There were only 47 Hermione's last year, which surprised me, honestly. I would've expected more. (Though, in the year before HP was released in the US, there were less than five, so if you're looking at it from that perspective it's definitely been used more often!)
I remember, when my sixth grade teacher started reading the book out loud to us, she pronounced Hermione "herm-ee-own" for a while. Then a friend of hers eventually corrected her. Haha. :)
Yeah, strictly percentage-wise, that's obviously a big jump, but it's still not a very large absolute number. :)
Out of curiosity, how do you have access to the exact numbers of births below the top 1,000? Laura Wattenberg's the only other person I've seen quoting those statistics. :p
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Date: 2010-12-09 02:53 am (UTC)I remember, when my sixth grade teacher started reading the book out loud to us, she pronounced Hermione "herm-ee-own" for a while. Then a friend of hers eventually corrected her. Haha. :)
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Date: 2010-12-15 05:39 am (UTC)Out of curiosity, how do you have access to the exact numbers of births below the top 1,000? Laura Wattenberg's the only other person I've seen quoting those statistics. :p
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