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Hello and welcome to more or less on the BBC World Service. I'm Tim Harford. The British Royal Family has a new member, the Queen's great-granddaughter, Princess

Charlotte of Cambridge, and no sooner was Charlotte born than some absurd statistical claims

were being made about her. So here is Charlotte to talk about them. No, not the

princess silly. Here's Charlotte McDonald, a royal baby correspondent so uh... Charlotte welcome do you uh do you think

William and Kate named their baby after you?

Well I do walk past Buckingham Palace every day and I did meet Princess Anne once when I was working as a waitress

but actually in reality Charlotte are pretty plentiful. I'm the same age as Prince William and my

mum is always saying that Charlotte was the most popular girls

name the year I was born. Really? So your parents actually just as

conservative in their choices as the Royals are? Well I did go in fact check my

mother to be sure and it turns out there don't seem to be officially

published lists of most popular names dating back as far as my advanced age but

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