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Why are no Americans named Nigel?

Why are no Americans named Nigel?
And other English names? Aren't the English language names used in the US from England? So why is no one Nigel or some others?

What are the others?

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[nq:1]Why are no Americans named Nigel? And other English names? Aren't the English language names used in the US from England?

  • [nq:1]Why are no Americans named Nigel?
  • And other English names?
  • Aren't the English language names used in the US from England?
  • [/nq] Some English language names used in the US are from England (or more generally from Britain and Ireland).
  • Other English language names used in the US are derived from names from other countries.
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[nq:1]Why are no Americans named Nigel? And other English names? Aren't the English language names used in the US from England? So why is no one Nigel or some others?[/nq]
Some English language names used in the US are from England (or more generally from Britain and Ireland). Other English language names used in the US are derived from names from other countries.

There is no law sayi
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[nq:1]Why are no Americans named Nigel? =C2=A0[/nq]
Nigel Lowrie, a senior in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University, has been named one of the nation's top 25 "Most Promising Minority Students" in advertising for 2002 by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Lowrie, whose hometown is Sugar Land, Texas, was the only student in
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[nq:1]Why are no Americans named Nigel? =A0 And other English names? =A0 Aren't the English language names used in the ... Pa. =A010 years Indianapolis 10 years Chicago =A0 =A0 =A0 6 years Brooklyn, NY 12 years Baltimore =A0 =A026 years[/nq]
Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing up in Cleveland in the 1950's and 1960's, I never met a Jason. Now they seem to be all over. Here in Bal
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[nq:2]Why are no Americans named Nigel? And other English names? ... Chicago 6 years Brooklyn, NY 12 years Baltimore 26 years[/nq]
[nq:1]Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing up in Cleveland in the 1950's and 1960's, I never ... Mason is the new trendy name for boys. No Dixon's that I know of, maybe thats the next big thing.[/nq]
Masonus Dixonus Linus

Ray
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[nq:1]Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing up in Cleveland in the 1950's and 1960's, I never ... Mason is the new trendy name for boys. No Dixon's that I know of, maybe thats the next big thing.[/nq]
When our daughter Jennifer, now 39 yo, was in high school she complained that most of the girls in her class seemed to be named Jennifer.

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[nq:1]Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing up in Cleveland in the 1950's and 1960's, I never ... Mason is the new trendy name for boys. No Dixon's that I know of, maybe thats the next big thing.[/nq]
I never met a Joshua until college. Now they're all over. Currently I know 5 Joshuas. I must know at least 5 or 6 Jessicas, but when I was a kid I didn't know a one.
It is funny t
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[nq:2]Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing ... that I know of, maybe thats the next big thing.[/nq]
[nq:1]When our daughter Jennifer, now 39 yo, was in high school she complained that most of the girls in her class seemed to be named Jennifer.[/nq]
In Shaw's play "The Doctor's Dilemma", the female protagonist finds it necessary to explain the Celtic origin of her unusual name:
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[nq:2]Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing ... that I know of, maybe thats the next big thing.[/nq]
[nq:1]I never met a Joshua until college. Now they're all over. Currently I know 5 Joshuas. I must know at ... It is funny that the U.S. has a lack of Nigels. You also don't see any men named Beverly, either.[/nq]
Or Trevor. I did know a man named Shirley.

John Varela
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[nq:2]I never met a Joshua until college. Now they're all ... Nigels. You also don't see any men named Beverly, either.[/nq]
[nq:1]Or Trevor. I did know a man named Shirley.[/nq]
Any male Evelyn around ??
Jay
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[nq:2]Names go in and out of fashion, it seems. Growing ... that I know of, maybe thats the next big thing.[/nq]
[nq:1]I never met a Joshua until college. Now they're all over. Currently I know 5 Joshuas. I must know at ... It is funny that the U.S. has a lack of Nigels. You also don't see any men named Beverly, either.[/nq]
In prep school the (male) French teacher's first name was Shirley

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