Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
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Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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John		 1,057 0
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William		 890 0
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James		 586 0
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George		 470 0
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Robert		 417 0
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Thomas		 364 0
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Charles		 344 0
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Arthur		 312 0
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Leslie		 248 +3
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Frederick		 228 -1
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Henry		 228 0
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Albert		 224 +1
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Ronald		 217 -2
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Francis		 211 +1
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Eric		 205 -1
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Edward		 192 +2
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Harold		 180 0
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David		 178 +5
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Leonard		 171 +9
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Gordon		 170 -4
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Raymond		 170 +4
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Walter		 169 +5
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Alfred		 166 -4
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Norman		 160 -3
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Kenneth		 158 +1
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Stanley		 158 +6
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Ernest		 155 -7
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Jack		 152 -7
29.
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Richard		 136 0
30.
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Joseph		 134 0
31.
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Allan		 129 +2
32.
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Alexander		 127 -7
33.
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Herbert		 125 +3
34.
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Frank		 123 0
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Douglas		 112 0
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Reginald		 111 +1
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Alan		 108 +7
38.
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Cyril		 107 +1
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Roy		 105 +2
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Colin		 101 0
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Donald		 99 -10
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Maurice		 98 +1
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Cecil		 86 -6
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Patrick		 84 +1
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Keith		 83 +5
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Hugh		 82 -1
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Ian		 79 +2
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Harry		 74 -1
49.
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Percy		 72 +8
49.
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Victor		 72 +3
51.
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Clifford		 69 +4
52.
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Andrew		 66 +2
53.
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Clarence		 65 -11
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Lawrence		 64 -6
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Noel		 63 +1
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Peter		 63 +6
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Bernard		 61 +18
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Wilfred		 61 +3
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Ivan		 58 -8
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Sydney		 57 -7
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Philip		 48 +4
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Trevor		 48 +3
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Mervyn		 47 +4
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Samuel		 47 -4
65.
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Laurence		 46 +32
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Ralph		 45 -1
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Claude		 43 +11
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Bruce		 42 new
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Edgar		 42 +4
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Edwin		 42 -5
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Allen		 41 -4
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Archibald		 41 -9
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Geoffrey		 41 +4
74.
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Hector		 40 -16
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Leo		 40 -4
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Owen		 35 -6
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Basil		 34 +3
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Howard		 34 new
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Louis		 34 new
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Michael		 34 0
81.
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Daniel		 33 +1
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Sidney		 33 +1
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Gilbert		 31 -4
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Horace		 31 -11
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Malcolm		 31 -16
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Lewis		 29 0
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Gerald		 28 -1
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Lionel		 28 +10
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Desmond		 27 +8
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Maxwell		 27 new
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Russell		 27 +4
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Arnold		 26 -20
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Dudley		 26 +4
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Martin		 26 new
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Phillip		 26 new
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Brian		 24 new
96.
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Vincent		 24 -10
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Wallace		 24 new
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Lindsay		 23 -2
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Murray		 23 new
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Neville		 23 -14
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Roland		 23 -9
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Mary		 528 0
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Margaret		 448 0
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Dorothy		 293 0
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Phyllis		 263 +1
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Kathleen		 256 -1
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Jean		 246 +1
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Mavis		 227 0
8.
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Annie		 215 +5
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Edna		 208 0
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Eileen		 199 -4
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Doris		 186 -1
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Elizabeth		 183 +2
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Alice		 181 -1
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Gladys		 174 -3
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Ethel		 161 +5
15.
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Marjorie		 161 +6
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Florence		 159 +1
18.
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Thelma		 158 -1
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Jessie		 155 -1
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Ellen		 148 +10
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Olive		 148 +4
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Elsie		 144 -7
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Joan		 138 +8
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Joyce		 138 +4
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Edith		 137 -9
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Winifred		 134 -1
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Violet		 130 +7
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Hazel		 129 -2
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Agnes		 127 -6
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Rita		 119 +10
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Catherine		 116 +2
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Ivy		 115 -11
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Irene		 114 -5
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Myrtle		 114 +6
35.
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Mabel		 110 +2
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Frances		 107 +2
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Iris		 106 +11
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Vera		 102 -3
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Muriel		 95 -10
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Nancy		 94 -9
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Ruby		 90 +4
42.
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Grace		 89 -6
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Helen		 89 0
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Hilda		 88 -3
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Ruth		 84 +6
46.
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Evelyn		 75 -3
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Lorna		 74 0
48.
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Alma		 72 -2
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Betty		 72 +25
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Lilian		 72 +5
51.
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Beatrice		 71 +10
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Dulcie		 65 +17
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Mona		 64 +8
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Eva		 62 -10
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Marion		 62 -1
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Nellie		 61 +3
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May		 59 +2
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Constance		 58 -8
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Gwendoline		 58 -9
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Isabella		 57 +5
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Sarah		 57 +27
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Sylvia		 57 +18
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Christina		 55 +10
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Doreen		 54 -11
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Isabel		 54 +5
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Eunice		 53 +24
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Audrey		 52 -2
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Patricia		 51 0
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Ida		 50 +7
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Marie		 50 +25
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Freda		 48 0
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Rose		 47 +9
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Emily		 46 -17
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Myra		 46 -17
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Rona		 46 -12
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Daphne		 45 +21
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Ada		 44 -19
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Lillian		 44 0
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Barbara		 43 +8
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Bertha		 43 +8
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Beryl		 43 -7
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Eleanor		 42 +3
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Amy		 41 -10
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Flora		 41 new
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Janet		 38 -20
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Lucy		 38 -33
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Marjory		 38 -21
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Laura		 37 -3
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Molly		 36 new
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Esther		 34 +7
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Lily		 34 -7
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Olga		 34 0
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Aileen		 33 new
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Gertrude		 32 -16
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Jane		 31 -5
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Ella		 30 +3
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Linda		 30 new
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Nora		 30 -6
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Louisa		 29 new
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Norah		 29 new
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Stella		 29 new
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Popularity extremes for New Zealand