Scattered Names

Names that appear in the records, disappear, and come back — never in continuous use, and never quite gone either. A gap can mean nobody was given the name that decade, or that too few were for it to be published; both say the same thing about how rare it has always been.

201 names, uncommon — 100 to 499 a year, in the United States

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A decade page lists the names children were given in those years, in order, with the counts.

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