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That is so cool. I kept entering my kids names. I'm not original because all four were in there,and fairly popular.
Big huge jump in both Emilys and Abigails in the recent years. Daniel is going down in popularity. Natalie has had peaks and valleys.
Adrian really took off in the 70's. Rocky was released in 1976. (I,incidentally, was born in 1971, but put up with "Yo, Adrian!" all through my school days.)
Edit: Too much fun. Look at Kimberly. Non-existant before 1940 - jumped way up there, leveled off and now spiraling downward. Talk about your trendy names!
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I could play with this all day. All of my family's first names, including mine, were near their peak at the time we were born. Interesting. And then there's my middle name, which exactly 4 people in the history of the earth have had. Oh well.
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Ick. Apparently the more popular spelling of my name has got trendy in the last five years. At least I've got the weird unpopular spelling of it, but still...
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now i'm upset, i want to name my first son Isaiah. i thought that was original. check it out, it's spiked in the past 10 years. *tear*
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Cecily isn't even in there. That's one thing I hate about my name. I never could bug my parents to buy me a grocery store mug or little license plate or keychain...because my name was never in the bunch. *sigh*
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Alia, Aleah, Aaliyah, and Aliyah were all there but my name wasn't. At least my spelling is still somewhat unique. Posts: 378 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Awilda was huge for a while. I have never, ever in my life heard that name before or anything remotely like it. What a big rock I live under.
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You can tell it's Friday and our big project is over. I showed my boss that site and he just came by to say he's been playing with it for the past hour and printing out the graphs for his wife and children on the color printer.
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quote: There is a trend back towards Old Testament names. In addition traditional Irish and Jewish names have skyrocketed in popularity the last two decades.
Try Ian, Ethan, Connor, Fiona, etc.
Very true. My name (which is Welsh) is evidence of that, though my sister's name (which is Irish) peaked in the 70s and has gone down ever since.
As a side note, I'm deeply, deeply amused by the relatively sudden peak of Ariel in the 90s. Little Mermaid, anyone?
As another side-note, Michael is apparently an incredibly popular name since about the 1940s on.
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Born in '68 and my name was #1 for the 70's.
My poor brother was born in '70 and he got #49 for his name: George. He disliked it so much he changed it legally a couple of years ago to Christian, which wasn't popular when he was born but is #24 now.
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Born in 87, and my name was #1 in the 70s and #2 in the 80s... its dropped to #31 now though...
geez, my parents were really origional (though, my sister's name was only ranked 9th when she was born, down from 1st in 1900...)
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