The names of two of my great-grandaunts, Isabella and Emily, who were born in county Leitrim in the 1860’s are names numbered two and three in popularity for girls born in the United States in 2008. When I was a child I would not have thought that those names would ever be popular again. And their father’s name, Daniel, is number five for boys born in the U.S. in 2008, but Daniel has always had a certain popularity.
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