Baby Name Wizard
 

This is a cool site, especially the historical information in the graph.

hxxp://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

So I wonder who has the lowest rank..

For the decade I was born, I'm 217. For last year it is 507.

Oddly enough, D'Brickashaw doesn't seem to show up.

I believe Dickie Noles was the last human being officially named Dickie or Dick, and Peter is at an all-time low ranking of 161.

Apparently, name-related teasing at school taught us all a very important lesson we did not forget when we had our own kids.

I'm at 127 for the year 2005. All time high was ranked 45 in 1950s!

oh yeah 110 in the decade I was born.

I haven't been happy about the fact that we inadvertently went with popular names for both of our girls. It never even dawned on us until we started hearing the names everywhere after they were born. Caitlin in 1999, Mackenzie in 2004. Ugh. Maybe one of them will be OK switching to D'Brickashaw.

Go with Fergiliscious.

Jesus was 67th in 2003!

Jeremy was hugely popular in the 70's and 80's, but I guess Pearl Jam killed my name 'cause it went WAY down in the 90's and this decade...

What's funny is that I actually searched for D'Brickashaw before I saw this post. :D

WTF? It's blocked at my office.

mine is 10th in my decade of birth, and 10th in 2005.

That is curious. I looked up my name (Stephen) and it was sitting at 1000 for the early decades than all of a sudden, it skyrocketed in the 30s and peaking in the 50s and 60s (ranked around #20). Then it started plummeting back down to where it was before the spike. Same thing happened for "David" (except that it reach #2 in the 50s and 60s). Any ideas why?

re: Stephen -- I have no idea
re: David -- I wonder if David Eisenhower (Dwight's son & the eventual namesake of "Camp David") created a short surge in popularity. That's not uncommon for names of well-known children to create an uptick.

Mine peaked at 28 in the 1950s and 30 in the 1960s, and is at 360 for 2005.

Mine "peaked" in the 1880s at #528, then rapidly fell, falling right out of the top 1000 in 1930 and has yet to surface again.

My daughter's name Lily was popular back at the turn of the century then fell off the list. Strangely enough she was born in 2000 right before it started to surge and it currently sits at 39.

Yeah, it IS tough being a trendsetter.

I looked my son's name (Sean) and found that one puzzling too. It's been a very popular name the last few decades but before 1930s, it was non-existent. What did they do, invent that name in 1930s? I guess they didn't count Irish babies born before that.

So... you're, like, under 6 years old?


:)

Who would have guessed that that the name "Abraham" is more popular now that at any time since at least the 1880s?

I wasted way too much time with this thing.

It's interesting to see names that come out of nowhere to become hugely popular only to fade away. Two good examples of this are Lisa and Jennifer.

Adolf seems to have completely fallen off the chart.

Mine - popular in the 1900's at 272 and last year - 582.

Our son's name was most popular last year at 61. Our daughter ranked 403 in the 90's when it was most popular.

Antmeister was 19 in the 90's when it was most popular.

Another thing that is interesting is looking up popular names based on celebs/politicians/hurricanes, etc., and seeing how they influence things. Katrina moved up slightly in 2005; I wonder where it lands in 2006?

Or, look at the President's names - notice how Herbert took a nosedive in the 30s. Or look up Dylan and Jordan and notice the obvious spikes.

This thing is like a history lesson.

Aw man, you beat me out for least popular name!

What was it in the year you were born?

I would compare that to the drop of Seamus (I'd check, but it's blocked at work)

Interesting stuff...

Brandon (11th most popular in the 1990s)
Dylan (ranked 19th in 2003 and 2004)

I guess Bob and Luke Perry have more staying power than Jason Priestley.


Chandler (rank in the 80s: 792; rank in the 90s: 232)
Phoebe (not on chart between 60s and 80s; ranked 407 in 2004)


Mariah (ranked 554 in the 80s; ranked 79 in the 90s)
Brittany (went from 21 to 7 from the 80s to the 90s)
Celine (unranked until the 90s)

That site is an amazing time waster mainly looking for interesting trends. One that I noticed, that is pretty obvious, is the growth in hispanic names such as Juan or Jorge. Jorge even passed its English spelling (George) this year!

The blog for this site is a fascinating read, too.

Now I think this is flawed. Seamus did not appear until the 1990s. I think anything before 1980, they're using very incomplete samples.

In the 70's, my name was 383

Damn, you beat me there too.

I wonder what's behind the sudden popularity of Aidan. Surely it can't be The Mighty Quinn?

It might just be the gaining popularity of the "-an, -on, -in" names like Ethan, Benjamin, Jonathon, Brandon, Christian, Justin, Austin, Dylan, etc.

Oh, and now I guess we can add Jayden to the list...

lol

I've always been called by my middle name so that's what I used (Lorena). My first name (Elva) was 184 in the 1900's and seems to have died out in the 70's (not in the top 1000).


Maybe Sex and the City? I know a few females that loved that guy.

Aidan was a very popular, likable guy on Sex in the City. I think that accounts entirely for what got it up to the tipping point.

Aidan Quinn was on the show, or a character by that name? Never watched it, so I have no clue.

Dodgerchick:

Check out the blog on that site. The "Antique or forgery, part 2" part mentions your name in the context of a discussion of antique name revivals. I'll warn, you, though, the author isn't kind (in passing).

The character Aidan was played by actor John Corbett, he was very charming and sooo dreamy


Alright, if I must...

I didn't mean to check it out for that specifically, but the article is pretty interesting, and given your name, I thought it might interest you.

That's the dude from Northern Exposure who now mainly does truck commercial voice-overs (I think that's his voice I recognized), right?

Haha. No wonder I was never called by that name.


Yeah, he was on Northern Exposure, but don't know about the truck commercials - don't really pay attention to them. He was also on "My Big Fat Greek Wedding".

I vaguely remember MBFGW, so I guess I saw him in that.

The thing that stood out to me about the truck commercials is that when I recognized the voice, I thought he was an interesting choice and assumed it was because he was identified with Northern Exposure as a "rugged guy" - which made sense for them to wan him to do a truck commercial voice-over. But given that those commercials ran not so long ago, it may have had more to do with his part on SatC, and I was just oblivious to his regained popularity.

I guess the target audience for the truck commercials is vastly different than the target audience for SitC.

am I the only one who reads the title of this thread as being "Baby named Wizard" and thinks "what kind of parent would name their kid "Wizard?"?

yes, ah well...

FM

The pop singer is Britney, though...

My name was a little above 150 in the decade I was born, and now is in the low 90s. The leading contenders for our boys' names are in the 30s and 60s for 2005.

Odd. I expected Seamus to drop as Sean rose. I do think "traditional" names have become trendy over the past decade or two.

I like to think of myself as "old school" ;)

Frank has gone from top 10-top 20 in the 1880s thru 1930s into the 200s nowadays.

SI

I don't know anybody else called Groundhog so I can see where you're coming from.

My name and it's exact spelling (Daryll) doesn't show up in any top 1000 in any decade. Cool.

Daryl shows up heavy in the late 60s.