To: nj_pilot
There is a query tool that you can ha ve some fun with. It's limitted to the top 10 names, but try this table to see how names have come and gone from 1880-2000 [I really oughta update it I suppose].
13 posted on
01/09/2004 7:21:56 PM PST by
supercat
(Why is it that the more "gun safety" laws are passed, the less safe my guns seem?)
To: supercat
It's limitted to the top 10 names, but try this table to see how names have come and gone from 1880-2000 I see obvious spikes in the popularity of "Shirley" during Shirley Temple's heyday, and "Rachel" during the most popular years of the sitcom "Friends"...
It would be interesting to track down the reasons for the sudden rise and/or fall of other names.
To: supercat
I guess I know where my name....Roy...went, when it is not even on your table. I don't think I have ever met another person named Roy all through school and now at college. Nobody.
135 posted on
01/09/2004 8:41:25 PM PST by
rwfromkansas
("Men stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up as if nothing had happened." Churchill)
To: supercat
John, James, Robert, and William... all in the top 10 for almost the entire 20th Century, are all off the top ten now.
The assault on American tradition continues?
To: supercat
"but try this table "
Better methods of presenting date in tables have been used.
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