names

Political leanings of first and last names

Statistical Visualization / names, politics, Washington Post

For The Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam and Lenny Bronner analyzed names and…
Spell your name with satellite imagery

Maps / Landsat, names, NASA, satellite imagery

Here’s a fun interactive from NASA Landsat that lets you enter your name…
Name guessing probabilities on talk radio

Site News / names, radio

A few years ago, I made an interactive chart that guesses your name…
Trendy baby name sounds

Statistical Visualization / names, trends, Washington Post

For WP’s Department of Data, Daniel Wolfe analyzed baby name data with Laura…
Names that are more dog or more human

Statistical Visualization / dogs, names, Washington Post

There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa…
More gender-neutral names

Statistical Visualization / gender, Georgios Karamanis, names

Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names…
Trendiest Baby Name Every Year Since 1930, in the U.S.

Data Underload / names

Baby names gain sudden popularity for various reasons. See how it’s changed over the years.
Evolution of Chinese names

Infographics / Chinese, Isabella Chua, names

For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…
Karen equivalents, based on name data

Statistical Visualization / Karen, names, Pudding, stereotype

The name Karen. It’s not a common baby name these days. It peaked…
Grandpa Chad distribution

Infographics / age, humor, names, xkcd

xkcd crossed a rough age distribution of people becoming grandparents with people named…
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Making the Name Guesser (The Process #73)

The Process / behind the scenes, names

Using one of my recent projects as an example, I describe my non-elegant process of making a quick chart.
Guessing Names Based on What They Start With

Data Underload / Amelia McNamara, guess, names

I’m terrible at names, but maybe data can help. Put in your sex, the decade when you were born, and start putting in your name. I’ll try to guess before you’re done.
Street suffixes show the organization of cities

Maps / names, roads

The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…
The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History

Data Underload / gender, names

We use some names mostly for boys and some mostly for girls, but then there is a small percentage that, over time, switched from one gender to another. Which names made the biggest switch?
Names in movies vs. real life

Statistical Visualization / movies, names

Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…
The rise and plummet of the name Heather

Statistics / Heather, names, Quartz

Hey, no one told me that baby name analysis was back in fashion.…
Estimated age based on your name

Statistical Visualization / names, Randal Olson

A while back, Nate Silver and Allison McCann for FiveThirtyEight estimated age based…
The Most Regional Names in US History

Data Underload / names, Social Security Administration

It was a challenge to choose a name for my son, someone who…
Most popular girl names by state

Maps / Jezebel, names

Reuben Fischer-Baum looks at the most popular girl names by state, over the…
The Most Unisex Names in US History

Data Underload / names

Moving on from the most trendy names in US history, let’s look at…

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