I thought my mum's cousin had a fairly unique name, Thora, but when I was looking for her marriage, I found 32 Thora's married the same year, 1940, (and that was just in NSW).
That number dropped to 9 in 1963 ! There was only one Thora married 1850-1900 and 5 between 1900 and 1920.
Similarly, there were only 10 birth registrations for Thora before 1900, but 134 from then till 1913.
I just looked at freeBMD births for a comparison - a scattering of 2 or 3 every quarter or so up to 1910, then each quarter taking up the whole of my computer screen through till about 1926, then gradually dropping back to 2-3 each quarter by 1950.
So what made "Thora" popular ?
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