Datavisualization Used to Map Popular Baby Names
For many, using their first name is impractical because so many share the same first name.
Babyname Wizard
provides
Name Voyager: Baby Name Wizard Graph of Most Popular Baby Names
so you can see just how popular certain names are in this datavisualization. Names can be scrolled through with each represented by a line (boys are blue and girls pink) with their thickness representing their popularity. Readers who cannot find their name by hovering over the graph can search for their name specifically and indicate whether they are looking for boys or girls by that name. The datavisualization covers the 1880s until 2014, by decade. Names are listed in the 100,000s per million births.
Hovering over a name in the datavisualization tells the viewer the name as well as its rank at that point in time. Names like “John” show a decline since the 1880s when it was number 1 to number 2 starting in the 1920s. It stayed in the top 10 until 1990s when it moved to number 15. Clicking on the name in the chart takes the reader to a view of only that name. Clicking on the second chart opens a new tab which provides information about the name such as the origin, other name lists featuring the same name, comments from readers, famous people with that name as well as its use in songs, stories and movies.
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