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02-15-2005, 04:41 PM
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It seems that "Daniel" (from the Hebrew dan, judge/king/ruler and el, God, taken to mean "God is my judge") was popular circa 540BC among Hebrew prophets living in Babylon. Hmmm, I'd have never guessed.
Thanks for the link. 
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That rocks, Curt! For some reason it fascinates me, I was playing w/ it for quite a while. Thanks.
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02-15-2005, 05:23 PM
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Looks like my name was more popular arount the early 1900's, maybe thats why I have an old car.
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02-15-2005, 05:32 PM
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don't worry, Zee. my name in its German spelling didn't come up either. and the US spelling hit its peak in the 20s and rocketed downward ever since. I guess you could say my stock tanked and never recovered 
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Bryan was #51 in 1980, #63 in 2003.
Napoleon was #506 in the 1900s... it's all downhill from there, it looks like Naomi is making a comeback...
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02-15-2005, 06:01 PM
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My name "Christopher" was #2 in the 1980s right behind Michael and that was actually my mother's other choice.
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02-15-2005, 07:03 PM
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My friend's first name is Christopher and his middle name is Michael, so he had 'em both locked up
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02-15-2005, 07:28 PM
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hmm...I peaked in the 60's. How appropriate.
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02-15-2005, 07:31 PM
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Michael: #1 in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's...
This will go along way in helping feed my ego!
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02-15-2005, 08:02 PM
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Wow, pretty cool and entertaining.
I guess baby-name-wise my parents were real innovators in the 60's...Christopher, Michael and James. Good Catholic/American names without a doubt. But somebody calls across the room, and 5 heads turn...
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02-15-2005, 08:22 PM
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My name peaked in 1930 at slightly over one per thousand (the bottom of the barrel) and declined steadily after - for good reason.
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02-15-2005, 09:06 PM
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Wow! My name comes up. I imagine this was how Steve Martin felt in "The Jerk" when he found himself in the phone book.
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02-15-2005, 09:30 PM
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02-15-2005, 10:17 PM
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Mother always did tell me I had ***** for brains and fondly called me her little ***** head....but I can't seem to find her little pet name for me in the list...I guess it wasn't too popular...
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02-15-2005, 11:15 PM
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Hmmm, my girlfriend seems to find my name very popular right now - she often shouts it out aloud, hehe..!
Cheers! Willem
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02-16-2005, 05:16 AM
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John as a vanilla name has at least been on the wane for a few decades.
I checked a bunch of other names, and, as I suspected, Emma flatlined in the mid 20th cent, but went almost asymptotic lately. It seems every other gentile couple I know having kids names the girl Emma. Yick. Check out the "Boris" curve... JP
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02-16-2005, 05:30 AM
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Yick? My daughters name is Emma - named after her Grandmother.
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02-16-2005, 06:36 AM
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Mike -- not the name (I have a cousin named Emma, which name I really thought classic when it was given to her 18 years ago) but the group-think that attaches to name-giving and trendynames in general. Certainly no offense to any particular Emma -- you don't get to pick your name.
Nowhere near any sizeable fraction of the girls named Emma in the last 15 years are named after ancestors. They've got the name b/c it was trendy. I'm stuck with a vanilla name whose "popularity" I lament, but it'd suck to get a trendyname... for girls, recently: Britney or Brittany or Bria or Brooke, etc. I dated an "Abigail" named at birth in 1969 when it wasn't exactly cutting-edge; now it's a trendyname ... and looking at the curve, unless a very few Abigails had literally hundreds of children -each- in the 40's and 50's, there's no way it became the 6th most popular name in 2003 b/c all the girls are so named after gram'ma. JP
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