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To: agere_contra

I wonder why Hillary is not a popular name for baby girls these days?

>>>>Rhetorical question tag>>>>>


7 posted on 03/05/2008 9:12:51 AM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd

There was a thread a loooooong time ago about the most hated name in Us history and it seems Hillary was hated more than Adolph.

I’ll look for it maybe Google has it cached


100 posted on 03/05/2008 9:37:36 AM PST by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Enter a name in the Baby Name Voyager, and you'll see its relative popularity over the past century.
238 posted on 03/05/2008 11:22:23 AM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Here ya go Sloth found what I was looking for
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Hillary is Most Poisoned Baby Name in History
* A posting by Matt

According to data published by the Social Security Administration, the name Hillary is the most severely poisoned baby name in history. Hillary had been steadily climbing the baby name charts since the 1960s, when it first graced the Top 1000, becoming the 136th most common name for baby girls in 1992. But the name sharply reversed course in 1993, smashing several longstanding records for name contamination in its plunge from the Top 1000 girl names last year.

The title for the most rapid case of name contamination had been held by Ebenezer and then Adolph, names that were shunned by parents after they became associated with Dickens’s miserly banker and the Nazi dictator Hitler. But while Ebenezer and Adolph each took over 30 years to fall from the Top 1000 after they were negatively associated with their prominent name sakes, Hillary dropped off the charts in just 10 years, upsetting the prior records in less than 30% of the time. Besides this achievement, Hillary also set records for largest drop in a single year (295 places in 1994), two years (420 places in 1993-1994) and ten years (>864 from 1993 to 2002). These titles taken together constitute the grand slam of name poisoning.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/976819/posts


253 posted on 03/05/2008 11:56:48 AM PST by Rightly Biased (Courage is not the lack of fear it is acting in spite of it<><)
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