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Name Age Calculator
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#62I 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 go…
I'm not comfortable giving my old and new names, or my year of birth, BUT I can share that my first and last names before transition were very female (I've never met a guy with either of them) and my post transition first and last names are very male (although my first name often has female versions). All of my names have been family names, with minor spelling changes because of language changes as ancestors migrated to the U.S.
Old first name:
- as female: the peak, of over 20,000, was a decade after I was born, stayed there approximately 15 years and has had a slow decline since
- as male: actually follows a similar curve, but the peak was only over 100
Old middle name:
- as female: the peak, of over 10,000, was between the World Wars, went through a steady decline until a decade before my birth, when it went into a sharp decline
- as male: the peak, of over over 25, was a few years after peaking as a female name, then went through a steady decline until 20 years before my birth and has leveled out at 10+ a year
New first name:
- as male: first peak, of over 10,000, was around my birth, then went through a small dip and peaked again a couple decades later
- as female: similar to the male curve with the two peaks breaking 50 a year
New middle name:
- as male: the peak, of over 2,000, was between the World Wars, went through a sharp decline until just after WWII, when it leveled out for a couple of decades, then went through another sharp decline before leveling out around my birth.
- as female: extremely sporadic, mostly due to the low numbers of women getting this name; the range went from just over 20 in one sample year to none for almost 20 of the sample years
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#63I 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 go…
Actually, I'd say your parents were spot on with both your first and middle name, because middle names are usually picked in honor of someone in their or their parent's generation (usually a relative).
The other thing is for the "classiest" names (ie most fashionable) you want to be at the head of the trend not at the height of popularity as it's become "common" by then.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Weird, check out Brittany. http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Kathy is almost as tight of a peak: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... My point is, the tightness of the peak might have nothing to do with Ms Spears.
Spears' first name is Britney. That plot is a little more particular:
http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
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#65Oh http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
Think that first blip on 1990 is related to the Neo Geo?
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#66I 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 go…
Actually, I'd say your parents were spot on with both your first and middle name, because middle names are usually picked in honor of someone in their or their parent's generation (usually a relative). The other thing is for the "classiest" names (ie most fashionable) you want to be at the head of the trend not at the height of popularity as it's become "common" by then.
And, to me, having a modern middle name (Jessica) actually sounds out of place.
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#67Welp, I knew my Igbo name wouldn't be in the boy's name database. :/
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#68Many of the common traditional english names drop off around 1995. Tried a few to find what's taking up the slack. Jack[1] was an unexpected one. Lots of J names in general, but few that pick up around 95.
[1] http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
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#69My parents were ahead of the curve, apparently.
~25 when I was born, ~750 and climbing now.
If only I had a trust fund that looked like the growth curve on my name popularity...
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#70I 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 go…
I'm not comfortable giving my old and new names, or my year of birth, BUT I can share that my first and last names before transition were very female (I've never met a guy with either of them) and my post transition first and last names are very male (although my first name often has female versions). All of my names have been family names, with minor spelling changes because of language changes as ancestors migrated…
Hmm... I didn't even think about running my names as the other gender. I ran my old names as male and my new names as female.
I hadn't heard of any of them except my old middle name being gender-neutral, and even in that case, I've only ever heard of one woman with my old middle name (nobody I know, either; she's a famous actress). Kinda feel sorry for all the dudes out there named Amy (well, unless they're really trans girls, but that's statistically so unlikely)... at least boys named Jessica can go by Jessie.
Comparing across genders now, the patterns are actually similar across genders, just with fewer numbers. My old middle name though, for girls, is very spiky with lots of very short ups and downs, while as a boys' name, the graph was smoother. I wonder if that correlates with the release dates of a certain actress' movies. Also, by far and above the most common of the four across gender lines was my old first name... it was the only one that ever broke 300 (and only barely).