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What CKE says is so true. For instance, I have found seventeenth-century babies christened Tace given as Tracey by modern transcribers, and babies named Georgina in Victorian Britain transcribed as Georgia. The only babies in Victorian Britain actually named Georgia turned out to be the daughters of Greek parents. What did surprise me, though, was to find that eighteenth-century babies recorded by transcribers as Melody really were named Melody, a name I would have thought was coined in the 20th century.