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Cleveland Escorts: Baby names: Old standard John beginning to slide

Posted in Cleveland escorts by clevelandhobbyist on the July 22, 2010

John was used for so many boys (sometimes in the same family) that it spawned a variety of nicknames. The medieval Jankin, for instance, morphed into Jackin was shortened to Jack. For years, Jack rivaled John in the polls both inside and outside of Great Britain spawning everything from Jack and the Beanstalk to Jack Russell terriers.
But by the early 20th century, John — and to a lesser extent, Jack — had acquired so many rude associations that it lost stature as a name. Toilets and clients of prostitution were called johns, there were the generic John Q. Public and John Doe, prices were jacked up, and … it gets worse. In 1924, John fell out of the Number 1 place (it was replaced by Robert), which it’s never regained.

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