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That is a great observation. We recently received census surveys in the mail, and I know those have been around for a while. I'm thinking the early records went by census surveys that were returned instead of social security numbers. This would certainly account for nicknames, mistaken genders, misspellings (i.e. Joesph instead of Joseph), and probably skewed results, as not everyone would have mailed them back or even been able to fill them out in the first place.

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http://babynames.com/namelist/9415432
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