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My full first name (Jonathan) seems to have peaked in popularity in the 80's. I never liked it. I kinda wish I'd been named after my father (Joe). He was named after his dad, though, and says he hated being a "Jr."
I wish. Trenchcoats, an air of mystique . . . but alas, no. Story goes when my mother was preggers with me she went to a movie with my dad and one of the characters was named Dirk. She liked it, and so it stuck, even though it is not my first name.
My stupid name has been #1 or #2 (mostly #1) every single year since 1954 and in the top 10 since 1943. Thanks, parents, for dooming me to a lifetime of answering people when they're talking to one of the other 5 Mikes in the room.
HOW COOL! My name was at it's lowest popularity (200+) at and before the date of my birth, then steadily waxed to popularity in the mid-70s, and has waned back down below 150 since. A perfect up-n-down curve.
Now if there's a plague on all those damn '70s Shanes I'll be back to having some uniqueness again.
My name was at #141 when my parents were born, but then in the seventies it shot up to #10, and then #3, and now it's at #4. Which explains why there were always at least three guys with the same first name in all of my classes in school.
Shane, I have a brother named Shane, too. He was born in '71. And my hubby's sister-in-law has a nephew, aged 7, named Shane. Maybe it's on the rise again?
My name was never super popular, though it did crack the top 100 the year I was born ('66) at #81. If it didn't have the "e" on the end, it would have been higher up. Funny thing, my mother hated the nickname my name naturally slides into, which I now prefer for myself.
My parents named me "Danny" on my birth certificate. All these years. . .the only answer I ever got from them was that it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Daniel seems like it's always in the rotation, if not way up there on the charts.
Mine wasn't ever in the top 1000 until that damn TV show came out. From 98 on, though, it's like #500, 600. Curses! Although maybe that will mean that people think I'm 35 years younger than I am.
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