"The median living boy named Johnie was born around 1948 and ranges from 51 to 79 years old."
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#42The 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 spike starts before the show aired , but some of the popularity probably came from Family Ties:
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#43These should be normalized for the number of births per year.
I think most people are more interested in the absolute numbers for each year. There aren't any conclusions being presented from the data, so it isn't a huge problem. It also doesn't vary so much:
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#44>Sorry, "Bort" is not in the boy's name database. Outrageous.
For the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99OWlAWeN4
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#45It says, "Sorry, Enindu is not in the boys names database".
The source omits names that have less than 5 occurrences from the published data:
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
(So perhaps you aren't in the US and your name wouldn't show up in the source data, or perhaps you are in the US and your name is uncommon)
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#46Oh http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
For some reason in 2001, Osama named stopped being popular http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Barak in 2008 became even more popular... Soon not so much :) http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Spelling it as the president spells it -- Barack -- shows a jump from nonexistent to "something" right around 2009. I wouldn't go so far as to call it noise because it's more than just coincidence, but it's still only ~0.003% of the male population born that year. (60 births/(0.5*4,000,000 total births).
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#48Has anyone used this to get inferred stats on a database of people's names? I'd be especially interested in applications for e-commerce analytics.
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#49Very accurate for mine!
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#50The 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?
"Amy" is another interesting one, what influenced that? http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... I just figured out that it shows a random one when you don't enter a query, that's cool. Other spikes: Linda, Jordan, Mason, Deborah, Beth, Paige, Laurie, Chloe, Megan, Stella, Stacey, Kim It seems like female names are much more likely to have sharp spikes in popularity verses male first names.
Little Women apparently: http://nameberry.com/babyname/Amy
The other names show similar shapes:
Meg: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Jo: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Beth: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
The second bump for Meg could be due to Meg Ryan?