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Would you call your baby Ruby? Why not Java?

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Now that we are coming to the end of the year we can look back and see what was popular in terms of baby names.  According to figures we are going back to a more traditional naming, with names coming more from the 1900's than the 2000's.

With Ruby making the Top20, one wonders what other 'geek' names could sneek into the list; should I have maybe gone with Java Williamson for my new born son this year?  Got a certain ring to it me thinks!

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blackbadger 0.9.2 released (Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:58:58 GMT)

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