Popular Baby Names
If you’ve ever read the book Freakonomics then you’ll know that naming your baby—if and when you have one—is an important task. People who give their children freakishly bad names cause much harm to the lives of their young, which reminds me of that old Johnny Cash song, A Boy Named Sue.
If you’re interested in doing a little research on baby names, the Social Security Administration has a great website where you can do lookups for the top baby names for any year since 1879. They have from the Top 20 names to the Top 1000 names. You can also lookup the popularity of a particular name over the years.
I see that my name, Daniel, has gone from being the 15th most popular name in the US in the year of my birth to the 7th most popular boys’ name in 2004.
The SSA Popular Baby Names site is here. [via Strange Culture who reports that Gwyneth Paltrow’s youngster, Apple, hasn’t hit the Top 1000 ever]
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