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What's weird is that we don't get any sense of popularity, and a lot of the names here are not very popular spellings. I suspect popularity would yield pretty

What's weird is that we don't get any sense of popularity, and a lot of the names here are not very popular spellings. I suspect popularity would yield pretty different insights, especially if you could see more "sounds like" patterns. For example, my name: Tristan, isn't on the list, but Tristyn is. Tristan is _much_ more common. I found this site that also provides some insight that I think is the same SSA data, that's relatively easy to play with: http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Tristan-name-popularity.html http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Tristan-name-popularity.html Ratios of boys:girls in 2018: - Tristan 84:1 3833 total - Tristyn 2:1 99 total Similarly: - Austyn: 342 total, 1:3 b:g ratio - Austin: 4778 total, 36:1 ratio It's still interesting, and fun to dive into the different ways you can look at it. It's like, the more "uncommon" the mispelling, the more people are willing to switch gender, perhaps?

andrewem 7y ago
I think that in your examples "Austyn" and "Tristyn", the POINT of the "y" replacing "i" is to signal that the name is feminine. Namely, you're having a girl but want to name her Austin, but not have her be assumed to be male. Therefore, roughly 40% of the time you choose Austyn with a "y" (if my calculations from your ratio are right; 85 girls Austyn, 129 girls Austin).
- mr_tristan 7y ago
  Could be, but I don't think it holds that consistently in the U.S., which is where this data is from. I'd still guess the less common the spelling, the more likely it's gender neutral, regardless of "gender flags": More popular, strongly feminine: http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sydney-name-popularity.html http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sydney-name-popularity.html Less popular, and used to be very popular male name, now mostly female: http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sidney-name-popularity.html http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sidney-name-popularity.html

andrewem 7y ago

I think that in your examples "Austyn" and "Tristyn", the POINT of the "y" replacing "i" is to signal that the name is feminine. Namely, you're having a girl but want to name her Austin, but not have her be assumed to be male. Therefore, roughly 40% of the time you choose Austyn with a "y" (if my calculations from your ratio are right; 85 girls Austyn, 129 girls Austin).

mr_tristan 7y ago
Could be, but I don't think it holds that consistently in the U.S., which is where this data is from. I'd still guess the less common the spelling, the more likely it's gender neutral, regardless of "gender flags": More popular, strongly feminine: http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sydney-name-popularity.html http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sydney-name-popularity.html Less popular, and used to be very popular male name, now mostly female: http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sidney-name-popularity.html http://www.ourbabynamer.com/Sidney-name-popularity.html