 82 -11
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George		 84 +1
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Nicholas		 84 +2
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Cornelius		 85 -16
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Gregory		 86 +10
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Laurence		 87 -8
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Hugh		 88 +1
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Justin		 88 +8
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Simon		 88 -7
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Terence		 90 -3
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Desmond		 91 +3
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Jeremiah		 92 +14
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Owen		 92 -4
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Garrett		 93 -4
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Nigel		 94 +19
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Neil		 98 +6
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Eamonn		 100 +8
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Matthew		 102 +6
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Enda		 106 -3
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Cathal		 108 +1
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Maurice		 111 0
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Karl		 112 -1
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Padraig		 116 +20
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Bernard		 118 -6
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Gavin		 134 -9
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Seamus		 134 -3
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Graham		 138 +1
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Eoin		 149 +2
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Vincent		 151 +5
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Damian		 154 -2
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Fergal		 168 +2
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Ciaran		 180 -12
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Liam		 182 0
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Gary		 187 +5
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Timothy		 188 -2
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Trevor		 189 +1
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Colin		 193 -2
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Jonathan		 193 +7
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Conor		 199 -3
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Ronan		 203 0
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Donal		 214 +5
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Dermot		 217 +1
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Adrian		 219 -3
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Colm		 228 -1
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Denis		 238 -2
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Ian		 239 +2
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Philip		 242 -2
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Francis		 245 -6
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Damien		 250 +9
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Aidan		 258 +2
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Christopher		 268 +2
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Daniel		 268 -4
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Andrew		 274 +2
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Kieran		 277 -1
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Noel		 284 -11
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Barry		 287 +5
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Raymond		 287 +4
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Darren		 309 +1
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Sean		 327 -1
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Richard		 333 -3
28.
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Derek		 335 -1
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Brendan		 343 -5
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Kenneth		 346 +5
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Edward		 347 +4
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Niall		 350 +4
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Shane		 369 +2
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Gerard		 421 -6
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Declan		 434 -7
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Peter		 437 -2
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Keith		 440 +5
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Jason		 442 +3
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Robert		 450 +2
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Joseph		 462 +4
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Kevin		 523 +2
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Anthony		 547 +1
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Martin		 579 -3
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Stephen		 606 0
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William		 637 +2
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Alan		 656 0
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Brian		 688 0
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Thomas		 884 -1
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Mark		 979 +1
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James		 1,059 0
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Paul		 1,139 0
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David		 1,263 0
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Patrick		 1,443 0
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Michael		 1,536 0
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John		 2,330 0
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Andrea		 87 new
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Brigid		 87 -7
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Pamela		 87 -4
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Samantha		 87 new
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Lorna		 89 -9
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Frances		 90 -7
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Rose		 90 new
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Christine		 91 +6
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Natasha		 91 new
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Regina		 91 new
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Brenda		 92 +2
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Annette		 93 -7
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Sonya		 93 -10
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Anita		 95 -7
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Irene		 98 new
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Roisin		 98 +5
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Catriona		 99 +1
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Clodagh		 99 0
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Joan		 107 -8
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Jean		 108 +16
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Ellen		 111 -4
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Julie		 111 +15
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Noreen		 115 +4
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Laura		 117 -2
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Josephine		 119 -13
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Pauline		 120 -5
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Christina		 121 +1
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Nora		 121 -5
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Tracy		 121 +5
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Olivia		 130 +15
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Sheila		 131 -7
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Jane		 132 +3
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Mairead		 133 +10
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Colette		 134 +5
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Tracey		 134 -6
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Shirley		 140 +2
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Alison		 141 +6
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Grainne		 141 -5
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Anna		 142 +1
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Barbara		 142 +4
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Emer		 145 -3
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Tara		 151 -11
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Valerie		 157 +3
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Clare		 161 -1
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Aoife		 162 +9
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Teresa		 164 -18
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Angela		 166 -3
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Carmel		 168 -10
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Audrey		 170 -7
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Aisling		 171 -8
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Edel		 171 0
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Joanne		 173 +10
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Paula		 176 +4
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Carol		 178 +5
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Ruth		 179 +8
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Ciara		 185 +9
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Rachel		 186 +3
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Eileen		 187 +1
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Kathleen		 195 -1
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Suzanne		 209 +5
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Bernadette		 210 -3
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Emma		 220 +9
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Deborah		 222 +2
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Claire		 225 0
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Orla		 226 0
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Denise		 241 -2
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Gillian		 241 -5
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Maria		 244 -5
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Yvonne		 245 -6
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Jacqueline		 249 +3
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Geraldine		 250 0
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Amanda		 258 +6
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Marie		 260 -1
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Bridget		 267 -4
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Helen		 278 -1
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Nicola		 293 +8
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Siobhan		 301 -5
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Lorraine		 311 -3
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Martina		 315 -9
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Sarah		 319 +10
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Sandra		 350 -5
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Niamh		 355 +5
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Jennifer		 366 -1
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Louise		 376 +4
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Susan		 383 +6
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Lisa		 402 +3
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Linda		 406 -3
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Patricia		 408 +3
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Elaine		 427 +2
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Anne		 450 -4
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Karen		 461 +2
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Fiona		 464 -5
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Ann		 465 +2
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Elizabeth		 488 -1
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Deirdre		 495 -1
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Sharon		 518 +4
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Michelle		 533 +4
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Sinead		 569 -1
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Caroline		 581 +1
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Margaret		 605 0
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Catherine		 751 0
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Mary		 1,375 0
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Popularity extremes for Ireland