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25. British People & Culture: Popular Names

Confident Business English

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Anna was going to be called Isabelle but when she was born my mum said, oh it's definitely an Anna. In fact we shorten some names in English so they used to call her AC or Acon. If I were a boy I would have been called Christian because I don't like the name Christian at all. Hunter and Aurora join top 100 baby names as three babies are named after Apple's intelligent smart speaker Alexa.

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