Grace Kelly via Wikipedia
Continuing the Where Are They Now series, here is a look at the next 20 names in the Top 100 from 1911. You can review the Top 10 and #11-20 entries to compare.
1911 #21-30
21 Louis - #332 and steady (after rising to #20)
22 Fred - fell off the Top 1000 after 2002
23 Clarence - fell off the Top 1000 after 2010
24 Ralph - #953 and steady
25 Jack - #45 and steady (after falling to #179)
26 Carl - #591 and falling
27 David - #18 and falling (after rising to #1)
28 Howard - #960 and falling
29 Joe - #491 and falling
30 Samuel - #26 and steady (after falling to #72)
21 Irene - #689 and falling
22 Ruby - #109 and rising (after falling to #401)
23 Grace - #16 and rising (after falling to #397)
24 Annie - #386 and steady
25 Hazel - #211 and rising (after falling out of the Top 1000 for 20 years)
26 Virginia - #576 and steady
27 Thelma - fell off the Top 1000 after 1982
28 Martha - #772 and falling
29 Josephine - #182 and rising (after falling to #498)
30 Gertrude - fell off the Top 1000 after 1965
Jack and Samuel both fell and rose again since 1911. Ruby, Grace, and Josephine fell even further before turning things around. However, the biggest mover of the group is Hazel, falling completely out of the Top 1000 for twenty years, reentering in 1998 at #942, and rising quickly since. These names definitely fall in the "100 year rule" category. In this group of names, more have fallen out of the Top 1000 and we have our first reverse situation: David rose to #1 and then fell back within the hundred years.
I would like to see Virginia on the rise again. Do you see any of the other names making a comeback soon?
I'd like to see Virginia back up again - come to think of it, that's more likely in America where it has much more history.
ReplyDeleteThese are names I'm seeing a fair bit of currently: Louis, Fred, Jack, Joe and Samuel for boys; Ruby, Grace, Hazel, and Josephine for girls.
I have seen the name Gertie a couple of times, but no Gertrude - I presume the "rude" at the end is a problem.