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Will Penelope break into the Top 100? We only have a few days to wonder, as hopefully the numbers for 2013 will come out in the next week or so. But looking back, as I am prone to do, I wonder... what long names (eight letters or more) have made it into the Top 100 since 1880? Here's a list for your weekend perusal:
Alexandra
Alexandria
Angelica
Angelina
Annabelle
Beatrice
Brittany
Brittney
Brooklyn
Caroline
Cassandra
Catherine
Charlene
Charlotte
Cheyenne
Christina
Christine
Constance
Courtney
Danielle
Dominique
Elizabeth
Florence
Gabriella
Gabrielle
Genevieve
Geraldine
Gertrude
Isabella
Isabelle
Jacqueline
Jeanette
Jennifer
Josephine
Katherine
Kathleen
Kimberly
Kristina
Lorraine
Mackenzie
Madeline
Margaret
Marguerite
Marjorie
Micheala
Michelle
Patricia
Rosemary
Samantha
Savannah
Scarlett
Serenity
Stephanie
Veronica
Victoria
Virginia
Alejandro
Alexander
Benjamin
Christian
Christopher
Clarence
Cleveland
Franklin
Frederick
Garfield
Harrison
Jeremiah
Jonathan
Lawrence
Mitchell
Nathaniel
Nicholas
Roosevelt
Sebastian
Theodore
In case you were wondering, there have been 466 girl names in the Top 100 since 1880. Only 56 of them have been "long" names (12%). Likewise, there have been 352 boy names in the Top 100 since 1880. Only 20 of them have been "long" names (6%).
Do you have a favorite long name? Has it ever made the Top 100?
I like Adrianna...
ReplyDeleteI like a lot of these - I think I like long names, maybe a side effect of having a very short one myself. Beatrice, Constance, Genevieve, Marguerite, Alexander, Sebastian and Theodore are especially nice.
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