Tuesday, June 05, 2007
The Name Game
This is a pretty cool link - particularly for those of us trying to come up with a name for a new baby. You just type in the name and it gives you the name's rank per million babies since the 1880's. Needless to say, many of our group have not made it into the top 1,000 names in any decade. Guerin - nope. DuBose - nope. Reeves - nope. Legare - nope. Fordham, Pinckney - nope. I just don't get it! I thought these were pretty common names. I'm sure Idaho and Minnesota are loaded with them.
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Slow day at work :)
Nancy was extremely popular back in the 50s - not so much anymore. I guess I chose very uncommon names for both my boys. Well, uncommon to anyone living outside of our little bubble here...
We are pretty vanilla in our family-nicknames and formal are pretty popular! Betsy and Beth were actually huge in the 50s,60s and 70s.
Loved this!! May was big in the 1880's not a huge surprise and caroline was huge in the late 1800's and came back again in the 2000's..I did look up the name of our next girl, no I am NOT pregnant, and it has not been popular since hmmmm...1930. what does that say about us? :-)
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