[DJ_Lae]

Damn, figures that immediately after we name our daughter that name explodes in popularity - I specifically chose it because I liked it and it wasn't too common.

Interesting to see just when it began to fall in popularity as a male name, though.

[Al-ibn Kermit]

WHYYYYYYY There's nothing wrong with having a common name. No one will look down upon your kids for being named Matt or David or Mark, but they will if you name them weird shit, or even worse, a common name with a fucked up spelling.

It's nice knowing people are talking to you when they call your name out in a crowd. Go to a mosque and call out Mohammad to see what I mean.

[Danielsan]

Ranking in the top 10 since the 80's.



Global Popularity
of the Name Daniel

#1 in Spain
#2 in Iceland
#3 in Northern Ireland
#3 in Scotland
#5 in United States
#6 in Ireland
#6 in Wales
#7 in England
#7 in Hungary
#8 in Canada (Ontario)
#9 in Czech Republic
#9 in Norway
#10 in New Zealand
#12 in Australia (New South Wales)
#14 in Canada (Alberta)
#15 in Australia (Victoria)
#15 in Austria
#17 in Canada (British Columbia)
#24 in Chile
#30 in Denmark
#44 in Germany
#66 in Sweden
#93 in Canada (Quebec)

[RobotNinjaHornets]

It's nice knowing people are talking to you when they call your name out in a crowd. Go to a mosque and call out Mohammad to see what I mean.

Hey, I'm living with a Rob and my housemate is going out with someone else called Rob and you don't see me complaining

[NZer]

My name first appear in the top 1000 in 2004, and remained in the 900-1000 region ever since.

The names I have picked out for my future sons (I WILL HAVE ONLY SONS, MWAHAHA) are in the 200-300 and 500-600 range. All are the "typical" spelling.

[Lucius86]

Talk about a name explosion - Luke was simmering along at the bottom of the graph until the1970's when it just exploded.

Bet Star Wars had a say in that.

[Aesius]

My name is pretty fuckin rare, but no one is ever surprised by it.

[yamo]

[CRD90]

k, I'm done with the site.

Why would it?

[Death Dealer]

When did aiden start becoming a name at all?

Aiden Quinn son of Anthony born in 1959. Although apparently, the name was pretty rare in the US before the last 10-20 years. I never knew Aiden was also a girl's name.

Also I looked up Shaniqua. Not that popular at all, and only in use for a brief time in the 80s/90s.

[Death Dealer]

It's nice knowing people are talking to you when they call your name out in a crowd.

Not a good enough reason to name your kid Moonbeam unit or whatever fucked up shit noid has planned so his kids can be "unique".


Weird spellings of common names are almost as bad though. I met this girl once recently, she was hispanic and the name on her tag was spelled Denisse. I asked her, how do you say your name ? da nee say ? I think that's how you'd pronounce that in Spanish. She was just like no, it's Denise. She probably gets questions about that all the time, all because her parents were illiterate. Sad.

[Kandrick]

Not ranked in the top 1000 on both sites. Feels good man.

[Korey]

I knew it. Donald is the worst name, i feel bad for anyone who has that name in this day and age.

Actually, EVERY male name I search for has that same triangle downward slope shape...what gives?

[Grinchy]

It's been a roller coaster ride for my name.




(my name is not really Jarvis)

[Dan]

Ranking in the top 10 since the 80's. Global Popularity of the Name Daniel #1 in Spain #2 in Iceland #3 in Northern Ireland #3 in Scotland #5 in United States #6 in Ireland #6 in Wales #7 in England #7 in Hungary #8 in Canada (Ontario) #9 in Czech Republic #9 in Norway #10 in New Zealand #12 in Australia (New South Wales) #14 in Canada (Alberta) #15 in Australia (Victoria) #15 in Austria #17 in Canada (British Columbia) #24 in Chile #30 in Denmark #44 in Germany #66 in Sweden #93 in Canada (Quebec)

Yeah. The name is so damn common that I don't even use it anymore. I'm known professionally and socially by my initials instead. It's just easier. Almost everywhere I go there's another Dan, so it's just confusing and frustrating to use it.

If I ever have kids, I'll definitely try to give them fairly unusual names.

[Famicom]

My name peaked at 101 in the 1910s. :( Why are Isabella and Sophia so popular now?

[Ryaaan14]

Why would it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRUdaWZ4FN0

[synt4x]

In this day and age, is it really good for your kid to have a unique name? I have a weird last name, only 8 living people on the planet have that spelling of it, so I have no privacy or anonymity, if someone searches for my first and last name, it's me and only me.

Yeah when I was a kid I didn't like my name that much, thinking it was a bit generic. But as the Internet became popular and people started to look up each other on google, I became really thankful that my name is as generic as it is. There's a music artist with my name, and an old volleyball player apparently. And there are around 400 people in Sweden with the same name. That makes it much harder to find me specifically by just googling my name.

Edit: weird btw that both my name (Robert) and my sister's name (Sarah) were equally popular in 1880.

[jaxword]

Biblical names seem to be on the rise.

I wonder if this is a sign of the hyper-religiousness of the Bush administration combined with the demographics for higher birth rates?

[Prax]

I like unique names as long as the spelling doesn't look atrociously ridiculous/trying too hard (e.g. nick => nihyckk).

