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Seems like a tendency to name software after female names from the victorian era. Interesting.

• riffraff 13y ago
  MaxDB, MySQL and MariaDB are all named after Monty's children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Widenius
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• nl 13y ago
  Maria was the 79th most popular female name in California in 2012 (the most recent year data is available for)[1]. Far from being a Victorian-era name, it was most popular in the 1960's, and remains more popular today than it was during the Victorian era[2]. However, it was a popular name in literature during the Victorian era[3], with mentions hitting a peak in 1908 (technically that was the Edwardian era, but close enough). Depending on your smoothness settings, it does appear that Maria was actually more commonly mentioned in 1999 than in 1908, though. Interestingly, there is a dramatic dip in mentions during the 1920s. I don't have a good theory as to why this was. [1] http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi http://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/namesbystate.cgi [2] http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/maria http://www.babynamewizard.com/baby-name/girl/maria [3] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Maria&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CMaria%3B%2Cc0# https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Maria&year_sta...