aaronjbecker

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by aaronjbecker 5mo ago
interactive data toy to compare state and regional baby name popularity
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by aaronjbecker 5mo ago
the measurably whitest names according to the 2020 US Census
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by aaronjbecker 8mo ago
you can change start year, %male/female threshold, # names, and also view results combined by pronunciation (e.g. Jordan + Jordyn etc.)
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by aaronjbecker 8mo ago
algorithmically grouped, vote on pronunciations here: https://nameplay.org/tools/refinement/Kayden
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by aaronjbecker 8mo ago
Grouped by pronunciation. Each of these 152 spellings was given to at least 5 baby girls in a single year. Makayla is actually the most popular spelling overall.
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by aaronjbecker 1y ago
Written about a year ago-- but I've seen both D2 and Mermaid on HN today so I figured I'd share.
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by aaronjbecker 1y ago
Yeah there are a few names that become "unisex" only in the aggregate, with differently gendered usage across cultures-- Alexis is another I can think of, it's a girls' name in the US but a boys' name in most other
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Visualizing the most common unisex names in the US(nameplay.org)
38 points by aaronjbecker 1y ago|15 comments
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Young adult (18-24) parenthood fell sharply in every US state from 2010 to 2023(aaronjbecker.com)
2 points by aaronjbecker 1y ago|0 comments
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Mapping smoking rates by state with Matplotlib and geopandas(aaronjbecker.com)
1 points by aaronjbecker 1y ago|1 comments
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by aaronjbecker 1y ago
I have a follow-up post that covers "common" unisex names, which I arbitrarily defined as names with at least 25k births for both sexes. This one does have more of the names you were probably expecting to see: https://n
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by aaronjbecker 1y ago
I have been working on an algorithm to combine names with pronunciations that overlap, based on ARPAbet phoneme representations from CMU dict + generated by LLMs. The data is still messy, because "creative" spellings are hard for
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by aaronjbecker 1y ago
the data is not only US specific but also focuses on recent naming trends, with the first chart covering 2000-2024. In the US, Ashley has been overwhelmingly female since the late 1960s: https://nameplay.org/names/combi
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Ranking the most gender-neutral baby names in the US(nameplay.org)
2 points by aaronjbecker 1y ago|7 comments
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Can an LLM make "educated" guesses about name origins?(nameplay.org)
1 points by aaronjbecker 1y ago|1 comments
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by aaronjbecker 1y ago
Can an LLM speculate on name origins using the same kind of "when and where" data a human expert might use? Here's my attempt to find out. Or does this quest to produce less-sloppy name meaning content just add to the mountai