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Baby Name Voyager

We appear to be past the point of needing to name new babies in our family, but I still like the interactivity of the Baby Name Voyager. You could consider this a more specialized cousin to the Google Ngram Viewer. In fact, it’s interesting to compare results from the two. You would expect the increased usage of a name to correspond to an increase in print, perhaps with a time lag to give the babies time to grow up before they become newsworthy. Does it play out?

It appears that I had a good run in the 70’s and 80’s but have dropped sharply since then. Those were good years for me – hmm…Baby Name Voyager "Erik"

 

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2 Responses to “Baby Name Voyager”

  1. March 11th, 2011 at 11:14 am

    Hugh says:

    I peaked about a hundred years earlier. 😐

    Although I’ve kept fairly steady in print. Hugh is a very literary name. 🙂

    I like your Baby Name Voyager graph’s sail shape!

  2. April 25th, 2011 at 6:38 pm

    Neal says:

    Much to my surprise, Neal as a girl’s name actually shows up on the Baby Name Voyager, peaking in the 1880’s at 26 per million. Apparently Baby Name Voyager missed my birth in the late 1950’s.