baby names trends

25 July 2008

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a website dedicated to the visualization of baby name frequencies & geographical distributions. baby names can be mapped by popularity over time or popularity state by state, while groups of names, patterns or variants can be charted cumulatively.

[link: nametrends.net|via kottke.org]

see also baby name voyager.

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http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager remains the undisputed champion in my eyes.

Adam . 30 July 2008

That's great... now all we need is to overlay the data on which famous person is in the spotlight to see if there is a correlation.

Jess . 31 July 2008

My name was very popular in the 80s.

baby girl . 31 July 2008

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