Popular Names in New Zealand

Information from the New Zealand Government
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Times +/-
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John		 979 0
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William		 742 0
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James		 544 0
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Robert		 500 0
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George		 358 0
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Thomas		 333 0
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Ronald		 295 0
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Raymond		 242 +4
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Charles		 236 0
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Kenneth		 230 +4
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Douglas		 223 0
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Gordon		 218 +4
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Leslie		 218 +1
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Arthur		 216 -6
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Donald		 213 +9
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Edward		 199 -6
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David		 192 0
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Francis		 192 +1
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Eric		 186 -4
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Frederick		 181 -1
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Norman		 181 +3
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Harold		 173 0
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Ian		 172 +10
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Albert		 171 -5
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Allan		 165 +4
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Henry		 165 +1
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Jack		 164 -6
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Richard		 154 +1
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Colin		 150 +2
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Maurice		 150 +7
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Keith		 143 +8
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Stanley		 143 -6
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Ernest		 141 +1
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Alan		 139 +3
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Alfred		 138 -8
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Alexander		 135 -1
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Leonard		 128 -9
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Walter		 128 -5
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Frank		 123 +3
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Peter		 121 +5
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Noel		 119 +2
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Roy		 108 +3
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Joseph		 106 -4
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Herbert		 104 -6
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Ivan		 100 +8
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Patrick		 97 -5
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Trevor		 91 0
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Bruce		 87 +2
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Desmond		 87 0
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Reginald		 84 -6
51.
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Lawrence		 83 +4
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Owen		 79 -2
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Bernard		 72 +7
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Clifford		 68 -5
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Cyril		 68 +3
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Hugh		 67 +12
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Brian		 66 +2
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Harry		 66 -3
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Andrew		 63 +7
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Mervyn		 61 0
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Victor		 61 -8
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Clarence		 58 -6
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Russell		 57 +12
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Geoffrey		 53 +1
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Sydney		 53 -6
66.
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Cecil		 50 -6
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Rex		 50 +5
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Gerald		 49 +21
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Laurence		 49 new
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Philip		 46 0
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Edwin		 45 -5
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Michael		 45 +1
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Allen		 42 -9
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Samuel		 42 -1
75.
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Sidney		 41 +2
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Graham		 40 -2
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Stuart		 40 +4
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Claude		 39 +22
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Hector		 39 +2
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Neil		 39 +2
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Lloyd		 38 +14
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Leo		 36 -5
83.
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Arnold		 35 +6
84.
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Basil		 34 +16
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Daniel		 34 +16
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Lionel		 34 -4
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Malcolm		 34 -9
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Neville		 34 +5
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Percy		 34 -21
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Wilfred		 34 -15
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Anthony		 31 new
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Kevin		 31 new
91.
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Terence		 31 -5
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Wallace		 31 -5
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Selwyn		 30 -9
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Horace		 29 new
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Maxwell		 29 -16
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Ralph		 29 -19
99.
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Athol		 27 -10
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Gilbert		 27 -19
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Howard		 27 -10
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Lewis		 27 -4
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Murray		 27 -4
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Vernon		 27 new
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Girls
Rank Name Times +/-
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Margaret		 570 0
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Mary		 454 0
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Joan		 438 0
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Joyce		 392 +1
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Dorothy		 381 -1
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Jean		 305 0
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Kathleen		 248 +1
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Betty		 225 -1
9.
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Patricia		 210 +2
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Phyllis		 190 -1
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Eileen		 181 -1
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June		 180 +12
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Nancy		 167 +2
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Elizabeth		 164 -2
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Mavis		 161 -3
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Marjorie		 159 +2
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Doris		 153 -5
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Gladys		 151 -1
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Edna		 148 -4
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Thelma		 148 0
21.
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Olive		 144 +1
22.
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Audrey		 132 +8
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Irene		 128 +10
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Hazel		 123 +7
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Annie		 120 -4
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Doreen		 118 -3
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Florence		 115 -7
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Norma		 114 +8
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Alice		 113 -4
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Marie		 111 +7
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Shirley		 111 +26
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Elsie		 109 -6
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Helen		 108 -5
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Daphne		 107 +8
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Frances		 96 +9
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Ethel		 95 +5
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Winifred		 94 -10
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Evelyn		 93 0
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Vera		 93 +13
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Ellen		 91 +7
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Edith		 85 -9
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Muriel		 83 0
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Ruth		 83 -2
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Jessie		 81 -9
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Lorna		 80 0
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Violet		 79 -12
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Catherine		 78 -18
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Nola		 77 +2
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Ivy		 74 -3
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Iris		 73 -12
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Barbara		 70 +12
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Marion		 70 +2
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Constance		 68 +8
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Grace		 68 +5
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Rita		 68 +4
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Beryl		 66 -4
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Ngaire		 66 -1
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Hilda		 65 +7
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Myrtle		 65 -9
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Agnes		 62 -12
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Ruby		 62 +9
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Rona		 61 -4
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Lilian		 58 +14
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Gwendoline		 57 -2
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Peggy		 55 +9
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Beatrice		 54 +1
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Isabel		 54 +13
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Myra		 54 new
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Alma		 51 -11
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Dulcie		 49 -3
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Mona		 48 +1
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Enid		 47 -8
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Joy		 47 +22
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Lois		 47 +17
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Lucy		 47 +13
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Marjory		 47 +22
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Noeline		 47 +27
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Mabel		 45 -8
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Sylvia		 42 -26
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Molly		 41 0
81.
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Janet		 40 +2
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Pauline		 40 new
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Freda		 39 -13
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May		 39 -7
85.
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Eva		 38 -13
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Pearl		 38 -2
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Emily		 37 -12
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Eunice		 37 -10
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Josephine		 37 -2
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Valerie		 36 -9
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Ida		 34 -2
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Lillian		 33 -7
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Christina		 32 -8
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Elva		 32 new
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Ada		 31 -14
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Rose		 31 +2
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Gloria		 30 new
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Olga		 30 -32
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Ella		 28 new
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Esther		 28 -5
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Popularity extremes for New Zealand