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Ada (and Alexa)...

"...with Ada in the top 100 girls' names for the first time in a century."

The ONS said girls named Alexa also halved in a year, possibly due to potential confusion with Amazon's Echo."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49420311

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