Official statistics on names given to babies in USA. http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/index.html Various breakdowns available eg 1000 most popular names in 1950's for males and females http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/1999/top1000of50s.html ___________________ I was wondering about relative frequency of Allan versus Alan as a Christian name. Alan is about 4.5 times more common amongst 1950's male babies in USA. Similar result for 1990s. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads