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Popular names by decade are determined the same way we determine the popularity of a name during a single year. We count the number of occurrences of each name during the decade, and then rank them in order of decreasing frequency. Rank 1 is assigned to the name with the highest number of occurrences, rank 2 to the name with the next highest, and so on.