In class today, we used the baby name wizard as an in-class example of social outcomes. We were able to compare the popularity of a particular name at specific moments in time to illustrate collective trends over time periods.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Baby Name Wizard In-Class Example
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My name spiked in the early 1980s and decline at the end of the decade.
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty cool, I'm named after my father and noticed that the name Gregory spiked in the 1950-1960 when my father was born and actually decline each year from my birth date (1990) until present day (2009)
ReplyDeleteAwesome Greg! My name is Cassandra and the peak for the name Cassandra was in 1990 and that is when I was born. It has since declined rapidly.
ReplyDeleteMy name was at its highest during the 1980s and saw a severe drop ever since that point. This make sense since there were only a few other christina's in my high school of about 1500 students.
ReplyDeleteI've never met another Gabriel before. Apparently it's all the rage these days. Currently at its peak which began in the 1960's.
ReplyDeleteBelieve it or not i've never met, heard of, or even seen a name even similar to Kaz. Parents must have been a little tipsy when they thought of this one....When i typed my name in the baby wizard finder it didn't even find results....I must be the one and only
ReplyDeleteTerrance peaked in the 1970's but i have never personally met anybody named Terrance...
ReplyDeleteI find it very interesting that my name was one of the top names given to babies in the 1990's. Now I can see why I meet so many Sams and Samanthas my age.
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ReplyDeleteI found it interesting to see that the popularity of the name, Amanda, died down following 1991, the year I was born.
ReplyDeletemy name was very popular in the late 50's and early 60's im named after my dad and he was born in that time.
ReplyDeleteMy name, "Neal," was 217 in the 50's but then saw a steep and continual decline and hasn't been in the top 1,000 in the new millennium. Alternately, the most common spelling, "Neil" (the cause for my name often being incorrectly written by people I've only just met) makes a mountain - peaks in the 30's, 50's, 70's with noticeable decline in the off-decades, and in 2008 was number 709!
ReplyDeleteThe way I spell my name didnt even exist until the the late 1960's. I have only meet one other person in my life that spells ciara the way I do. the nameed peeked in 2000 and is rapidly decresing...
ReplyDeleteThe name Kylie was very popular in the 80's and 90's! As the years go on it is getting less popular but still has surprisingly high numbers. I never realized how common my name was in the years relatively close to my birth.
ReplyDeleteJennifer has always been a popular name and still is, but it was most popular in the 70's which makes sense because thats the era my mom grew up in.
ReplyDeleteMy name Katherine has been popular since the 1800's and peaked in the 80's and 90's right around the time i was born. My nick name Katie was also very common during the 80's as well.
ReplyDeleteI think this application is crazy! i had no idea my name had been used just as much now as in the 1800's
ReplyDeleteThe name Brooke was really popular in the 90's. It is still fairly popular now, but it is definitely on a downward slope.
ReplyDeleteThe name danielle started in the 1930's. hit a high peak in the 1980's and has been decreasing slowly ever since. It was only popular for a short amount of time.
ReplyDeleteMy name is Stephanie, my name peaked in the late 1970s and has not been nearly as popular since then. My middle name is Rita, after my great grandma, which has not been popular since the 1930.
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