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These name trend pieces are always sort of silly, because when you consider the scale it gets ridiculous. Yes 2017 marked a year in which Khaleesi was in the top 1000 names, but that's only with 466 names, that's still a mere 0.025% of female births. ssa.gov/cgi-bin/babyname.cgi
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And Arya has long beat out Khaleesi, and been on the top 1000 list since 2010. At a rank of 135 in 2017, that is still a tiny .115% of names for a total of 2156 female babies. So this is pretty silly as a coverage topic nytimes.com/2019/04/29/style/game-of-thrones-baby-names.html
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To put it to real scale here, there just aren't *that* many babies named the same thing the same year. The most popular female name is Emma, it has been for 2014-2017 now. It only represents 1.053% of births, a total of 19,738.
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(that's in 2017, if that wasn't clear)