# Bakers Dozen **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [August 4, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173 "2010-08-04T17:56:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 221
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4401 "2011-03-22T18:50:58Z")
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry) 1. Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him) 2. Silken Laumann - rowing 3. Gretzky, Wayne - hockey 4. Eric Gagne - baseball 5. Sandra Schmirler - curling 6. Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis 7. Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback) 8. Brian Orser - figure skating 9. Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting 10. Steve Nash - Basketball ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4402 "2011-03-22T18:58:00Z")
thanks for fixing my typo. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4403 "2011-03-22T18:58:01Z")
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry) 1. Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him) 2. Silken Laumann - rowing 3. Gretzky, Wayne - hockey 4. Eric Gagne - baseball 5. Sandra Schmirler - curling 6. Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis 7. Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback) 8. Brian Orser - figure skating 9. Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting 10. Steve Nash - Basketball 11. Nicolas Gill- Judo (Olympic medal winner) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4404 "2011-03-22T19:45:39Z")
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry) 1. Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him) 2. Silken Laumann - rowing 3. Gretzky, Wayne - hockey 4. Eric Gagne - baseball 5. Sandra Schmirler - curling 6. Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis 7. Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback) 8. Brian Orser - figure skating 9. Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting 10. Steve Nash - Basketball 11. Nicolas Gill- Judo (Olympic medal winner) 12. Kelly VanderBeek - skiing ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4405 "2011-03-22T20:18:42Z")
Notable Canadian Athletes and their sport (please use a different sport for each entry) 1. Moe Norman - Golf: (arguably the best ball striker ever, and many golf fans have never heard of him) 2. Silken Laumann - rowing 3. Gretzky, Wayne - hockey 4. Eric Gagne - baseball 5. Sandra Schmirler - curling 6. Carling Bassett-Seguso - tennis 7. Jesse Palmer - American football (Florida Gator quarterback) 8. Brian Orser - figure skating 9. Ben Johnson - 100 m/sprinting 10. Steve Nash - Basketball 11. Nicolas Gill- Judo (Olympic medal winner) 12. Kelly VanderBeek - skiing 13. Jacques Villeneuve: Formula One racing Next: Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4406 "2011-03-22T20:21:35Z")
Next: Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4407 "2011-03-22T20:36:57Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4408 "2011-03-22T20:50:17Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4409 "2011-03-22T21:14:45Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4410 "2011-03-22T22:05:48Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4411 "2011-03-22T22:58:49Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter 7. Barbara ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4412 "2011-03-22T23:07:04Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter 7. Barbara 8. Thomas ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4413 "2011-03-22T23:33:19Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter 7. Barbara 8. Thomas 9. Martha ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4414 "2011-03-23T00:27:32Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter 7. Barbara 8. Thomas 9. Martha 10. Ralph ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4415 "2011-03-23T00:41:26Z")
Not being nitpicky here, but were Walter, Martha and Ralph really _popular_ names? I guess they must have been before my time (born in mid-60s) if they were. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4416 "2011-03-23T01:20:19Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Not being nitpicky here, but were Walter, Martha and Ralph really _popular_ names? I guess they must have been before my time (born in mid-60s) if they were. 😛 Depends on the definition of _popular_ I suppose. In the 1950s Walter and Ralph were number 40 and 52 respectively for boys and Martha was number 32 for girls. ([Cite](http://www.babycenter.com/0_100-most-popular-baby-names-of-1950_1738074.bc)). None broke the [Top 100 for 2010](http://www.babycenter.com/top-baby-names-2010), so they were definitely more popular then than now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4417 "2011-03-23T02:36:58Z")
> [@Infovore](#): > > Not being nitpicky here, but were Walter, Martha and Ralph really _popular_ names? I guess they must have been before my time (born in mid-60s) if they were. 😛 I found an interesting [site](http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/) that lets you plot name popularity by year (it starts in 1879 and runs up to 2009). If you search Walter, you’ll find it was a very popular name in the early part of the twentieth century. In 1914, it even cracked the top ten. Its popularity started a long decline in the forties but it didn’t fall out of the top hundred until 1973. But it kept falling and by now it’s approaching the four hundreds. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4418 "2011-03-23T02:39:57Z")
Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter 7. Barbara 8. Thomas 9. Martha 10. Ralph 11. Steven Fell from #10 (1955-1961) to #106 (2009). ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4419 "2011-03-23T02:47:31Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Next: Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today (Hijack) Some of the names in 2009’s top 100 (particularly for girls) are really nauseating. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2011, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173/4420 "2011-03-23T03:52:34Z")
Heh. I know a half-dozen youngish Stevens, and two boys in the same family named John and Thomas. Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today 1. Susan 2. Linda 3. Patricia 4. George 5. John 6. Walter 7. Barbara 8. Thomas 9. Martha 10. Ralph 11. Steven 12. Frank [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=220) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen/549173.md?page=222)