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Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by darkFunction » Fri, May 15, 2015, 9:41 AM UTC

Wow, 'Ace' is really taking off- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

'Adolf' seems uniformly credited to just a few poor souls- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by netrus » Fri, May 15, 2015, 9:48 AM UTC

trumbitta2 wrote: post #20

Sooo... Are there many American girls named after a typical old-style italian macho name? http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...

If by many you mean about 100: Apparently yes.

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by 8568465458877 » Fri, May 15, 2015, 10:16 AM UTC

cstuder wrote: post #7

berbc wrote: post #5

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

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

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

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by sgb_QQ » Fri, May 15, 2015, 10:16 AM UTC

This is cool. I used that same SSA data for a fun agency project for J&J about a year ago: http://hellomynamemeans.com/en/

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by mywacaday » Fri, May 15, 2015, 10:18 AM UTC

Some strange looking mortality on low volume names, I used Irish names, Male-Darragh, Female-Clodagh. E.g Clodagh goes from 13 to 5.5 between 2009-2010

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by nl » Fri, May 15, 2015, 10:32 AM UTC

kuzmin wrote: post #19

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?

The Jacob and Justin rises correlate very well with the baby-boomer generation beginning to have children.

It's interesting to note that the increase in the use of Justin has a matching (if slightly lagging) increase in literature[1], while the increase in Jacob isn't[2].

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Justin&year_st...

[2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jacob&year_sta...

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by arcatek » Fri, May 15, 2015, 10:45 AM UTC

Funny how Mael has won quite a lot of hype in the past years (it's still a rare name, sure, but it's much more common now than when I first ...acquired... it).