Popular Names in Scotland

Information from National Records of Scotland
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Boys · Girls
Boys
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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John		 10.08% 0
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James		 8.37% 0
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William		 6.63% 0
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David		 5.63% 0
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Robert		 5.32% 0
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Thomas		 3.61% 0
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Alexander		 3.05% 0
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George		 2.86% 0
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Ian		 2.78% 0
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Alan		 2.29% +4
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Andrew		 2.11% 0
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Michael		 2.03% 0
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Brian		 2.02% -3
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Peter		 1.81% +1
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Gordon		 1.74% -2
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Kenneth		 1.58% +1
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Charles		 1.41% -1
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Ronald		 1.21% 0
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Joseph		 1.12% +3
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Donald		 1.12% +1
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Colin		 1.07% -1
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Douglas		 1.02% -3
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Hugh		 1.01% +2
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Allan		 0.89% 0
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Richard		 0.86% -2
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Edward		 0.82% +1
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Derek		 0.81% -1
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Francis		 0.77% 0
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Graham		 0.77% +1
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Iain		 0.75% +5
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Stephen		 0.72% +7
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Neil		 0.70% -3
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Patrick		 0.64% -2
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Daniel		 0.64% -2
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Norman		 0.60% +2
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Alistair		 0.60% -2
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Raymond		 0.57% -4
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Paul		 0.55% +7
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Henry		 0.52% +2
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Stuart		 0.49% -4
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Martin		 0.48% -2
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Gerard		 0.44% +14
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Duncan		 0.44% -3
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Malcolm		 0.44% 0
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Stewart		 0.42% +1
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Alastair		 0.41% +3
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Anthony		 0.40% +3
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Christopher		 0.39% +5
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Eric		 0.38% -5
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Archibald		 0.38% -2
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Gerald		 0.36% +4
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Leslie		 0.36% -4
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Philip		 0.34% -11
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Samuel		 0.34% -2
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Arthur		 0.33% -1
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Graeme		 0.32% +1
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Angus		 0.31% -6
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Walter		 0.31% 0
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Keith		 0.29% +1
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Matthew		 0.28% +1
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Roderick		 0.21% -3
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Bernard		 0.21% +3
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Terence		 0.21% +1
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Frank		 0.20% -1
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Frederick		 0.20% +1
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Steven		 0.19% +11
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Dennis		 0.19% -5
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Gavin		 0.19% +1
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Albert		 0.19% -2
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Bruce		 0.18% -1
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Kevin		 0.17% +3
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Roy		 0.17% 0
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Lawrence		 0.17% -1
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Adam		 0.15% +1
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Harry		 0.15% -1
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Gary		 0.15% +4
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Stanley		 0.14% -8
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Robin		 0.13% 0
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Bryan		 0.12% +10
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Alfred		 0.12% 0
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Alasdair		 0.12% +3
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Jack		 0.11% -6
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Mark		 0.11% +11
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Scott		 0.11% +1
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Denis		 0.10% -6
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Jeffrey		 0.10% new
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Lindsay		 0.10% -4
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Ross		 0.10% +8
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Garry		 0.10% new
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Laurence		 0.10% new
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Fraser		 0.10% new
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Maurice		 0.09% new
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Roger		 0.09% +6
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Barry		 0.09% new
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Nigel		 0.09% -3
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Vincent		 0.09% new
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Hamish		 0.09% -6
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Leonard		 0.09% -11
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Russell		 0.09% -15
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Nicholas		 0.08% -2
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Girls
Rank Name Pct. +/-
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Margaret		 6.90% 0
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Elizabeth		 5.31% 0
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Mary		 4.54% 0
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Linda		 3.26% 0
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Anne		 3.05% 0
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Catherine		 2.85% 0
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Helen		 2.47% 0
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Ann		 1.94% +1
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Patricia		 1.91% -1
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Christine		 1.54% +1
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Maureen		 1.50% +2
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Jean		 1.48% -2
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Irene		 1.41% 0
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Agnes		 1.38% -2
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Janet		 1.34% 0
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Susan		 1.24% +3
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Marion		 1.21% +4
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Carol		 1.19% +2
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Jane		 1.18% -2
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Sandra		 1.18% -2
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Kathleen		 1.15% -5
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Sheila		 1.00% 0
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Fiona		 0.97% +16
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Elaine		 0.92% +6
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Moira		 0.88% -1
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Alison		 0.86% +1
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Barbara		 0.85% -2
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Joan		 0.84% -5
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June		 0.81% -3
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Dorothy		 0.81% -1
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Joyce		 0.76% +4
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Janice		 0.73% +4
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Isabella		 0.72% -5
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Lesley		 0.71% +10
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Jacqueline		 0.70% +3
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Christina		 0.70% -4
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Eileen		 0.68% -4
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Frances		 0.65% -4
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Rosemary		 0.60% +3
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Marian		 0.59% new
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Jennifer		 0.58% -1
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Annie		 0.58% -5
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Evelyn		 0.58% -2
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Morag		 0.55% +3
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Isobel		 0.54% +2
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Sarah		 0.51% -3
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Valerie		 0.51% 0
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Caroline		 0.50% -3
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Marie		 0.50% +14
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Janette		 0.49% +3
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Lorna		 0.49% -1
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Brenda		 0.48% 0
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Eleanor		 0.47% -2
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Sheena		 0.47% +6
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Heather		 0.46% -8
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Lorraine		 0.45% +8
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Pamela		 0.43% +1
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Yvonne		 0.43% 0
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Jessie		 0.41% +2
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Angela		 0.40% +12
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Norma		 0.40% +6
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Marilyn		 0.39% -31
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Ellen		 0.39% -9
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Doreen		 0.38% -5
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Aileen		 0.38% -1
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Wilma		 0.35% -5
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Rose		 0.35% +2
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Audrey		 0.35% +7
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Alexandra		 0.34% -1
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Alice		 0.34% -14
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Grace		 0.33% -15
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Hazel		 0.32% -2
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Ruth		 0.32% +1
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Jeanette		 0.31% -3
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Isabel		 0.31% -8
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Maria		 0.29% +8
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Sylvia		 0.27% 0
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Gillian		 0.27% +4
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Shirley		 0.27% +10
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Lynda		 0.26% -1
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Pauline		 0.25% -6
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Georgina		 0.24% 0
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Josephine		 0.24% -6
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Annette		 0.23% -4
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Teresa		 0.23% +6
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Diane		 0.23% -12
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Anna		 0.22% +8
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Williamina		 0.21% -1
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Lynn		 0.21% +5
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Avril		 0.21% +3
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Carole		 0.20% -5
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Theresa		 0.19% -8
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Lynne		 0.19% new
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Jeanie		 0.18% +5
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Veronica		 0.18% +2
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Louise		 0.18% new
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Karen		 0.18% new
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Phyllis		 0.18% -11
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Gail		 0.17% new
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Martha		 0.17% -1
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Popularity extremes for Scotland