And all the people saying people should name their kid something "normal" sometimes sound very.. very.. ethnocentric to me (because what people usually mean is some kind of eurocentric/western-world name you would expect of a middle-class white person). There are so many cultures and languages and good-sounding sounds. I don't see why you have to limit names to what is already established. BORING.

That said, I have the most common Vietnamese name that I think is stereotypically possible for a girl to have. I kind of wish it WAS more unique, but I guess I'll have to "abuse" my kid and give him/her the unique names.

[CRD90]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRUdaWZ4FN0

Lol, I thought you just mistyped Steven!

[Santerestil]

As an Italian, this always perplexed me: here Andrea is ONLY a male name, but it seems that in USA is female. The hell?






EDIT: Yes, I understand: Andrew, Andre. Silly me. But for me it remains strange.

[Ryaaan14]

Lol, I thought you just mistyped Steven!

[GJS]

Not too popular, had a reasonable spike though but no where near as much the names jumping up to like 25,000 per million, thank god.

[vcassano1]

Mine's good because it is rare but not obscure, and is accessible:

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyage...w=m&exact=true


Somehow people still end up spelling it Deem, Deam or Deerm... I don't know how. It is in the damn dictionary.

[Jasconius]

What I've realized from messing around with this is that people came up with just as bad names in 1880 as they do today.

Izetta? Mervin? Pleas? Yetta? General? Mignon?

The thing is, no one remembers the bizarre names that stay bizarre from long ago, and the ones that stick no longer bizarre 130 years later because we've gotten used to them! 130 years from now, I guarantee that some of the stupid-sounding popular names from today will seem totally normal, or even old-fashioned like Edna or Elmer.

EDIT: Even the name-mispelling thing was around!

Edyth? Ednah? Toney? Joeseph?

The more things change the more they stay the same...

[Something Wicked]

Yeah, there's definitely been a trend over recent years for Romantic language-based girls' names to be used for girls' names in the US.

To the natural English speaker, such Romantic names are (or perhaps were) unique, yet still pronounceable- vowels we can do. When you start getting into the more Germanic and Slavic names... many of us have trouble with 3-4 consonants in a row and positioning our tongues for quite different letter/accent sounds.

[strafer]

:D

[MNC]

Jacob

Isabella

Surely this is due to that one movie series.


Also, it seems boys Leslie never won from girls Leslie :(

[Sentry]

1890s.... the beginning of the end.

[PairOfFilthySocks]

"<My-Name> is not in the top 1000 male names for any year of birth in the last 100 years"

I'm so special!

[Moppet13]

Yeah. The name is so damn common that I don't even use it anymore. I'm known professionally and socially by my initials instead. It's just easier. Almost everywhere I go there's another Dan, so it's just confusing and frustrating to use it. If I ever have kids, I'll definitely try to give them fairly unusual names.

No kidding, it's funny when people ask me why I go by a different name. There were like 10 other Daniels in all of my classes. Being the 10th Daniel in my Family doesn't help any either.

[leadbelly]

lol

With my name there is just a blank space up until 1980.

This is based on American data right?

[ajim]

Yeah, my Turkish name doesn't even register :(

[Ikkarus]

Site seems to think my name is only girls. :(

[jaxword]

I find this interesting that my first/middle names are Jacob Michael, and they're in the top 3. I'm already a generic white guy, now my name is DOUBLE generic.

It's where I got my username from, too. I wrote a blog called Jake's Word back in High school and it got shortened.

[Baconsaurus Rex]

Those damn baby boomers.

#7 in Austria
#21 in Germany
#75 in Sweden
#173 in Norway
#288 in United States

Is the US Map broken? Only New-Mexico is blue.

[MrCunningham]

My name peaked in the 1960's and went downhill from there. Cool.

[Tokubetsu]

The fall off for my name is MASSIVE:


Peaked in the 70s and basically jumped off a cliff right after.

[Edmond Dantès]

No names starting with "_ _ _ _" rank in the top 1,000 in any time period.


Guess my name is pretty rare.

[PSFan]

I'm sure the top 10 boys names today were taken from Lost and not other crap. Right?

[TAJ]

Talk about a name explosion - Luke was simmering along at the bottom of the graph until the1970's when it just exploded. Bet Star Wars had a say in that.

It's funny, though... The only Luke I've ever known was named over a year before Star Wars came out.

[Kinyou]

John, wtf man? We used to be great

[JAVK]

John, wtf man? We used to be great

Look at that scale on the side bro. It's still very popular.

[FyreWulff]

My name and my first younger brother's names are starting to converge in popularity. The other two brothers names don't even chart.

Also, my mom knew a girl named Michael when she was in high school in the late 70s.


Also, for the love of god people, don't name your kid <your name> Jr. It's completely fucked me over to the point that I'm actually getting my name legally changed in the near future.

[MMaRsu]

Why doesnt Matthijs work, wtf.

[tri_willy]

i win

[Silphonica]

Gregor keeps getting coupled with Gregory, thats not my name. Therefore I don't know the stats for my name. :(

[raphier]

Alexander has been gaining popularity last couple of years from top 200 to top 5. I wonder why?

[pmj]

In this day and age, is it really good for your kid to have a unique name? I have a weird last name, only 8 living people on the planet have that spelling of it, so I have no privacy or anonymity, if someone searches for my first and last name, it's me and only me.

Yup, having a truly unique name is shit. I'm always paranoid about giving out my name for exactly this reason.

On the plus side, though, you can send me letters just by writing my name (and my country if you're sending from abroad) on them. They arrive just fine.