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Name Age Calculator
- trumbitta2 11y agoSooo... Are there many American girls named after a typical old-style italian macho name? http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Gustavo http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- netrus 11y agoIf by many you mean about 100: Apparently yes.
- darkFunction 11y agoWow, 'Ace' is really taking off- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=ACE http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... 'Adolf' seems uniformly credited to just a few poor souls- http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=ADOLF http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- ra1n85 11y ago>Sorry, "Bort" is not in the boy's name database. Outrageous.
- jaryd 11y agoFor the uninitiated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99OWlAWeN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K99OWlAWeN4
- mason240 11y agoRobert'); DROP Table Students; was also not in the database.
- polysaturate 11y agoLittle Bobby Tables
- makeset 11y agoReference: https://xkcd.com/327/ https://xkcd.com/327/
- Toenex 11y agoMore interesting than it might first appear. If you try a name like 'Stanley' you can see the devastating effects of the war years. You also see a resurgence in the name 20 years or so later, I'd guess when people want to remember a parent or grandparent in their own child.
- thomasfl 11y agoSurprisingly accurate
- Enindu 11y agoIt says, "Sorry, Enindu is not in the boys names database".
- maxerickson 11y agoThe source omits names that have less than 5 occurrences from the published data: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html (So perhaps you aren't in the US and your name wouldn't show up in the source data, or perhaps you are in the US and your name is uncommon)
- Enindu 11y agoYup. I'm not from US. And also my name is uncommon too. Even in my country. You know what, I didn't see enyone who has my name so far. I think I have a pretty unique name..!
- berbc 11y agoOh http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=Neo http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- cstuder 11y agoOr this one: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Arya http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- 8568465458877 11y agohttp://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=ender http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- kidsthesedays 11y agohttp://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=jayden http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- DanKlinton 11y agoFor some reason in 2001, Osama named stopped being popular http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=osama http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Barak in 2008 became even more popular... Soon not so much :) http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=barak http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- rmxt 11y agoSpelling it as the president spells it -- Barack -- shows a jump from nonexistent to "something" right around 2009. I wouldn't go so far as to call it noise because it's more than just coincidence, but it's still only ~0.003% of the male population born that year. (60 births/(0.5*4,000,000 total births).
- rmason 11y agoYou don't think its as simple as people choosing one of the ten most popular names for a given year do you? I found it exceedingly accurate with most of the people for a given first name I know being born plus or minus five years of the peak for that name in popularity.
- DanBC 11y ago> You don't think its as simple as people choosing one of the ten most popular names for a given year do you? Maybe, but why do those names become popular? William, Harry, George and Charlotte are obvious (British royal babies) and other names have interesting rises and falls.
- matiasb 11y ago"Obama", "Britney"
- oaktowner 11y agoWeird, check out Brittany. http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=brittany http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- rmason 11y agoInteresting, check out Madonna. The name got a second peak thanks to MTV videos ;<) http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=madonna http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Or Elvis whose popularity as a first name looks like a roller coaster. http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=elvis http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- cbd1984 11y agoKathy is almost as tight of a peak: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=kathy http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... My point is, the tightness of the peak might have nothing to do with Ms Spears.
- maxerickson 11y agoSpears' first name is Britney. That plot is a little more particular: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=britney http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- Vintila 11y agoLooks like my mother was born in peak Suzie. What do they say happens to those who don't label their axis? I've forgotten...
- benpbenp 11y agoHa! I got my own name when I first landed on the site. For a second there I thought the real story was that they'd somehow exploited a third party cookie but it appears to be a coincidence.
- onion2k 11y agohttp://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=buzz http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Interestingly, "Buzz" seems to track events and anniversaries in the space race quite neatly. Toy Story had no impact.
- mickeyp 11y agoFunny how the curve fits historical incidents. Searching for "Adolf" and the name gains in popularity in the 1910s and 1920s; dips in the 1930s as Nazism rises; and nosedives in the early 1940s as WWII kicks off. Interesting. Contrarily, the name "Winston" jumps in the 1940s.
- kornakiewicz 11y agohttp://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=barack http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... I find this funny.
