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Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by kahirsch »

aniham wrote: post #16

the ssa page of baby names is super interesting and a lot richer than this link alone: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ you can look up popularity of any name over the past 100+ years, top names in every year since the 1900s, some modest visualizations, etc

It's not obvious, but the raw data is downloadable from https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html

Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by rafram »

com2kid wrote: post #24
post-it wrote: post #9

I was looking for this and had to search for it - here's the page with names that increased in popularity and ones that stayed the same: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/rankchange.html

Mateo is apparently a very popular name that I've never heard of or seen anyone go by! Weird.

As in San Mateo. The Spanish equivalent of Matthew/Matt.

Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by TedDoesntTalk »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #15
fortran77 wrote: post #7

Jaxtyn? I googled it, and sure enough there are a lot of little Jaxtyn's running around.

If your parents named you that, you should be allowed to sue them when you turn 18.

Eh? What? Jackson? Oh, Jaxton. What? You spell it with a Y?

Multiply that by a few million interactions and there is Jaxtyn’s life. Every. Single. New person.

Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by shagie »

runlevel1 wrote: post #23

Funny how many names I'd assumed were common are, evidently, not popular at all anymore. For instance, I would have guessed Melissa (#372) and Brittany (#934) would have been at least in the top 100. They were probably just popular around my birth year and therefore I've been exposed to them a lot amongst my cohort.

Wolfram Alpha can show this quite well.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Melissa

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Brittany+&assumption=%7...

Or how about the most common male name - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Michael

Or Jennifer - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Jennifer - and if this song is something that is a "yea... I recall that" - https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k (There were four Jennifers on a small rural school bus that I took to school in the 80s)

Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by rippercushions »

usui wrote: post #17
zabzonk wrote: post #4

Well, "Karen" i guess is understandable, but "Denise" and "Carolyn" being unpopular seem a bit strange. Mind you, i have never liked my own names, so what do i know.

I feel really bad for people named Karen due to no fault of their own, as I've met a good amount of adults named Karen and heard jokes passed their way. I think it's extremely unfair that it turned into a meme depicting a caricature of a person. It's not even similar to a "Chad" which in guy-world is desirable to an extent. Just another casualty of meme culture, but who cares right?

Every generation has names like this, just ask any Dick or Adolf.

Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by jjtheblunt »

Turing_Machine wrote: post #15
fortran77 wrote: post #7

Jaxtyn? I googled it, and sure enough there are a lot of little Jaxtyn's running around.

If your parents named you that, you should be allowed to sue them when you turn 18.

i think you could, at age 18, just change your name to Jack.

Re: Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021

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Post by EdwardDiego »

Interesting to see Prince, Princess and Queen on there. In NZ, you're not allowed to use a title as a first name. No Prince, no calling your kid Sir, or Dame or Lady, and no calling your kid Justice.

But as it's only real titles, you go right ahead with Khaleesi.

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