US-Babynamendaten 1880–2024.
Quelle: Sozialversicherungsbehörde
Die Daten umfassen alle bei der SSA registrierten Vornamen ab dem Geburtsjahr 1880. Namen mit weniger als 5 Personen werden von der SSA zum Schutz der Privatsphäre weggelassen. Die Schreibweise von Namen ist einzigartig und jeder Name wird mit dem bei der Geburt zugewiesenen Geschlecht gespeichert. Die Daten der SSA umfassen nur die ersten 15 Buchstaben eines Namens, obwohl sie schätzt, dass nur sehr wenige Namen länger als 15 Zeichen sind.
Folie 1 zeigt den Anteil aller Babys mit einem Namen unter den Top-N-Namen dieses Jahres und zeigt, dass die Namen immer vielfältiger werden. Folie 2 zeigt die durchschnittliche Anzahl der Buchstaben in Babynamen, die seit den 90er Jahren zurückgegangen ist. Folie 3 zeigt die aktuellsten Babynamen nach Anfangsbuchstaben. Folie 4 zeigt den Aufstieg und Fall ausgewählter Namen, deren Popularität deutlich zunahm. Folie 5 zeigt 4 verschiedene Unisex-Namen und wie sich das Geschlecht von Babys mit diesem Namen im Laufe der Zeit verändert hat.
Von graphsarecool
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Source: SSA [https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/limits.html)
Tools: Python with matpotlib.
Men named Joan? What culture’s that?
And if anyone’s wondering about girls‘ names in the 1980s, I’m going with the popularity of Jennifer and Stephanie.
I named my little boy JALMCEK
I think the first letter popularity graph would be much better in alphabetical order so we can more easily see differences and similarities between the genders.
This is fascinating to me as a teacher born in the 80s.
There are typical names to my generation. Jason, Brandon, Jessica, Brittany, etc: names that you definitely had in every class, that changed with each generation.
Occasionally now I’ll write a story problem and I’ll want the names to be of my students‘ generation: things that sound like them, and don’t sound like middle-aged or old people. And I find myself struggling sometimes with „what even IS a ‚typical‘ popular name for a zoomer“ without actually using students‘ names. You kind of had the ‚-aiden‘ trend for a while (Jayden and Kaiden and Braiden and Peydon and Ayden and…), but I feel like these later generations just don’t share common names as much as we used to, and it’s hard to pick out very many random names that feel like high school age names specifically.
Looks like it’s not just my imagination.
I still don’t get Liam.
Why not just name the child William and call him Liam? It’s half a name.
William can be Will, Willy, Bill, Billy, or Liam.
Liam is just Liam.
Was Liam really that rare of a name in the US? I’m in Canada and Liam is a completely „normal“ guy name and barely has any connotations of being an Irish name or whatever.
This is well done. I’ve seen plenty of charts on baby name trends; this one actually showed me some new things (charts 1-3). Chart 4 should really be based on %, not #, but it wouldn’t really change the story. I know a ton of Jennifers and Jessicas!
The gender one is interesting; I’m betting the Joan trend is a function of a drop in female Joans more than an increase in male Joans.
The first chart surprised me – it indicates that female names tend to be more diverse than male names, but growing up reading „Top 10 Baby names“, it seemed like female names were more consistently multi-year repeats than male names.
I have to imagine the letter A being so heavily favored has to do with it being first in the alphabet.
Picks up a book of names, reads thru the first couple pages, „that one looks good. All done.“
This is pretty well done. My one complaint is that the baby name popularity by first letter is sorted by most to least. I think sorting by alphabetical order would be easier to take in at a glance.