This website features a cool toy that lets you type in your name or that of anyone else and see how popular that name was the year you were born and every year since.
It seems Ron (Ronald) was the 10th most popular boys name in the 1940s, the 15th most popular in the '50s (I was born in 1959), but was the 308th most popular in 2008.
My mom's name is Norma, a name that peaked at #28 in the 1930s. Her sisters Thelma, Doris and Sybil all had names that were popular when they were born, but sound rather old fashioned today.
Fascinating stuff.
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