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The 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:/
by kuzmin 11y ago
The 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.
- Flenser 11y agoLittle Women apparently: http://nameberry.com/babyname/Amy http://nameberry.com/babyname/Amy The other names show similar shapes: Meg: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Meg http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Jo: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Jo http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... Beth: http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gender=F&Name=Beth http://rhiever.github.io/name-age-calculator/index.html?Gend... The second bump for Meg could be due to Meg Ryan?
- cafard 11y agoBob Green years ago wrote about going to the "Linda Hop", a convention of boomer women all named Linda. The article traced the name back to a song popular in the early 1950s. As far as male v. female, it seems more common to name sons after fathers than daughters after mothers.
- SloopJon 11y agoAmy and Sarah were two of the most popular girl's names when I was growing up. My wife dug in her heels pretty early in the pregnancy for a name that I later learned was a character on a TV show. Judging by the site, she's not the only one. The peak is still under a hundred, so not as embarrassing as, say, characters from 90210.
- maxerickson 11y agoThe spike starts before the show aired , but some of the popularity probably came from Family Ties: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Ties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Ties