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<blockquote data-quote="Hardhead" data-source="post: 1486954" data-attributes="member: 2844">If you go <a href="http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/" target="_blank">here</a> you can find the list for every other decade in the 20th century as well.&nbsp; Looking through the old names is fun.&nbsp; It's hard to believe that &quot;Elmer&quot; was as popular then as &quot;Brian&quot; was in the 1990s (both 36th in their respective decades). What I found odd, though, was the change in Women's names.&nbsp; The top 20 men's names from the 1900s look pretty normal:Clarence and Albert are really the only ones that people don't really use anymore.&nbsp; On the other hand, the women's names are:Florence?&nbsp; Ethel?&nbsp; Midred?&nbsp; Edna?&nbsp; Helen?&nbsp; Gladys?&nbsp; No one really names their kids that anymore.&nbsp; There seems to be more change and trends among women's names (for instance, the statistic I cited earlier was that the top 50 names, for the first time, accounted for less than 50% of the boys' names and less than 40% of the girls names).&nbsp; The circumstantial evidence on this board points the same way.&nbsp; Most of the weird names are girls' names.&nbsp; Even &quot;Raistlen&quot; was a girl.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hardhead, post: 1486954, member: 2844"] If you go [url=http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/]here[/url] you can find the list for every other decade in the 20th century as well. Looking through the old names is fun. It's hard to believe that "Elmer" was as popular then as "Brian" was in the 1990s (both 36th in their respective decades). What I found odd, though, was the change in Women's names. The top 20 men's names from the 1900s look pretty normal: Clarence and Albert are really the only ones that people don't really use anymore. On the other hand, the women's names are: Florence? Ethel? Midred? Edna? Helen? Gladys? No one really names their kids that anymore. There seems to be more change and trends among women's names (for instance, the statistic I cited earlier was that the top 50 names, for the first time, accounted for less than 50% of the boys' names and less than [b]40%[/b] of the girls names). The circumstantial evidence on this board points the same way. Most of the weird names are girls' names. Even "Raistlen" was a girl. [/QUOTE]

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