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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Rare but Real (2010)

For some reason, I started browsing the names below the SSA's top 1000. These are the really rare names. (For privacy's sake, they don't publish the names given to fewer than 5 children. Why the cut-off is five, not 4 or 6, who knows?)
As you can imagine, most of the names are either imported or invented. There are a few names I'm surprised to see way down there at the bottom. They're not recent creations, or terribly uncomfortable to modern ears; they've just somehow been unnoticed by today's parents.
So, these are some of the names given to only 5 children in 2010.

Boys:
  • Abednego
  • Anselm
  • Autry
  • Beauregard
  • Corentin
  • Donal
  • Einar
  • Hayato
  • Iestyn
  • Ingram
  • Iskandar
  • Joram
  • Kaloyan
  • Lewin
  • Montague
  • Nahuel
  • Oswin
  • Seymour
  • Tarquin
  • Thorsten

Girls:
  • Aderyn
  • Astraea
  • Beata
  • Brigitta
  • Dafina
  • Eudora
  • Genoveva
  • Harumi
  • Hedy
  • Heloise
  • Iolana
  • Nesta
  • Paolina
  • Sarika
  • Sojourner
  • Sunita
  • Trilby
  • Xanthe
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1 comment:

  1. AnjanetteJanuary 19, 2012 at 10:31 AM

    Some of these names really are surprising!

    You got me curious and I looked up my own name (Anjanette). In 3 of the last 5 years, there were less than 5 babies names Anjanette.

    There were 10 Anjanette's in 2009, 5 in 2006 & 2007.

    My birth year (1983), there were 21 of us. :)

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