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I've been searching my brain for a reason why it has fallen so far, so quickly, and even asking those older than me, who were around when the name was popular. No-one can think of a reason, there's no person with the name who could have tainted it, or anything like that.

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I've been looking up a few other names that were 'up there' at the top, close to the 'big three' at the time, and one of them has fallen even further out of favour than Claire. Interesting it's only one letter different to Emma, and that name is Gemma. It was #50 in 1996, and in 2017 was #1568. I just wonder why Emma has remained steadfast, and Gemma has just gone out of fashion.

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Yet I think I'm right in saying, Gemma has only recently started to find favour in the U.S?

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~Charley~
https://www.behindthename.com/pnl/184785

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It is a Yorkshire habit to say what you think with blunt frankness
~Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden~