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You don't need to be having a baby to find this site interesting: you can use it to see the trends of baby names in history. (It's a lot of data, so be patient: it takes a bit of time to load after you click the link.) It tracks the top-1000 most popular names. Take a name -- say, Randy, to pick one totally at random. Type the name slowly and you'll find the relevant data starts to appear. Using your mouse to hover over different points you can find, for instance, that "Randy" is the masculine form, and "Randi" the feminine. In the 1950s, Randy was the 33rd most popular name for boys. In the 60s it drops to 40th, in the 70s it gets down to 77th. (And in 2004, it was down to 315th!) The data is from the U.S. Social Security Administration, so it's obviously U.S.-centric, but it's interesting to see naming trends over time, and whether your parents were influenced by naming fads when you were born. From This is True for 20 August 2005 Suggestions for further reading:
 by Laura Wattenberg Amazon Price: $9.35 Customer Review: We are having a little girl in October and bought this book before we went away on vacation to help us select a name. Although this book does not have a sea of names like many of the 100,000+ name books out there, there is a wide-range of names to c...  by Bruce Lansky Amazon Price: $9.32 Customer Review: Bought this book hoping to find something interesting- instead I spent so much time wading through hindi and islamic names I finally gave up on finding anything appropriate. The crowning moment was finding "Jihad" as a suggested name- oh dear. On top...  by Gilbert A. Jarvis, Thérèse M. Bonin, Diane W. Birckbichler, Anne Lair Amazon Price: $124.43 Customer Review: I had to use this book for French 101 in college. I don't recommend it, if you're not being forced to purchase it. The culture sections do contain a lot of helpful and interesting information about France and the other French-speaking countries, but ...  by Lesley Bolton Amazon Price: $10.39 Customer Review: Although there are quite a lot of names to go through, most are not useable. This book however did provide a great laugh and could be a good reference of what NOT to name your child. True you can find some ideas, but if you ever wondered why a lot of...  by Linda Rosenkrantz, Pamela Redmond Satran Amazon Price: $3.11 Customer Review: I bought "Beyond Jennifer and Jason..." years ago, and was pleased to see a more current version out, now that I'm expecting again and stuck in the name department. But having already read the older version, Beyond Ava and Aiden was a disappointment... Newsfeed display by CaRP |
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