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Name Age Calculator

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Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by rmason »

oaktowner wrote: post #11
matiasb wrote: post #8

"Obama", "Britney"

Weird, check out Brittany. http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

Interesting, check out Madonna. The name got a second peak thanks to MTV videos ;http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

Or Elvis whose popularity as a first name looks like a roller coaster.

http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

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Post by benpbenp »

Ha! I got my own name when I first landed on the site. For a second there I thought the real story was that they'd somehow exploited a third party cookie but it appears to be a coincidence.

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Post by mickeyp »

Funny how the curve fits historical incidents. Searching for "Adolf" and the name gains in popularity in the 1910s and 1920s; dips in the 1930s as Nazism rises; and nosedives in the early 1940s as WWII kicks off. Interesting.

Contrarily, the name "Winston" jumps in the 1940s.

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Post by DanBC »

rmason wrote: post #6

You don't think its as simple as people choosing one of the ten most popular names for a given year do you? I found it exceedingly accurate with most of the people for a given first name I know being born plus or minus five years of the peak for that name in popularity.

> You don't think its as simple as people choosing one of the ten most popular names for a given year do you?

Maybe, but why do those names become popular? William, Harry, George and Charlotte are obvious (British royal babies) and other names have interesting rises and falls.

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Post by kuzmin »

The increase of "Alexander" starting from the mid-80s looks really weird: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

It's easy to see why names such as "Buzz" have the curves that they have (space race), but it's hard to trace any event that influenced more common names. For example, check "Jacob", "Justin". Does anybody have an idea as to why these curves have this shape?

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