{"id":5431,"date":"2011-05-14T02:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T09:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5431"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:18:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:18:47","slug":"mary-was-the-most-popular-female-baby-name-in-the-us-for-67-consecutive-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/mary-was-the-most-popular-female-baby-name-in-the-us-for-67-consecutive-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary was the Most Popular Female Baby Name in the US for 67 Consecutive Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5432\" title=\"mary - popular baby names\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"619\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mary.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/mary-340x377.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>Mary was the most popular female baby name in the US from 1879-1946.\u00a0 It was finally beat by &#8220;Linda&#8221; in 1947.\u00a0 Linda held that position until 1953 when it was beat out by none other than Mary, which then held that spot until 1962 when it was supplanted by &#8220;Lisa&#8221;.\u00a0 Since then, Mary has never regained the top spot.\u00a0 In the most recent complete year, 2010, Mary was the 109th most popular female baby name in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Since &#8220;Lisa&#8221;, the most popular female baby names were: Jennifer, Ashley, Jessica, Emily, Emma, and Isabella, the latter of which has held the top spot since 2009.\u00a0 Isabella first debuted in the top 5 in 2006, appearing at position 4, and steadily climbed from there to number 1, no doubt initially spurred on by the 2005 release of &#8220;<a title=\"Twilight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/031613290X\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=vaccafoedamedia-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399353&amp;creativeASIN=031613290X\" target=\"_blank\">Twilight<\/a>&#8221; with the main character being Isabella Swan.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Top 5 Baby Names in the Last 100 Years\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssa.gov\/oact\/babynames\/top5names.html\" target=\"_blank\">Top 5 Baby Names in the Last 100 Years<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Mary was the most popular female baby name in the US from 1879-1946.\u00a0 It was finally beat by &#8220;Linda&#8221; in 1947.\u00a0 Linda held that position until 1953 when it was beat out by none other than Mary, which then held that spot until 1962 when it was supplanted by &#8220;Lisa&#8221;.\u00a0 Since then, Mary has never regained the top spot.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1376],"class_list":["post-5431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-popular-baby-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5431\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}