Some of the sounds for boys’ names also shift back and forth over time, although change is less common.…we find a substantial increase in the n-ending in the second half of the twentieth century, peaking in 1975 at nearly 40 percent of the leading boys [sic] names and now moving downward (by 1993, n-endings decline to thirteen from the nineteen found in 1975).
—Stanley Lieberson, A Matter of Taste: How Names, Fashions, and Culture Change (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 99.
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