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Did FiveThirtyEight steal this idea from Business Insider? http://www.businessinsider.com/popular-girl-boy-names-2014-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/popular-g

• jonas21 12y ago
  They were probably both inspired by Social Security Administration's release of name data for 2013 a couple of weeks ago: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/2014/babynames2013-pr.html http://www.socialsecurity.gov/pressoffice/pr/2014/babynames2...
• personZ 12y ago
  This analysis has been done countless times by countless different people, so it seems a little presumptive to attribute it to one organization or author. Name data is available and is something that we all can relate to, so it gets an easy readership.