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Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by yellowapple »

hxmc wrote: post #30

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

Peculiarly, there were dozens of instances of boys named Sue prior to Shel Silverstein writing "A Boy Named Sue", which makes me suspect that the song in question might very well have been a true story.

Curiously, the popularity of naming boys "Susan" [0] also peaked more than half a decade before the song was published. ("Sue", in contrast, peaked even earlier in the mid-40's, though it seems it made a comeback in the late-80's).

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

Re: Name Age Calculator

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Post by yellowapple »

mwexler wrote: post #54

Jeremiah ( 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.

What surprised me is that quite a few old-timey-sounding, probably-Biblical names ("Jebediah", "Ezekiel", "Jeremiah", "Abraham", "Noah") were either practically non-existent or otherwise rather unpopular 50 years (and further) back from the present.

Re: Name Age Calculator

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madcaptenor wrote: post #56
kornakiewicz wrote: post #16

http://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... ).

I know where it came from, I wonder why there's no evidence of Barack older than 10, i.e. Barack Obama.
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