Thursday, April 12, 2007

Names

Can anybody update me on the name-to-be of Kaitlyn's little bro? Here's an interesting website to check out: you type in a name, and it gives you a graph showing the popularity that name over the last 120 years. "Nicole" became common around 1950, and peaked in the 1980s. "Mattie" was really popular in 1880--yes, 1880--but it declined over the last century. Though it's climbed back a little, in the last 15 years. It ranked as the 777th most popular name in 2005! That's not bad.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

cool,there were 2 henrys in 1990 and 6 in 2000. a whopping 300% increase in 10 short years. if only my stock portfolio is doing as well.
looks like henrys are making a comeback.
just what we need, more henrys.
hoponpop

Anonymous said...

it's reilly--a good irish name for a chinese.
may reilly live the life of reilly.
;-)>

TME-J said...

the baby name wizard is cool website. the baby name wizard is gonna be helpful for those future parents out there as it diplays the most present of the name of 2005 all way back to 1890s and the popularity. very cool website