how popular is greta, anyway?
Here's an interesting chart: The name Greta hits a huge peak in 1932 (for obvious reasons! Greta Garbo's career was hitting its peak right then); then, weirdly, another peak in 1966?! What on earth. Then, it completely disappears off the top 1000 in the eighties and nineties. And now it's heading toward its peak level again.
Of course, even at its most popular, as the chart shows, it's only 4 hundredths of a percent of the female population. If it were that high right now, it would mean 60,000 Gretas, if I'm doing my math right; now it's only 3 hundredths of a percent, which comes out to 45,000 Gretas. That seems like a lot of Gretas.
I still wonder what caused the Greta boom of the mid-sixties.
Of course, even at its most popular, as the chart shows, it's only 4 hundredths of a percent of the female population. If it were that high right now, it would mean 60,000 Gretas, if I'm doing my math right; now it's only 3 hundredths of a percent, which comes out to 45,000 Gretas. That seems like a lot of Gretas.
I still wonder what caused the Greta boom of the mid-sixties.
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