American first names, tracked to the federal reporting line.
A ROOM OF THE LIST — THE VANISHED
THE VANISHED
The names in this room were last reported above the federal line forty or more years ago. There are 19,612 of them. None are extinct; the word does not apply. Each had fewer than five recorded births in every year since its last appearance, which is all the record permits anyone to say. The room is arranged alphabetically, without flowers.
Notable holdings
Gay
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1983 — 43 YEARS
Dortha
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1985 — 41 YEARS
Floy
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1972 — 54 YEARS
Lue
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1986 — 40 YEARS
Blanch
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1984 — 42 YEARS
Hortense
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1977 — 49 YEARS
Gaye
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1977 — 49 YEARS
Hulda
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1981 — 45 YEARS
Myrtie
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1970 — 56 YEARS
Fay
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1977 — 49 YEARS
Sudie
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1985 — 41 YEARS
Clyde
BELOW THE FEDERAL REPORTING LINE SINCE 1978 — 48 YEARS
Last sightings, by decade
Vanished names by decade of last report. The 1980s bar covers 1980–1985 only (later years have not yet been gone forty years), and recent decades are censored: a name last seen in 1985 has had four decades to return; one last seen in 2005 is not in this room at all, yet.