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.

hehehe

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

well, with a name like Fick :D

Ahh, well spotted Ronin! Afraid this (very unfortunate) surname has little to do with reputation though..!

Kinda like Jennifer in the 70's and 80's - I must have known 4000 Jen's.
My wife has always wanted to name a daughter after her Great Grandmother, when we found out it she was going to be a girl, she had her mind already made up. We were watching the Friends episode - the birth of Rachel and Ross's daughter, I looked over at her and said, "now there is going to be a bizzillion Emma's you know", her reply, "yep, and there is a bizzillion Mikes - so how did I end up with the biggest dork Mike of them all?" She has such a way...

How do you get the chart to go before 1900?

Taking about the type-in chart 1900-2003.

mine was popular during the roots mini series run. go figure?

From the 70's on, ranked 10, 3, 3, 4. They couldn't spell my middle name properly until the 90's.:rolleyes:

...and I thought I was unique. "Christopher Michael" is also my name...

LOL!!! Me too!

For what it's worth, we named our daughter Emma Margaret after two of her great grandmothers. It bugs me that the name may become trendy. I've never been in a crowded room without at least one or two other people with my name and it can be a pain using the phone when you have a common name. I thought for sure Emma was going to be a little bit unique. Shows what I know.

I guess Mikes with daughters named Emma after a great grandmother are more common than I thought. Geez, I never would have bet on that!

Ya, if your wife's name is Lisa (#1 in 60's) I will ***** my draws!

Nope. Your drawers are safe.

I agree about the trendy name thing, but if you love a certain name I guess go for it. Some how, the truly common names like Robert and Christopher transcend trendiness, (since their popularity is so long-lasting), but the group-think thing w/ certain kids' names drives me nuts. If I liked a certain name for my kid and it got trendy I would be bummed, but then again the chart prooves that most names had their hayday for only a short while, so I guess it's been going on forever.

I love cool, unusual names like Julius and Balthazar, (know one of each), but other great names like Jack are getting played-out big time right now on babies. (Including my 10 yr. old nephew). :rolleyes:

When he grows up, every 3rd guy that he meets is going to have his "unique" name. Kind of like Joshua for 20-somethings now.

Was a time when there were only a few very cool "Jacks", ie. Nicholson, Black, Olsen, the ripper, etc... ;)

There are a *****load of babies named "Max" right now, at least here in L.A. Same w/ Henry, Elijah, etc....

Juan and Jose are huge around here as well, but that's a different kind of trend(y). :cool: