MellyH
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***Now that I have the names downloaded and the code written, let me know if you have any particular rankings you want me to do!***
So, it seems like a trend that the names that are getting popular now were popular 80-100 years ago, probably because enough time has passed that we don't associate our mums' and grandmothers' generation with them. I was trying to use NameVoyager to pick out names that were popular back then but less popular now, and it was slow going, so I ended up downloading the Social Security (USA) database of names going back to the 1880's and writing some code (I'm a scientist so I am writing code to play with data all day long) to rank the names. The metric that ended up giving me some fun results was sorting the relative strength of a name in 1910 versus 1970 (dividing the total number of births registered with that name in 1910 by the total number registered with that name in 1970). Here are my picks from the top 200 - I liked heaps of them, which is why I settled on those years. Let me know if you have any other years/rankings you want to see though:
'2' 'Dorothy'
'8' 'Margaret'
'12' 'Alice'
'17' 'Hazel'
'20' 'Marie'
'22' 'Grace'
'23' 'Evelyn'
'24' 'Clara'
'28' 'Ruby'
'29' 'Josephine'
'32' 'Eva'
'32' 'Mabel'
'33' 'Rose'
'35' 'Beatrice'
'39' 'Viola'
'48' 'Eleanor'
'50' 'Mae'
'51' 'Marion'
'57' 'Eva'
'59' 'Rosa'
'63' 'Stella'
'68' 'Violet'
'70' 'Cora'
'75' 'Marjorie'
'85' 'Genevieve'
'94' 'Sophie'
'98' 'Georgia'
'100' 'May'
'107' 'Rosie'
'108' 'Harriet'
'114' 'Marian'
'121' 'Adeline'
'122' 'Bonnie'
'124' 'Isabel'
'124' 'Isabelle'
'130' 'Dora'
'140' 'Eliza'
'149' 'Eloise'
'150' 'Madeline'
'154' 'Matilda'
'154' 'Rosalie'
'161' 'Lila'
'162' 'Adele'
'169' 'Edythe'
'177' 'Gwendolyn'
'177' 'Isabella'
'186' 'Eleanore'
'188' 'Gracie
So, it seems like a trend that the names that are getting popular now were popular 80-100 years ago, probably because enough time has passed that we don't associate our mums' and grandmothers' generation with them. I was trying to use NameVoyager to pick out names that were popular back then but less popular now, and it was slow going, so I ended up downloading the Social Security (USA) database of names going back to the 1880's and writing some code (I'm a scientist so I am writing code to play with data all day long) to rank the names. The metric that ended up giving me some fun results was sorting the relative strength of a name in 1910 versus 1970 (dividing the total number of births registered with that name in 1910 by the total number registered with that name in 1970). Here are my picks from the top 200 - I liked heaps of them, which is why I settled on those years. Let me know if you have any other years/rankings you want to see though:
'2' 'Dorothy'
'8' 'Margaret'
'12' 'Alice'
'17' 'Hazel'
'20' 'Marie'
'22' 'Grace'
'23' 'Evelyn'
'24' 'Clara'
'28' 'Ruby'
'29' 'Josephine'
'32' 'Eva'
'32' 'Mabel'
'33' 'Rose'
'35' 'Beatrice'
'39' 'Viola'
'48' 'Eleanor'
'50' 'Mae'
'51' 'Marion'
'57' 'Eva'
'59' 'Rosa'
'63' 'Stella'
'68' 'Violet'
'70' 'Cora'
'75' 'Marjorie'
'85' 'Genevieve'
'94' 'Sophie'
'98' 'Georgia'
'100' 'May'
'107' 'Rosie'
'108' 'Harriet'
'114' 'Marian'
'121' 'Adeline'
'122' 'Bonnie'
'124' 'Isabel'
'124' 'Isabelle'
'130' 'Dora'
'140' 'Eliza'
'149' 'Eloise'
'150' 'Madeline'
'154' 'Matilda'
'154' 'Rosalie'
'161' 'Lila'
'162' 'Adele'
'169' 'Edythe'
'177' 'Gwendolyn'
'177' 'Isabella'
'186' 'Eleanore'
'188' 'Gracie