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"Don't call me Caitlyn"
Baby name plunges in popularity
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WASHINGTON — Don't call me Caitlyn.A year after Caitlyn Jenner announced her new name and gender, the popularity of the name Caitlyn plummeted more than any other baby name, according to Social Security's annual list of the most popular baby names.In fact, the four names that dropped the most were all variations of the same name: Caitlin, Caitlyn, Katelynn and Kaitlynn."It was inevitable," said Laura Wattenberg, founder of BabynameWizard.com. "Caitlyn was already falling in popularity. Now it is suddenly controversial."The Social Security Administration released its annual list of the 1,000 most popular baby names for 2016 on Friday.
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