Bakers Dozen

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

thanks for fixing my typo.

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)

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

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

Next: Male and female names that were popular in the 50s-70s but you rarely see as baby names today

  1. Susan
  2. Linda

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. :stuck_out_tongue:

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). None broke the Top 100 for 2010, so they were definitely more popular then than now.

I found an interesting site 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.

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).

(Hijack) Some of the names in 2009’s top 100 (particularly for girls) are really nauseating.

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