Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Cool way to look at baby names

This website has a tool called the "Name Voyager" which displays the number of babies named a particular name over time stacked with similar names so you can see both the raw numbers of people with those names and the popularity trend. It's probably the coolest naming tool I've seen yet. You can easily see if a name is gaining or losing popularity.
One thing I've noticed is that the trend toward unique and different names is increasing, so the raw numbers and percentages of traditional names have plummeted. Sarema was way ahead of her time.
...and the popularity of Robert is falling like a homesick anvil.

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I'm gonna bring in that book on Monday for you. You know, the one that's going to catapult your daughter towards success.

12:57 AM, February 25, 2007  

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