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... decade . Finally , any division into decades is of course arbitrary . The great majority of names follow a popularity curve which approximates a normal curve , and the lists used for this paper will of course be biased toward names ...
... decade . Finally , any division into decades is of course arbitrary . The great majority of names follow a popularity curve which approximates a normal curve , and the lists used for this paper will of course be biased toward names ...
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Table 1. Percentages of births accounted for by the top names , by decade Males Females Decade # 1 Names Top 10 Top 50 # 1 Names Top 10 Top 50 1900s 5.3 27.2 53.8 5.1 20.0 49.5 1910s 5.2 28.4 55.5 5.5 22.2 50.3 1920s 4.9 30.6 57.2 5.6 ...
Table 1. Percentages of births accounted for by the top names , by decade Males Females Decade # 1 Names Top 10 Top 50 # 1 Names Top 10 Top 50 1900s 5.3 27.2 53.8 5.1 20.0 49.5 1910s 5.2 28.4 55.5 5.5 22.2 50.3 1920s 4.9 30.6 57.2 5.6 ...
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... decade's top fifty names . ( In the 1940s Deborah was the sixty - third most common American name . ) Amazingly , the pet form Debbie also scraped into the top fifty for the 1950s decade . Of course , more than one factor was probably ...
... decade's top fifty names . ( In the 1940s Deborah was the sixty - third most common American name . ) Amazingly , the pet form Debbie also scraped into the top fifty for the 1950s decade . Of course , more than one factor was probably ...
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American Indian placenames in the United States | 15 |
the derivation and referent of an old puzzle | 39 |
Placenames derived from Chinook Jargon in the state | 57 |
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