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Names that decreased in popularity from 2020 to 2021
- echelon 4y agoEdit: Fully sortable list: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hAMZQ480ohpHM6Q2EvVaBvB7L7psOiTU0wjUcK8_Qc4 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hAMZQ480ohpHM6Q2EvVa... - Why is this not sortable [1]? One table with the following columns: Name, Gender, Rank 2020, Rank 2021, Delta. [1] (Yes, I know you can copy/paste into a spreadsheet. This presentation is so close yet so /r/mildlyinfuriating.)
- TylerE 4y agoVery hard to make that sort of thing fully accessible.
- zabzonk 4y agoWell, "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.
- mpolichette 4y agoOh, come on now, Zabzonk is a great name
- zabzonk 4y agoi know, it's actually from a jack vance novel - if only it was my real one...
- usui 4y agoI 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?
- rippercushions 4y agoEvery generation has names like this, just ask any Dick or Adolf.
- Hamuko 4y agoI'm not sure if the name "Karen" has suffered such cross-generational damage as "Adolf" or "Dick".
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- anotherevan 4y agoWell I never thought my name would ever rank high enough in popularity to even be on the table (although there are at least two of us on Hacker News) but it apparently dropped by eleven. I'm strangely proud of that.
- fortran77 4y agoJaxtyn? I googled it, and sure enough there are a lot of little Jaxtyn's running around.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoIf your parents named you that, you should be allowed to sue them when you turn 18.
- TedDoesntTalk 4y agoEh? 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.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoi think you could, at age 18, just change your name to Jack.
- Beltalowda 4y agoUnfortunately some countries don't allow you to change your name :-/ But in the US, yeah, it's fairly easy.
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- zabzonk 4y agobut where the heck did it originate from?
- knicholes 4y agoAlmost certainly Utah.
- readthenotes1 4y agomaybe they didn't know how to spell Xzaviar and this was the best they could do?
- joshthecynic 4y ago[dead]
- post-it 4y agoI 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 https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/rankchange.html
- caseyross 4y agoWould be much more interesting to see absolute numbers compared instead. My conjecture is that Mason is the biggest YoY decrease (11 -> 18), followed by Abigail and Michael (both 12 -> 17). The counts elsewhere on the website show: - Mason: 10,075 babies -> 9,040 babies (down 1,035) - Abigail: 7,874 babies -> 6,938 babies (down 936) - Michael: 9,783 babies -> 9,041 babies (down 742)
- madcaptenor 4y agoI have trouble with this idea that “Michael” is only #17, as a Michael born in 1983.
- papandada 4y agoBorn in 1979, Mike's required last names/initials in all my classes
- madcaptenor 4y agoI remember having some advanced math class where there were maybe 15 of us, of whom three were Mike and three were girls. (IIRC, there are more CEOs of large companies named John than women.)
- cafard 4y agoSome years ago, there was a post about a conference that had more speakers named Bryan than it had woman speakers.
- aniham 4y agothe ssa page of baby names is super interesting and a lot richer than this link alone: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/ 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
- kahirsch 4y agoIt's not obvious, but the raw data is downloadable from https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html
- genghisjahn 4y agoSay your name right D-nice. Wonder if k&p had anything to do with that. (edit: typos)
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- hackitup7 4y agoInsubordinate and churlish of you to bring that up, A-a-ron.
- madcaptenor 4y agoIf they’re not going to show the raw data I suspect it would make more sense to show the ratio of the ranks.
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- runlevel1 4y agoFunny 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.
- shagie 4y agoWolfram Alpha can show this quite well. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Melissa https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Melissa https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Brittany+&assumption=%7B%22C%22%2C+%22Brittany%22%7D+-%3E+%7B%22GivenName%22%7D https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Brittany+&assumption=%7... Or how about the most common male name - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Michael https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Michael Or Jennifer - https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=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 https://youtu.be/1nN_5kkYR6k (There were four Jennifers on a small rural school bus that I took to school in the 80s)
- silisili 4y agoYes! There used to even be a site that would predict your age by your first name, with scary (to the user) accuracy. Funny how names trend... edit: This might have been it, trying to find it within edit window https://randalolson.com/name-age-calculator/ https://randalolson.com/name-age-calculator/
- shagie 4y agoOne of the neat visulizations of the baby names is a "Bubbled" one from a number of years ago. Girls: https://youtu.be/qVh2Qw5KSFg https://youtu.be/qVh2Qw5KSFg Boys: https://youtu.be/WQv99sEPDsw https://youtu.be/WQv99sEPDsw The thing about this is that it shows that its not some other name becoming dominant, but rather that names are becoming more distinct - fewer children born with a certain given name each year. For example, 1997 (the last year of Michael being the most common boy name) it only had 1.88% of total births - while in 1967, Michael accounted for 4.63% of total births. Girl name popularity changes more rapidly than boy names. The other "this is kind of interesting" is that similar names (e.g. names that start with an L) have similar popularity. https://namerology.com/baby-name-grapher/ https://namerology.com/baby-name-grapher/ You can see the "less common names are more common" with the shape of the graph there since the SSA data is only for the 1000 most common names. That the total is smaller indicates that there are more names beyond the 1000 most common that are becoming more prevalent overall. That tool lets you clearly see that "Luke" and "Lucas" have a similar shape. Michael and Michelle (F) had a similar peak too. Another interesting one to look at is the name "Leslie".
- pdntspa 4y agoWhat is with these awful bastardized spellings of traditional names? Jaxtyn? Xzavier? Man these kids are going to grow up with some stupid-looking names and spending their whole life correcting people on pronounciation.
- woodruffw 4y agoI think a lot of it is Mormons[1]. [1]: https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1406/ https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1406/
- hackitup7 4y agoIt's going to be even better, we'll get to see situations like Justice Jaxtyn leading the supreme court. Then again, names change over time. Only a matter of time before some poor kid is getting bullied because his parents named him an ancient millennial name like Steve.
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- cptnapalm 4y agoI'm going to take a not completely insane guess and say that it's an odd outcome of everyone going by their personal (usually first) name. Instead of 10 Jasons, each with a different family name, you get 10 different spellings of Jason and never know the family names.
- buildsjets 4y agoOne less “X Æ A-Xii” was born in 2021 vs 2020.
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- anon7725 4y agoI’m curious about variant spellings for names (ie Jason / Jaycen). When did it start and for what purpose? 19th/20th century immigration led to variant spellings as old-world names were recorded differently depending on the ear of the immigration agent.
- moneywoes 4y agoSurprised no Karen
- metaphor 4y agoIncidentally ranked #1091 for 2021; down 263 YoY from #828.
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- TedDoesntTalk 4y ago> Ryker Yes, Captain?
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- EdwardDiego 4y agoInteresting 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.
- Hamuko 4y agoIn Finland, the authorities probably would strike down a good chunk of this list down due to the naming laws. There was actually a case where the authorities rejected the name "Lucifer" for a person due to its negative affiliations with Satan. It was taken to administrative court and Lucifer won.
- friendlyHornet 4y agoHail Lucifer! \m/
- TazeTSchnitzel 4y agoI feel sorry for the guy whose name was Jihad, but when he moved to Sweden (seeking asylum I think?) his name got misspelled on the paperwork as Jehad. He wasn't allowed to fix it later because “it might cause suffering to the person bearing the name”.
- woodruffw 4y agoDoes this extend to foreign titles? I know a lot of Koenigs, Koonings, Kiralys, etc. Edit: Not to mention Shah and Kaur.
- ramphastidae 4y agoAlexa at #7 for women. Poor Alexen.
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- bstar77 4y agoI figured Karen would be at the top by a mile.