Saturday, February 12, 2005
Name Popularity Over Time
--Jay at 01:57 PM--
This is the coolest toy! It charts the popularity of names over time. For instance, Sadie peaked in popularity in the 1900’s at 93, dropped out of the top 100o completely in the 1970’s, and is up to 195 as of 2003, the last year charted.
Jay peaked at 90 in the 1960’s, and is now at 350, but there are a bunch of boy and girl variants that have made it onto the chart recently. Deborah peak at 5 in the 1950’s, and is all the way down to 617 now.
I love how speedy the chart is in displaying the graphs as you type the names. I’ve been wasting time playing with it for most of an hour after finding it mentioned at Tigerhawk.