>Sorry, "Bort" is not in the boy's name database. Outrageous.
Robert'); DROP Table Students; was also not in the database.
Name Age Calculator
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#52Some 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
I don't think a drop reflects mortality, only in popularity as a baby name--the graph is showing you how many new people with that name were added to the total pool over time.
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#53I wish they wouldn't have curved/smoothed the graphs. Since it's by year, there are discrete points and values. When you curve a line it has implications for the underlying data, which in this case are incorrect.
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#54Jeremiah (http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...) has an interesting rise in the 70s, but then disappears in the 80s (like so many things) but comes on strong again by the 2000s. The double humps doesn't seem to appear all that often, even clicking on the other examples in these HN comments, some of which appear to show spikes but are still normalish humps, not bimodal.
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#55This is really interesting: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
No love for Sansa though
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#56http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... I find this funny.
This happens with presidential names in general. See Lyndon (http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...) or Dwight (http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...).
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#58I legally changed my name last year, so I have the fortune of having two sets of names to play with.
Here are my observations (note that I'm not actually posting my deadname here, but I'll still post my thoughts on it):
Old first name: My parents were spot on. I'm well within the typical age, and the median year was only four years off from my birth year. It had a very high spike in the 70s and 80s, and it's since gone down to 1970 levels and stayed there.
Old middle name: On the other hand, my parents gave me an old man's name. The age range starts at 47, and I'm 30. It peaked in the early '60s and was a curiosity by the time I was born.
New first name (Amy): I'm a little off here, but not by much. I'm only a year outside the typical range. When I was born, it had already been in decline for a few years, but it had far from bottomed out yet.
New middle name (Jessica): Spot on. Median age is only three years away from my actual birth year, and I was born really close to the peak. Oddly enough, when I was putting together my new name, I originally wanted Jessica to be my first name, but I ended up changing my mind and making it my middle name because I liked Amy better. Shame it crashed so hard in the last few years.
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#59Jeremiah ( http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... ) has an interesting rise in the 70s, but then disappears in the 80s (like so many things) but comes on strong again by the 2000s. The double humps doesn't seem to appear all that often, even clicking on the other examples in these HN comments, some of which appear to show spikes but are still normalish humps, not bimodal.
Heaven help us, but that might have been the Three Dog Night song "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog."
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#60The 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.
Bob Green years ago wrote about going to the "Linda Hop", a convention of boomer women all named Linda. The article traced the name back to a song popular in the early 1950s. As far as male v. female, it seems more common to name sons after fathers than daughters after mothers.