| @raragigi, I don't mind answering questions. I appreciate people bringing up names I might have missed, especially given that since I haven't been able to find a Catholic translation with a good keyword search, it's quite likely that I missed a few in the deuterocanonical books (especially since I'm not Catholic, and only vaguely familiar with them). Had more baby girls been named "Susanna" in 2009, that would have been a great example of that.
I'm glad you brought up the spelling issue, because now I understand where you're coming from a bit better. Because I'm using the SSA's lists as my source for what counts as a popular name, spelling matters. "Susannah" and "Susanna" aren't the same name, according to the SSA. Combining spellings is a tricky business. The combiner has to guess at intended pronunciation, and occasionally make somewhat arbitrary decisions. The best example of this I can think of off the top of my head is Louis, Lewis, and Louie. Louis can be pronounced as Lewis and it can pronounced as Louie, but Lewis and Louie don't feel like the same name at all. So what should the combiner do, here? The data is textual, so there's no way to know what percentage of the Louis's are pronounced like Louie, and what percentage are pronounced like Lewis. In addition to the difficulty in figuring out what should be combined, it also takes a long time to do well. So I'm not going there, at least for this quiz :)
You are correct that I'm not looking for specific people named these things, just for the word to appear (that is how "raven" got into the quiz). So when I say, for example, that "jade" isn't in the Bible, I mean that even the word "jade" doesn't appear (to address the particular example, "jade" did feel vaguely familiar to me as something that shows up in the Bible, too, but I double checked the spots where I thought it might show up in all three translations I own paper copies of, and it really isn't there). |
Baby Names: Girls (1940s)
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