Thursday, May 21, 2009

Baby Names

Since I am getting married i have been thinking more about baby names, not that Dillyn and I have any immediate plans(mom).  But Recently I have heard about Babynamewizard.com which uses census information, surveys, and other resources to tell you a very many things on names in a given year.  One of my favorite tools on the site is the name voyager which will graph the top 1000 names by popularity since about 1880.  Also they have articles analyzing some of the data that they have collected including one article that pointed out some very interesting things in the end of baby boy's names in the last 100 years here is the article by Laura Wattenberg, but the basic gist is that until 2006 boys names ended with a handfull of letters, the most popular ones being END and S.  However in 2006 the most popular boys end letter was by far N blowing all the other letters out of the water, check out the article its interesting.  Also if you want to avoid information overload, with the names there is always Wolfram|Alpha, which has a decent name search, just type in a given name into the input feild and you will be presented with some stats.

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