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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Baby Names Over Time Monday, June 04, 2007 Baby Names Over Time Quite a nifty little application here. It uses a reactive graph to chart the relative popularity of male and female baby names in the US over time, and is full-configurable. You can type in names and it will show you all of them that start with as many letters as you input. Play around with it on just male or female, and try out popular names. It's good for reinforcing your own preconceptions. I've noted in that past that like every other guy within ten years of my age is named Mike or John, and sure enough, Michael was the #1 boys' name during the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, while John was in the top ten during the 60s, 70s, and 80s. The girl's chart does a good job explaining today's situation too, when half the women alive seem to be named Jen, Jenny, Jennifer, Jess, or Jessica. Jennifer was #1 in the 70s and #2 in the 80s, and Jessica was #1 in the 80s and 90s. And those don't even count the not-inconsiderable numbers of Jenas, Jennas, Jenifers, Jessies, and other variations on the theme. It's interesting to note the overall decline in all the name popularities. For the seeming glut of Jessicas and Jennifers and Michaels and Johns today, parents are far more imaginative in names than their grandparents were. Looking at the early decades of the 1900s, it seems like literally a quarter of male babies were named John, Michael, or William, or Robert. If you add up the top 4 most popular names today, you're still way under 10% of the total. That's probably got more to do with expanding minority populations and their attendant name variety than it is white people getting a great deal more imagination, though. Labels: babies, names Posted by: Flux # 5:18 PM Comments: haha its funny that "elmer" just about disappeared altogether in the 60s... presumably because of looney tunes I wonder how many names end up going out of style because they are so strongly associated with something stupid in pop culture... I can see the death of the name britney #: 1:32 AM posted by Anonymous I see someone has been reading Bill Simmons... #: 1:36 PM posted by Anonymous so does that mean if I'm horrible at remembering names, that I should try to use one of these top 10 names and be right about 10% of the time? #: 11:03 AM posted by Gura Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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