Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
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Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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Desmond		 20 new
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Laurence		 20 -16
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Lindsay		 20 -8
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Lionel		 20 -2
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Matthew		 20 -11
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Neil		 20 new
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Selwyn		 20 new
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Stephen		 20 new
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Dudley		 21 new
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Athol		 22 new
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Russell		 22 +4
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Vernon		 22 new
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Angus		 23 new
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Percival		 23 -4
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Roland		 23 +7
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Benjamin		 25 new
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Gerald		 25 +6
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Lewis		 25 -12
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Vincent		 25 new
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Neville		 26 new
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Denis		 27 +11
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Daniel		 30 -4
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Sidney		 30 -12
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Basil		 32 +9
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Stuart		 32 +12
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Gilbert		 33 +3
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Claude		 35 -14
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Michael		 36 +1
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Bernard		 37 -22
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Geoffrey		 37 -5
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Arnold		 38 +2
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Edgar		 38 0
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Horace		 38 -4
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Leo		 39 +4
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Owen		 39 +2
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Allen		 41 +15
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Malcolm		 41 +18
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Mervyn		 41 0
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Philip		 42 +9
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Ralph		 42 +4
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Trevor		 43 -2
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Edwin		 44 +3
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Archibald		 48 -1
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Peter		 49 +2
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Wilfred		 50 -1
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Samuel		 51 -3
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Hector		 52 -2
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Percy		 54 -2
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Noel		 55 -5
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Clifford		 56 -8
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Andrew		 57 -5
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Sydney		 60 +5
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Victor		 61 +8
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Ivan		 62 -7
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Keith		 63 -6
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Ian		 67 +16
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Lawrence		 73 0
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Harry		 74 -1
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Hugh		 78 +7
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Patrick		 78 +8
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Alan		 80 -2
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Maurice		 85 -2
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Clarence		 87 +1
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Roy		 92 -2
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Colin		 95 +9
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Cyril		 106 -2
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Cecil		 107 +2
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Reginald		 107 +1
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Herbert		 118 -4
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Douglas		 119 0
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Frank		 122 -1
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Allan		 130 +1
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Donald		 133 +5
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Stanley		 133 -4
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Joseph		 137 +1
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Richard		 138 0
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Leonard		 145 -3
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Walter		 146 -9
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Kenneth		 148 -1
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Alexander		 152 +3
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Raymond		 153 -4
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David		 156 -1
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Jack		 161 +9
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Norman		 161 +2
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Ernest		 162 +1
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Alfred		 166 -3
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Edward		 174 -4
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Harold		 177 +2
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Gordon		 185 +8
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Francis		 186 +2
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Eric		 199 +1
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Albert		 200 -4
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Leslie		 201 0
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Ronald		 219 +1
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Henry		 223 +1
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Frederick		 229 +1
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Arthur		 306 0
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Charles		 307 0
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Thomas		 357 0
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Robert		 380 0
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George		 429 -1
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James		 570 +1
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William		 847 0
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John		 949 0
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Daisy		 30 -23
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Ella		 30 -7
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Daphne		 31 -24
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Esther		 31 -10
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Bessie		 32 new
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Marie		 33 -34
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Mildred		 33 +5
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Eunice		 34 -18
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Jane		 34 +6
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Nora		 34 +10
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Olga		 34 new
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Barbara		 36 0
87.
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Bertha		 36 new
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Sarah		 36 -12
85.
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Eleanor		 37 +2
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Laura		 37 -4
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Lily		 38 new
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Norma		 38 new
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Clara		 39 0
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Rose		 39 new
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Monica		 40 new
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Gertrude		 41 +1
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Sylvia		 41 -9
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Lillian		 42 +4
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Ida		 43 -15
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Amy		 44 -7
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Betty		 44 +23
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Christina		 44 -8
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Beryl		 45 +9
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Freda		 46 -10
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Dulcie		 47 -2
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Isabel		 47 -6
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Patricia		 48 new
65.
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Audrey		 50 +14
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Isabella		 50 -14
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Janet		 50 +9
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Marjory		 51 +12
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Beatrice		 53 -6
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Mona		 53 -5
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Rona		 53 +20
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May		 55 -14
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Nellie		 55 +10
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Ada		 57 0
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Emily		 58 -6
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Myra		 58 +2
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Doreen		 61 +3
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Lilian		 61 +1
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Marion		 61 +16
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Lucy		 62 +15
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Ruth		 64 -3
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Constance		 65 +3
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Gwendoline		 67 0
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Iris		 70 -6
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Lorna		 74 +17
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Alma		 77 +6
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Ruby		 79 -3
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Eva		 85 +2
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Evelyn		 91 -13
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Helen		 93 -7
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Hilda		 95 +6
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Rita		 96 -3
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Myrtle		 98 -12
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Frances		 99 +2
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Mabel		 100 -1
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Grace		 102 +8
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Vera		 103 -1
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Violet		 111 -8
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Catherine		 113 -1
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Joan		 116 +7
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Nancy		 116 +8
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Ellen		 119 -8
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Muriel		 120 +12
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Irene		 121 0
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Joyce		 123 +6
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Hazel		 127 +4
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Winifred		 130 -7
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Olive		 131 -4
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Agnes		 132 +5
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Ivy		 137 +4
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Marjorie		 137 -4
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Ethel		 146 -1
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Florence		 147 -3
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Jessie		 147 +3
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Thelma		 151 +7
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Edith		 153 +6
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Elsie		 172 +1
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Elizabeth		 178 -2
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Annie		 184 -6
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Alice		 195 0
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Gladys		 201 -3
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Doris		 203 0
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Edna		 212 -1
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Jean		 213 +7
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Mavis		 213 +3
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Eileen		 231 -1
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Phyllis		 248 -1
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Kathleen		 252 +2
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Dorothy		 298 0
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Margaret		 429 0
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Mary		 598 0
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Popularity extremes for New Zealand