This is pretty fun. Basically a site called babynamewizard.com has come up with a really cool way to track the popularity of names over the last couple centuries. Ostensibly, it’s to help prospective parents research names, but what it is really fun for is searching names of you and your friends and seeing the rise and fall of their acclaim.
It’s very user friendly, and to my mind, very interestingly set up as a search/graph function. Have fun.
p.s. For those of you that know my real name, typing it in and observing its steady decline from its most popular date (like 1890 or so) to present day is pretty funny…
2 responses so far ↓
1 Bill Brasky // Jan 8, 2008 at 6:48 am
I am glad this is tagged with time travel, oddly appropriate. My name was only popular the year I was born. I am angry.
2 Mitch Martin // Jan 8, 2008 at 8:57 am
@Wonka
Name burn! Mine really peaked in the ’70s and has been on a steady decline since.
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