On the popularity of "Florence", you can get an idea from a couple of
sites (though not the full length of time you want, and not universal):
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
http://www.behindthename.com/top/
These will show you that (since 1880) Florence was very popular until
the early 1920s, and then started dropping.
Regards
Ken
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Dr. Ken Masters
Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
Medical Education Unit
College of Medicine & Health Sciences
Sultan Qaboos University
Sultanate of Oman
E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Florence Nightingale and statistics - conference on
> October 7
> From: John Bibby <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sun, August 08, 2010 2:59 pm
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Does anyone know the facts about FND's name? Websites say her parents were
> friends of FN, or even that she was a collateral descendant. Who were FND's
> parents? (I am hunting for Davids at Ivingham where FND was born in 1909, a
> year before FN's death.)
>
> It is also said that FND hated her first two names - there must be people
> alive who knew her and I wonder if they can throw any light on this.
>
> JOHN BIBBY
>
> PS: I'm also interested to see data on how many 'Florence's were born in the
> period 1800-1950. FN was not the first, but may have set the trend. I
> suspect there were many Fs born in the 1850s (Crimea) and in the 1910s (my
> mother was one - she too did not use the name Florence although she was
> given it). Does anyone know where I can easily get such data on the name
> 'Florence'?
>
>
>
> On 7 August 2010 18:18, Dorothy Middleton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > Let us not forget her contribution to the parents of the late eminent
> > statistician Florence Nightingale David.
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> > Subject: [SPAM] Florence Nightingale and statistics - conference on
> > October 7
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> > Date: Thu, August 05, 2010 12:26 am
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> > Celebrating Florence Nightingale
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> > On Thursday 7 October at the Royal Statistical Society a one-day
> > conference will be held entitled ‘The passionate statistician:
> > Florence Nightingale’s use of statistics and links with
> > statisticians’.
> >
> > The keynote speaker will be Lynn McDonald (editor of Collected Works of
> > Florence Nightingale), and other speakers will include David
> > Spiegelhalter, Eileen Magnello, Andy Grieve, John Bibby and Alison
> > Macfarlane.
> >
> > Contributed talks and posters on the theme of the conference are
> > invited. Please send an abstract no longer than 500 words by 1 September
> > to Paul Gentry at the RSS ([log in to unmask]).
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