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Hit songs are songs that topped the US Billboard Weekly Hot 100.
First names in song titles that made no appearance in lists of the
top 200 baby names 1910-present were omitted.
Sorry Amadeus, Davy, Delilah, Dolly, Duke, Elmo, Jude, Juliet, Kyrie,
Louie, Mack, Mickey, Peg, Ringo, Romeo, Sharona, Stagger, Venus, Windy & Woody.
Funny, looks like “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” totally killed the name permanently.
I think there’s a whole book of rock and roll baby names coming out soon: http://www.amazon.com/Rock-Roll-Baby-Names-Music-Inspired/dp/1592406955
I like “Sheila” when she’s popular, followed by precipitous decline and “Oh, Sheila.”
Rudolph may have been killed by its similarity to Adolf.