Well, "Karen" i guess is understandable, but "Denise" and "Carolyn" being unpopular seem a bit strange. Mind you, i have never liked my own names, so what do i know.
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#52> Ryker Yes, Captain?
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#53What is with these awful bastardized spellings of traditional names? Jaxtyn? Xzavier? Man these kids are going to grow up with some stupid-looking names and spending their whole life correcting people on pronounciation.
I'm going to take a not completely insane guess and say that it's an odd outcome of everyone going by their personal (usually first) name. Instead of 10 Jasons, each with a different family name, you get 10 different spellings of Jason and never know the family names.
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#54I figured Karen would be at the top by a mile.
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#55Interesting to see Prince, Princess and Queen on there. In NZ, you're not allowed to use a title as a first name. No Prince, no calling your kid Sir, or Dame or Lady, and no calling your kid Justice. But as it's only real titles, you go right ahead with Khaleesi.
In Finland, the authorities probably would strike down a good chunk of this list down due to the naming laws.
There was actually a case where the authorities rejected the name "Lucifer" for a person due to its negative affiliations with Satan. It was taken to administrative court and Lucifer won.
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#56Interesting to see Prince, Princess and Queen on there. In NZ, you're not allowed to use a title as a first name. No Prince, no calling your kid Sir, or Dame or Lady, and no calling your kid Justice. But as it's only real titles, you go right ahead with Khaleesi.
Does this extend to foreign titles? I know a lot of Koenigs, Koonings, Kiralys, etc.
Edit: Not to mention Shah and Kaur.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel really bad for people named Karen due to no fault of their own, as I've met a good amount of adults named Karen and heard jokes passed their way. I think it's extremely unfair that it turned into a meme depicting a caricature of a person. It's not even similar to a "Chad" which in guy-world is desirable to an extent. Just another casualty of meme culture, but who cares right?
Every generation has names like this, just ask any Dick or Adolf.
I'm not sure if the name "Karen" has suffered such cross-generational damage as "Adolf" or "Dick".
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#58Interesting to see Prince, Princess and Queen on there. In NZ, you're not allowed to use a title as a first name. No Prince, no calling your kid Sir, or Dame or Lady, and no calling your kid Justice. But as it's only real titles, you go right ahead with Khaleesi.
Lese-majeste in kiwi land in the year of our lord 2023. Most peculiar.
Can I at least name my tui lady and my hamster justice?
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#59Funny how many names I'd assumed were common are, evidently, not popular at all anymore. For instance, I would have guessed Melissa (#372) and Brittany (#934) would have been at least in the top 100. They were probably just popular around my birth year and therefore I've been exposed to them a lot amongst my cohort.
I, too, thought Melissa was one of the most common names out there. The Wolfram Alpha link helpfully provided below shows that it peaked right before I was born, and is currently almost negligible.
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Wolfram Alpha can show this quite well. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Melissa https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Brittany+&assumption=%7... Or how about the most common male name - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Michael Or Jennifer - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Jennifer - and if this song is something that is a "yea... I recall that" - https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k (There were four Jennifers on…
Yes! There used to even be a site that would predict your age by your first name, with scary (to the user) accuracy. Funny how names trend... edit: This might have been it, trying to find it within edit window https://randalolson.com/name-age-calculator/
One of the neat visulizations of the baby names is a "Bubbled" one from a number of years ago.
Girls: https://youtu.be/qVh2Qw5KSFg
Boys: https://youtu.be/WQv99sEPDsw
The thing about this is that it shows that its not some other name becoming dominant, but rather that names are becoming more distinct - fewer children born with a certain given name each year.
For example, 1997 (the last year of Michael being the most common boy name) it only had 1.88% of total births - while in 1967, Michael accounted for 4.63% of total births.
Girl name popularity changes more rapidly than boy names.
The other "this is kind of interesting" is that similar names (e.g. names that start with an L) have similar popularity.
https://namerology.com/baby-name-grapher/
You can see the "less common names are more common" with the shape of the graph there since the SSA data is only for the 1000 most common names. That the total is smaller indicates that there are more names beyond the 1000 most common that are becoming more prevalent overall.
That tool lets you clearly see that "Luke" and "Lucas" have a similar shape. Michael and Michelle (F) had a similar peak too.
Another interesting one to look at is the name "Leslie".