When Was Your Name Popular?
 

It seems that "Daniel" (from the Hebrew dan, judge/king/ruler and el, God, taken to mean "God is my judge") was popular circa 540BC among Hebrew prophets living in Babylon. Hmmm, I'd have never guessed.

Thanks for the link. :)

That rocks, Curt! For some reason it fascinates me, I was playing w/ it for quite a while. Thanks. :cool:

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-Z-man.

livin in the past
 

Looks like my name was more popular arount the early 1900's, maybe thats why I have an old car.

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don't worry, Zee. my name in its German spelling didn't come up either. and the US spelling hit its peak in the 20s and rocketed downward ever since. I guess you could say my stock tanked and never recovered :D

Bryan was #51 in 1980, #63 in 2003.

Napoleon was #506 in the 1900s... it's all downhill from there, it looks like Naomi is making a comeback...

My name "Christopher" was #2 in the 1980s right behind Michael and that was actually my mother's other choice.

My friend's first name is Christopher and his middle name is Michael, so he had 'em both locked up :)

hmm...I peaked in the 60's. How appropriate.

Michael: #1 in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's...
This will go along way in helping feed my ego!

Wow, pretty cool and entertaining.

I guess baby-name-wise my parents were real innovators in the 60's...Christopher, Michael and James. Good Catholic/American names without a doubt. But somebody calls across the room, and 5 heads turn...

Names
 

My name peaked in 1930 at slightly over one per thousand (the bottom of the barrel) and declined steadily after - for good reason.

Wow! My name comes up. I imagine this was how Steve Martin felt in "The Jerk" when he found himself in the phone book.

.. . and you can pick-up your souvenir licence-plate key-fob at the gift shop.

Some guys get all the luck. No entries for "Dr Island" http://www.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/sad2.gif

Mother always did tell me I had ***** for brains and fondly called me her little ***** head....but I can't seem to find her little pet name for me in the list...I guess it wasn't too popular...

Hmmm, my girlfriend seems to find my name very popular right now - she often shouts it out aloud, hehe..! :D

Cheers!

Willem

John as a vanilla name has at least been on the wane for a few decades.

I checked a bunch of other names, and, as I suspected, Emma flatlined in the mid 20th cent, but went almost asymptotic lately. It seems every other gentile couple I know having kids names the girl Emma. Yick.

Check out the "Boris" curve...

JP

Yick? My daughters name is Emma - named after her Grandmother.

Mike -- not the name (I have a cousin named Emma, which name I really thought classic when it was given to her 18 years ago) but the group-think that attaches to name-giving and trendynames in general. Certainly no offense to any particular Emma -- you don't get to pick your name.

Nowhere near any sizeable fraction of the girls named Emma in the last 15 years are named after ancestors. They've got the name b/c it was trendy. I'm stuck with a vanilla name whose "popularity" I lament, but it'd suck to get a trendyname... for girls, recently: Britney or Brittany or Bria or Brooke, etc.

I dated an "Abigail" named at birth in 1969 when it wasn't exactly cutting-edge; now it's a trendyname ... and looking at the curve, unless a very few Abigails had literally hundreds of children -each- in the 40's and 50's, there's no way it became the 6th most popular name in 2003 b/c all the girls are so named after gram'ma.

JP