James, Jane top poll
' CN’.Z.P.I, Shi// Correspondent) ! LONDON. James and Jane remain) the most popular names for the babies of Britain’s! “top” people. John and Elizabeth are ithe next most popular; [names, but Robert and) [[Catherine and Caroline are! 'catching up. Each year Mr , John! . Leaver, of Ruislip, Middle-: [sex, compiles a list of the. [most popular names from' [the birth notices in “The(Times.” .[ It is the tenth consecutive .[year that James has headed .[the boy’s list and Jane is [the most popular girls’ name Jfor the seventeenth year 11 running. J John, Alexander, Edward, William and Charles rei main in the number two to; 11 six positions in the boys’[ [table while Elizabeth has' ::ousted Louise as the second' •'most popular girls’ name.! i;Mary and Sarah are fourth! •>and fifth while Emma! - climbed from ninth in 1972) ;to sixth. '[ The lists were compiled; ■'from 5173 births and 53; adoptions recorded in “The; I’Times” during 1973.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33433, 15 January 1974, Page 6
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