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Introduction: This one stunned me but perhaps will be no surprise to those of you who are under 30. Laura Wattenberg writes : I live in a state where a baby girl is more likely to be named Margaret than Nevaeh. Let me restate that: I live in the only state where a baby girl is more likely to be named Margaret than Nevaeh. Wow. But I guess you can’t really use the name Teragram for a baby girl, it will make it sound like she’s fat.
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Introduction: I haven’t linked to the Baby Name Wizard in awhile. . . . Laura Wattenberg takes a look at the question , “Does a hard-to-pronounce baby name hurt you?” Critical thinking without “debunking”—this is the way to go.
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Introduction: Good stuff , as always, from Laura Wattenberg.
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Introduction: John Tillinghast points us to this blog entry by Hilary Parker. Here’s what she found: Hey—nice graph! P.S. Those of you who are interested in this sort of thing should check out the Baby Name Wizard blog which is full of thoughtful, data-based explorations about names.
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Introduction: From Nathan Yau . I love this stuff. It’s just wonderful, a great set of visualizations on a great topic. Offhand, the only suggestions I have are to scale the graphs or indicate in some way the trends in the total popularity of each name (as it is, I wonder if some of the variation is arising from rarity), also to me the girl color looks a bit orangish and I’d go for something more purely pink. P.S. These graphs are pretty good too.
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Introduction: I haven’t linked to the Baby Name Wizard in awhile. . . . Laura Wattenberg takes a look at the question , “Does a hard-to-pronounce baby name hurt you?” Critical thinking without “debunking”—this is the way to go.
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Introduction: In our Cliff thread from yesterday, sociologist Philip Cohen pointed to his discussions in the decline in the popularity of the name Mary. One thing that came up was the traditional trendiness of girls’ names. So I thought I’d share my thoughts from a couple of years ago, as reported by David Leonhardt: Andrew Gelman, a statistics professor at Columbia and an amateur name-ologist, argues that many parents want their boys to seem mature and so pick classic names. William, David, Joseph and James, all longtime stalwarts, remain in the Top 20. With girls, Gelman says, parents are attracted to names that convey youth even into adulthood and choose names that seem to be on the upswing. By the 1990s, of course, not many girls from the 1880s were still around, and that era’s names could seem fresh again. This search for youthfulness makes girls’ names more volatile — and increasingly so, as more statistics about names become available and parents grow more willing to experiment
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Introduction: Ubs writes: I was looking at baby name data last night and I stumbled upon something curious. I follow the baby names blog occasionally but not regularly, so I’m not sure if it’s been noticed before. Let me present it like this: Take the statement… Of the top 100 boys and top 100 girls names, only ___% contain the letter __. I’m using the SSA baby names page, so that’s U.S. births, and I’m looking at the decade of 2000-2009 (so kids currently aged 4 to 13). Which letters would you expect to have the lowest rate of occurrence? As expected, the lowest score is for Q, which appears zero times. (Jacqueline ranks #104 for girls.) It’s the second lowest that surprised me. (… You can pause and try to guess now. Spoilers to follow.) Of the other big-point Scrabble letters, Z appears in four names (Elizabeth, Zachary, Mackenzie, Zoe) and X in six, of which five are closely related (Alexis, Alexander, Alexandra, Alexa, Alex, Xavier). J is heavily overrepresented, especial
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