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To: decimon

My son who is in HS right now, he is one of two Marks in his school (a student body of over 1800 kids...so out of approximately 900 boys there are only two with that Apostle’s name)m. We know this as one male teacher (named surpisingly Mark!) ran a search. He is in his late 40s, and for years has followed name trends. This bumper crop of two ‘Marks’ is the most (oddly) he has ever seen in his tenure. There have been multiple years when this teacher found NO Marks in the student population.

The teacher started his anecdotal name study, when he encountered an overwhelming amount of ‘Texas City’ named, male students (Austin, Tyler, Dallas).

For what is worth, my 22 year old son also has a biblical, Apostle’s name (Matthew) and (at same school/district) he was one of many “Matts.”


129 posted on 04/30/2011 3:44:16 AM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom (Just call me SOME WOMAN with an email account.)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom
I am still a little bit surprised when I hear a grown man named Austin. My grandfather born in 1879 and my father born in 1911 were the only Austins I ever knew until the last few years. Now I have a grandson named Austin and every time I turn around I meet another one. :)
137 posted on 04/30/2011 6:12:41 AM PDT by Ditter
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