- madcaptenor 11y agoThis happens with presidential names in general. See Lyndon (http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=lyndon http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...) or Dwight (http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=dwight http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...).
- kornakiewicz 11y agoI know where it came from, I wonder why there's no evidence of Barack older than 10, i.e. Barack Obama.
- lifebeyondfife 11y ago'Sorry, "Bort" is not in the boys name database.'
- kuzmin 11y agoThe increase of "Alexander" starting from the mid-80s looks really weird: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=Alexander http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... It's easy to see why names such as "Buzz" have the curves that they have (space race), but it's hard to trace any event that influenced more common names. For example, check "Jacob", "Justin". Does anybody have an idea as to why these curves have this shape?
- nl 11y agoThe Jacob and Justin rises correlate very well with the baby-boomer generation beginning to have children. It's interesting to note that the increase in the use of Justin has a matching (if slightly lagging) increase in literature[1], while the increase in Jacob isn't[2]. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Justin&year_start=1800&year_end=2015&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CJustin%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Justin&year_st... [2] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jacob&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CJacob%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Jacob&year_sta...
- dm2 11y ago"Amy" is another interesting one, what influenced that? http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Amy http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... I just figured out that it shows a random one when you don't enter a query, that's cool. Other spikes: Linda, Jordan, Mason, Deborah, Beth, Paige, Laurie, Chloe, Megan, Stella, Stacey, Kim It seems like female names are much more likely to have sharp spikes in popularity verses male first names.
- kidsthesedays 11y agoJessica - http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=jessica http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Names (just like everything else) have fads. Fads come and go.
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- sgb_QQ 11y agoThis is cool. I used that same SSA data for a fun agency project for J&J about a year ago: http://hellomynamemeans.com/en/ http://hellomynamemeans.com/en/
- 300bps 11y agoTold me to come back on a modern browser with a snarky message. Guess iPhone 6 with latest iOS isn't modern.
- kidsthesedays 11y agoInfinite loop for me.
- k__ 11y agoYepp. Polling to the max...
- mywacaday 11y agoSome strange looking mortality on low volume names, I used Irish names, Male-Darragh, Female-Clodagh. E.g Clodagh goes from 13 to 5.5 between 2009-2010
- Rudism 11y agoI don't think a drop reflects mortality, only in popularity as a baby name--the graph is showing you how many new people with that name were added to the total pool over time.
- arcatek 11y agoFunny how Mael has won quite a lot of hype in the past years (it's still a rare name, sure, but it's much more common now than when I first ...acquired... it).
- rheotron 11y agoAnyone else think this is kind of odd? http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=ian http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- slazaro 11y agoGirls named Ian? Or the fact that there's a lot of variation? Because with such small numbers, there's going to be a lot of random noise.
- yellowapple 11y agoNot quite as odd as http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=John http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- hxmc 11y agoThanks Johnny Cash: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=Sue http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- yellowapple 11y agoPeculiarly, 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?Gender=M&Name=Susan http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- jasonhanley 11y agoThese should be normalized for the number of births per year.
- maxerickson 11y agoI think most people are more interested in the absolute numbers for each year. There aren't any conclusions being presented from the data, so it isn't a huge problem. It also doesn't vary so much: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005067.html
- rhiever 11y agoHere's another version that normalizes for births per year: http://rhiever.github.io/baby-name-explorer/ http://rhiever.github.io/baby-name-explorer/ Enjoy!
- jyotiska 11y agoThis is really interesting: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Khaleesi http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- tbomb 11y agoNo love for Sansa though
- impostervt 11y ago"The median living boy named Johnie was born around 1948 and ranges from 51 to 79 years old." This is what happens when you're #4...
- danielharan 11y agoHas anyone used this to get inferred stats on a database of people's names? I'd be especially interested in applications for e-commerce analytics.
- Raphmedia 11y agoVery accurate for mine!
- betaclass 11y agoI wish they wouldn't have curved/smoothed the graphs. Since it's by year, there are discrete points and values. When you curve a line it has implications for the underlying data, which in this case are incorrect.
- rhiever 11y agoI originally didn't smooth the data, but it looked way too jagged and crappy for many of the names. Ultimately, I erred on the side of aesthetics and sacrificed the ability to look up exact numbers in the graph. Rest assured, though, if you want the exact numbers you can download the underlying data of every graph with one of the links under the graph.
