Fading Names
Names on the way down. Not a warning: a falling name is a name fewer children in the class will share, and roughly half of the vintage list spent decades here first.
Every name here is placed by how its recent years in the birth records compare with its
earlier ones — so the list moves as the records do.
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Lucie Lucie is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "light," the French form of Lucy.Girl French #1,131 in US
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Guadalupe Guadalupe is half Arabic and half Latin — wadi, a valley or river, joined to a word for a wolf.Unisex Spanish #1,248 in US
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Paola Paola is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "small" or "humble," the Italian form of Paula.Girl Italian #1,260 in US
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A style is our reading of a name. A decade is the register — the names children were actually given, in order, with the counts.