Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
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Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Aubrey		 17 new
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Desmond		 17 new
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Dudley		 17 new
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Lindsay		 17 new
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Martin		 17 -6
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Russell		 17 -6
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Gerald		 18 -4
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Vernon		 18 new
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Stuart		 19 new
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Bruce		 21 -17
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Edmund		 22 new
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Percival		 22 +4
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Vincent		 22 -17
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Matthew		 23 +7
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Howard		 24 -12
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Allen		 27 -15
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Lewis		 27 +10
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Lionel		 27 +2
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Louis		 27 +14
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Michael		 28 -3
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Basil		 29 new
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Edgar		 31 -8
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Malcolm		 32 +7
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Peter		 32 -6
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Arnold		 33 -12
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Gilbert		 33 -8
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Daniel		 34 +12
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Owen		 35 +4
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Sidney		 35 -7
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Leo		 36 -13
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Philip		 36 +8
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Horace		 37 +10
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Ralph		 37 -10
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Laurence		 41 +16
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Trevor		 41 +1
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Mervyn		 43 +14
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Wilfred		 43 -5
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Claude		 44 0
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Hugh		 45 -13
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Noel		 49 +5
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Archibald		 54 +7
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Bernard		 55 +6
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Hector		 55 -1
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Lawrence		 55 +3
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Victor		 55 -11
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Edwin		 57 +4
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Ian		 58 -11
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Geoffrey		 59 +24
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Sydney		 59 -12
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Samuel		 60 +1
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Percy		 62 +1
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Alan		 65 +2
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Patrick		 65 +6
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Clifford		 66 0
47.
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Andrew		 67 +1
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Maurice		 69 +8
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Keith		 74 0
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Clarence		 76 -1
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Ivan		 76 +14
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Cecil		 77 -6
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Roy		 79 -2
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Harry		 87 +3
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Colin		 90 +8
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Donald		 90 +2
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Reginald		 93 -4
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Douglas		 100 0
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Allan		 106 0
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Leonard		 114 -7
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Joseph		 118 -4
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Raymond		 119 0
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Alexander		 123 -13
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Cyril		 126 +5
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Jack		 126 +9
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Frank		 136 +4
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Kenneth		 136 -1
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Richard		 141 +2
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David		 142 0
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Stanley		 142 +6
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Herbert		 147 +2
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Gordon		 153 -2
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Harold		 161 -5
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Norman		 163 +2
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Ronald		 165 +2
17.
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Ernest		 177 0
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Walter		 177 +2
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Leslie		 182 -5
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Alfred		 189 -2
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Francis		 196 +9
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Henry		 199 +2
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Eric		 224 +2
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Edward		 225 +1
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Frederick		 232 -1
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Albert		 241 +1
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Arthur		 304 -1
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Charles		 334 +1
6.
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Thomas		 347 0
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Robert		 370 0
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George		 498 0
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James		 506 0
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William		 879 -1
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John		 928 +1
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Barbara		 28 -10
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Patricia		 28 new
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Stella		 28 new
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Esther		 29 -3
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Una		 29 -8
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Ella		 30 -8
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Ena		 30 +3
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Louisa		 30 -6
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Minnie		 30 +3
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Emma		 31 -3
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Linda		 31 +6
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Sylvia		 31 -12
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Mildred		 32 -15
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Clarice		 33 +9
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Flora		 33 +2
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Doreen		 34 -7
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Bertha		 35 -4
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Myra		 35 -2
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Christina		 36 -21
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Daisy		 36 +5
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Daphne		 36 -18
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Jane		 36 0
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Marie		 37 new
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Sarah		 37 +5
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Amy		 38 -23
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Clara		 38 -2
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Eunice		 38 new
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Norma		 38 new
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Beryl		 42 +2
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Lily		 42 -8
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Ida		 43 -15
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Freda		 44 +4
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Isabel		 45 -9
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Lillian		 45 -4
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Audrey		 46 new
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Janet		 47 +4
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Rose		 47 -12
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Marjory		 49 +3
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Gertrude		 50 +5
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Rona		 50 +21
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Lorna		 51 +1
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Isabella		 52 -11
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Marion		 54 0
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Ruth		 55 -1
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Ada		 57 +17
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Alma		 57 0
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Emily		 57 -3
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Lucy		 57 +12
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May		 57 -12
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Nellie		 57 +2
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Constance		 58 -4
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Dulcie		 61 +24
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Lilian		 62 +5
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Beatrice		 64 +10
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Mona		 64 0
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Gwendoline		 66 -2
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Joan		 67 +45
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Joyce		 67 +1
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Hilda		 70 -1
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Nancy		 70 +4
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Frances		 74 -3
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Eva		 78 +1
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Helen		 79 +4
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Mabel		 89 -3
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Iris		 91 +2
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Ruby		 91 -3
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Grace		 94 +2
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Myrtle		 103 -2
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Muriel		 104 +3
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Rita		 104 +1
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Evelyn		 113 -1
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Hazel		 114 -2
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Vera		 114 -1
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Thelma		 118 -4
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Catherine		 120 -11
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Violet		 121 -2
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Winifred		 121 +4
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Agnes		 123 +6
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Ivy		 129 -1
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Marjorie		 130 -1
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Edith		 132 -1
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Elsie		 143 -8
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Irene		 144 0
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Olive		 146 +7
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Ellen		 147 -2
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Ethel		 155 +1
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Jessie		 165 +2
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Jean		 168 +12
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Mavis		 171 -2
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Alice		 181 -6
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Annie		 182 -6
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Phyllis		 187 0
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Elizabeth		 194 +4
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Eileen		 196 -1
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Florence		 200 +7
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Edna		 205 -3
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Doris		 215 +4
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Gladys		 217 +4
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Kathleen		 219 +1
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Dorothy		 249 0
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Margaret		 351 0
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Mary		 533 0
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