- mwexler 11y agoJeremiah (http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=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.
- cafard 11y agoHeaven help us, but that might have been the Three Dog Night song "Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog."
- cafard 11y agoAnother explanation, slightly more flattering to the parents, occurs to me: the popularity may owe something to the movie "Jeremiah Johnson", which came out about then.
- yellowapple 11y agoWhat 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.
- amyjess 11y agoI legally changed my name last year, so I have the fortune of having two sets of names to play with. Here are my observations (note that I'm not actually posting my deadname here, but I'll still post my thoughts on it): Old first name: My parents were spot on. I'm well within the typical age, and the median year was only four years off from my birth year. It had a very high spike in the 70s and 80s, and it's since gone down to 1970 levels and stayed there. Old middle name: On the other hand, my parents gave me an old man's name. The age range starts at 47, and I'm 30. It peaked in the early '60s and was a curiosity by the time I was born. New first name (Amy): I'm a little off here, but not by much. I'm only a year outside the typical range. When I was born, it had already been in decline for a few years, but it had far from bottomed out yet. New middle name (Jessica): Spot on. Median age is only three years away from my actual birth year, and I was born really close to the peak. Oddly enough, when I was putting together my new name, I originally wanted Jessica to be my first name, but I ended up changing my mind and making it my middle name because I liked Amy better. Shame it crashed so hard in the last few years.
- transman 11y agoI'm not comfortable giving my old and new names, or my year of birth, BUT I can share that my first and last names before transition were very female (I've never met a guy with either of them) and my post transition first and last names are very male (although my first name often has female versions). All of my names have been family names, with minor spelling changes because of language changes as ancestors migrated to the U.S. Old first name: - as female: the peak, of over 20,000, was a decade after I was born, stayed there approximately 15 years and has had a slow decline since - as male: actually follows a similar curve, but the peak was only over 100 Old middle name: - as female: the peak, of over 10,000, was between the World Wars, went through a steady decline until a decade before my birth, when it went into a sharp decline - as male: the peak, of over over 25, was a few years after peaking as a female name, then went through a steady decline until 20 years before my birth and has leveled out at 10+ a year New first name: - as male: first peak, of over 10,000, was around my birth, then went through a small dip and peaked again a couple decades later - as female: similar to the male curve with the two peaks breaking 50 a year New middle name: - as male: the peak, of over 2,000, was between the World Wars, went through a sharp decline until just after WWII, when it leveled out for a couple of decades, then went through another sharp decline before leveling out around my birth. - as female: extremely sporadic, mostly due to the low numbers of women getting this name; the range went from just over 20 in one sample year to none for almost 20 of the sample years
- kabdib 11y agoVernor is interesting :0)
- viiralvx 11y agoWelp, I knew my Igbo name wouldn't be in the boy's name database. :/
- karmakaze 11y agoMany of the common traditional english names drop off around 1995. Tried a few to find what's taking up the slack. Jack[1] was an unexpected one. Lots of J names in general, but few that pick up around 95. [1] http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=M&Name=Jack http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend...
- monknomo 11y agoMy parents were ahead of the curve, apparently. ~25 when I was born, ~750 and climbing now. If only I had a trust fund that looked like the growth curve on my name popularity...
- scholia 11y agoMuch as I admire Randy Olson, there's been a much better version of this around for at least 10 years: Baby Name Voyager. http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
- rhiever 11y agoThank you for the kind words. :-) Although that app you linked is a bit different - it's showing when names were popular over time. This app goes one step further and calculates how many of those people are still alive and makes a best guess at how old someone is based solely on their first name. I also made a version similar to the Baby Name Wizard that look solely at name popularity here: http://rhiever.github.io/baby-name-explorer/ http://rhiever.github.io/baby-name-explorer/ And I suppose it's just a matter of aesthetics for which one you prefer in that case. Cheers! r
- HeyLaughingBoy 11y agoTravis peaked first in 1980 which was when the famous Levi's commercial first aired. Would love to see someone correlate hit TV shows with popular names.