![[OC] die 25 Unisex-Babynamen in den USA, 2000–2024](https://www.bytesde.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/yyi4aautqhvf1-847x1024.png "[OC] die 25 Unisex-Babynamen in den USA, 2000–2024")
Swipe für 1980-1999, 1960-1979 und warum Alex und Taylor nicht in den anderen Charts sind.
Blogbeitrag mit Code, weiteren Diagrammen, Analysen und hübschen Tabellen: https://nameplay.org/blog/most-non-binary-gender-neutral-names
Design basiert auf ein Beitrag von Randy Olson von vor 11 Jahren. Ja, dieses U-Boot gibt es schon eine Weile. Der gesamte Code und die Analyse sind Originale.
Enthält Namen mit insgesamt mindestens 5.000 Geburten beider Geschlechter in den Babynamendaten der Social Security Administration im Zeitraum jedes Diagramms. Namen werden anhand eines Diversitätsindex eingestuft, der den quadrierten Geburtenanteil jedes Geschlechts von 1 subtrahiert. Diese Metrik wird in der Ökologie Simpson-Index und in der Ökonomie Herfindahl-Hirschman-Index genannt.
Diese Visualisierung konzentriert sich auf die Namen mit der größten nicht-binären Geschlechtsverteilung in den Babynamendaten, NICHT auf die häufigsten Namen, die als Unisex gelten.
Von aar0nbecker
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Data Source: [Social Security Administration full baby names data set](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html) (all names given to >5 same-sex babies in a year)
Tools:
* Analysis: Jupyter, Python, polars
* Visualization: matplotlib, aquarel (theming)
Blog post from Jupyter Notebook with all code: https://nameplay.org/blog/most-non-binary-gender-neutral-names
I’m surprised so many boys are being named Dominique, I have never seen that before
I am surprised the name Raven is not on here. I think its a beautiful name that can be used for either gender.
Anticipate A drop off in Skyler over the next 25 year period.
Chris, Sam, and Alex in the last chart maybe don’t seem to be including the full names that get shortened to it.
e.g. Samuel vs Samantha -> both often shortened to ‚Sam‘
and for Chris, usually Kris* -> still pronounced ‚Chris‘
Alexis, Alexa -> Alex
etc
As a foreigner some of these are wild. Nearly 50/50 split of boys and girls named Angel? Sage, Jean?
Laverne, Jackie, Beverly, and Evelyne would like a word…
Jaylin is interesting. The story I’d always heard touted was that that name didn’t exist before NBA star Jalen Rose was born. He was on TV in the 90s and suddenly a bunch of other Jalen-esque named kids started popping up a decade or two later (it IS a pretty cool name.)
Last years NBA champions had not one, but TWO dudes named some variation of “Jalen Williams” on the team.
Anyway, surprised it’s like half girls if that story was true.
That last slide’s „despite what you may think“, it’s still normal to call girls Chris, Sam and Alex due to Christine/a, Samantha and Alexandra..
Interesting, the staying power of Marion. It was the original name of John Wayne (Marion Morrison).
Tommie *and* Lee. How fitting
The letter „y“ getting a lot of playtime on this list
Most of the „least androgynous“ ones are nicknames. I wonder the sex breakdown of people *who go by Alex / Chris* regardless of full government name (Alexander / ra, Christopher / ine.)
Who names their kid Ocean?
I am surprised Jordan isn’t on this list.
How is there so many people that chose to name their daughter fuckin Murphy?
I’m really surprised Kelly isn’t on this list! I know an equal amount of girl and boy Kelly’s!
I didn’t know Dakota can be a boy name! I always thought it was a girl name because of Dakota Fanning. Not that there’s anything wrong for a boy/man to be named Dakota of course. To each their own.
Is that Jael said like Jail? Who the hell names their kid that
Actually a little surprised at just how lopsided Taylor is. As a guy with that name I was pretty certain it was much more common for women, just didn’t expect it to be greater than 5:1.
Taylor Swift really swung that name to the girls didn’t it.
So many of these names make me question parent’s naming decisions…
It’s really annoying for people to have to always spell out their name. It doesn’t make your kid unique, it makes them have a hassle in life that they didn’t need.
I have legit never heard the name Azariah and apparently there are thousands roaming the US.
What I find super interesting is that, over the decades, Morgan went from being a masculine name to a feminine name
we have some tradegiehs in that first slide. oh my
What am I missing about girls being named Frankie? I’ve never heard of this. Short form of Francis or something?
The boys’ spelling is Jesse, Jessie as a boy should be very rare
What does sorted for diversity mean
I’ve never heard of Jael. Who tf names their kid something that’s a homophone of a negative thing? That’s just brain damaged.
As an Irish person why are our surnames being given as forenames?
Frankie is traditionally short for Francis or Frances, so it’s only unisex because they didn’t include the original
Jael was a woman in the Bible
Dominique is the feminine spelling of Dominic
A lot of material here for r/tragedeigh
95 percent of Punjabi sikh names are unisex
Of the three Gaelic origin names on the first panel:
Murphy is the anglicised form of the surname Ó Murchú, which means „descendant of the sea warrior“. It’s is indeed not a forename….
Rian is a butchered anglicisation of Rían, a male forename with some relation to the Irish word Rí (King). The common accepted anglicisation is Ryan.
Finley, more commonly written as Finlay, is an anglicised male forename meaning the „warrior of fair completion“, coming from the Irish Fionn Laoch.
Americans, please feel free to use our names, but please use them appropriately. It’s bad enough that the imposition of English anglicised them in the first place, they don’t need to be butchered again….
You could argue about the definition of „most unisex“. I get that „Kirby“ is high on the list because 2577 aand 2746 are very close. But then for every boy AND girl called Kirby there are at least ten called Taylor, so you could also argue that that name is more unisex, because it is given more often to both boys and girls in absolute numbers, even if girls are more prevalent.
In other words, you could also consider simply ranking them by the lower of the boys/girls totals for each name, to get the names you’re most likely to encounter for both genders at some point.
I would say the vast majority of these names don’t come across as unisex/androgynous.