Yes, history is invading the sanctum sanctorum of baby-blog land for the second time in two days, but this one is very related, because I want to talk about baby names. Well, not that much, though we did some blogging on how Peanut became Nicholas last spring and summer. But yesterday I saw a link to two posts that discussed popular baby names—in Boston in 1710. The first post was just a list of the names for 1710, and if you look at the list, you'll see that lots of those celebrating their tricentennial this year would fit right in with the newborns now: Mary, Sarah, John, Abigail, William, Thomas. The blogger included for comparison a list from seventeenth-century Windsor, Connecticut that was a bit more Puritan: no Mindwells nowadays.
Then the blogger put up a more comprehensive list two days later that analyzed over 1,600 children born in Boston from 1710-1715. Similar results obviously, but I found the whole thing kind of interesting, especially given the high rate of similarities.
No word yet from Social Security on where "Nicholas" ranked for 2009, but we'll let you know!
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