The big winners from last week’s poll were Artemisia and Pimm.  (Technically, Meredith beat out Pimm by a handful of votes, but someone was kind enough to point out that Meredith has already been covered here.)  They’ll be featured on January 31 and February 1.

This week’s poll takes us right into the heart of February 2012.  I’ll follow last week’s approach, putting all of the names into one poll, and selecting the top two to cover.

Rui pointed something out on the AppMtn Facebook page.  The virtue of the polls is that they’re surfacing names that more people want to read about, and that’s generally a good thing.  And, of course, they’re absolutely necessary because otherwise?  I’d be scheduled into 2014 by now.

But they do tend to push the content to the center.  Not that I never write about popular, even common names.  I’ve covered Madison and Ava and James.  But would a wacky pick like Habakkuk ever make it through again?

This might not fix the problem, but for this week’s poll, I’m putting all the names in together regardless of gender, and I plan to blog about the top two.  You can still only vote once – and we’ll see what happens.  I might also try grouping names differently in the future, by level of obscurity rather than more obvious criteria.

So with that out of the way, please vote!

Editor’s note: Thanks to Sarah A. for pointing out the obvious – I’ve already written about Meredith!  Oops.  So the two top will still win, but if Meredith ranks in the top two, I’ll take the next one down the list.  But I’ll bring back Meredith as a rerun post either way, so she still wins.