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You ever spend a really long time just to get a visual, or organize a huge amount of information for your own personal digestion?  And then you do nothing with it.  Well, welcome to mine.

In the course of doing some genealogical research I started to wonder where my name-sake got her name, and then to also wonder about the popularity and the spread of the name LeEtta.  And so I poured through the census and made a map of LeEtta movement from the 1860 census to the 1940 census in 40 year increments.  It looks like we’re taking over the world, but really there are only 249 of 132 million people in 1940.  That’s like one in half a million.  🙂

1860LeEttaMap
Given name LeEtta/Leetta in the 1860 Census.

1900LeEttaMap
Given name LeEtta/Leetta in the 1900 Census.
1940LeEttaMap
Given name LeEtta/Leetta in the 1900 Census.

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