There appears to be a trend of using human names for pets. Alyssa…
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Names that are more dog or more human
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More gender-neutral names
Georgios Karamanis plotted the ratio of girls-to-boys over time for all the names…
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Trendiest Baby Name Every Year Since 1930, in the U.S.
Baby names gain sudden popularity for various reasons. See how it’s changed over the years.
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Evolution of Chinese names
For Kontinentalist, Isabella Chua took a dive into the evolution of Chinese names:…
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Karen equivalents, based on name data
The name Karen. It’s not a common baby name these days. It peaked…
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Grandpa Chad distribution
xkcd crossed a rough age distribution of people becoming grandparents with people named…
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Making the Name Guesser (The Process #73)
Using one of my recent projects as an example, I describe my non-elegant process of making a quick chart.
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Guessing Names Based on What They Start With
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.
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Street suffixes show the organization of cities
The suffixes on street names can say a lot about a neighborhood. A…
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The Most Gender-Switched Names in US History
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?
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Names in movies vs. real life
Here’s a fun spin on the name analysis genre by Mary Zam. She…
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The rise and plummet of the name Heather
Hey, no one told me that baby name analysis was back in fashion.…
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Estimated age based on your name
A while back, Nate Silver and Allison McCann for FiveThirtyEight estimated age based…
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The Most Regional Names in US History
It was a challenge to choose a name for my son, someone who…
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Most popular girl names by state
Reuben Fischer-Baum looks at the most popular girl names by state, over the…
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The Most Unisex Names in US History
Moving on from the most trendy names in US history, let’s look at…
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The Most Trendy Names in US History
Names are incredibly personal things. It’s how we identity ourselves. We associate others,…
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Atlas of literal place names
We go places. They have names. What do these names mean though? The…
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The most poisoned name in US history
Biostatistics PhD candidate Hilary Parker dived into the most poisoned names in US…
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Computer assisted design and the 9/11 Memorial
Digital artist Jer Thorp discusses the algorithm and tool used to arrange 9/11…