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- skatejunk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+154wow, I didn't know that many guys have the name blablaman
- freqout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50This visualization is by Martin Wattenberg who has done a lot of amazing stuff.
One of my favorites is his Shape of Song project: http://www.turbulence.org/Works/song/
He might be best known for the Map of the Market project he did for Smart Money: http://www.smartmoney.com/marketmap/
Check out his website for more: http://www.bewitched.com/ - Nobi-Wan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48I always wondered when the name Shaniqua suddenly became popular.
Answer: Mid 1990's. - lukas88, on 10/12/2007, -1/+43my name, Luke, was unique until the 1990s. Who knew so many star wars fans managed to get laid?
- ncraig, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28hmmm I saw this on digg 406 days ago, will FARK ever be able to catch up?
http://digg.com/tech_news/Name_Voyager - donatj, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19I was unaware there were any men actually named Jessica...
- blablaman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Pretty cool app. Was surprised that Emily was the most popular girls name in 2003. My name's in the top 20 for guys.... I don't feel very unique.
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18For our daughter my wife wanted Emily and I wanted Katherine.. we ended up flipping a coin and she won.
- master_of_fm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I want to name my first born son William Robert so I can call him Billy Bob, but my wife says no
- Portwineboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Not very odd. The Hispanic population in the US has grown quite a bit in recent years, hence the corresponding rise in the name Jesus, pronounced, Hay-Zeuss. (more or less)
/well less but hey what do i know - Etheo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Better than the name Gaylord, it died in 1960s. :p
Not surprising, really. - Schug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Definitely a cool app. Why does it look like all the names are declining down, though?
- mikesol, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Michael will forever remain one of the top names. I'm not biased at all.
Now let me get started on a little Michael Junior to keep the name strong... - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15@CHENEY
A simple thumbs up for you just doesn't suffice. Funniest thing I've read all week. - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15Looks like George Bush's poll numbers!
- Quakes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9For some reason, there were also about 35 million girls named "Jonathan" in the 1980's.... Poor chicks.
- EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Look at 'Hillary'. That has to be the sharpest decline in history.
- gosix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I shan't find it. ha! I kill me!
- Swimming_Bird, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Pretty cool, i wish it was a little easier to brows the statistics though.
My name wasnt even in the system :P - soogy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I agree, the interface was great. It made it really easy to - at the risk of unleashing my inner child - find names comprised of dirty words.
- caboosemoose, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@Schug: It essentially means that the spread of name selection is increasing, there aren't standard names like John, William, Mary or Anna anymore that dominate, but nothing is taking their place. I'm completely horrified to see a frightening increase of the choice of Angel for boys, ranked 32nd as of 2005. People who make such disastrous naming choices shouldn't be allowed to mate.
- CasualAffair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6My mom seriously had a patient who named their kids Lemmonjello and Orangello, weird you say that. 0_o
- DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@mousy
Names don't show unless they're in the top 1000 per decade, so if you name is at all "unusual", it's not gonna be there. My nephew for example, was literally the only kid in Australia registered with his name in his birth year, so obviously he's not gonna show up (It's not that wierd a name either, sorry, I'm not putting it here, 'cos obviously it's too easy to identify him).
(Oh, and I modded you up. There seems to be a bunch of rogues around this morning (Australian time) downmodding comments that go against their personal agenda rather than considering the actual social contribution of the individual post). - Saan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7this deserves a Digg merely for the interface, that code jockey knows a good one when he/she writes it
- returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Mary is in decline, but Jesus is making a comeback.
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The name Mohammed IS significant in America, just not in the good way.
- reject, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6+Digg for the alternate title.
"Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky" would be proud. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5my mom had a student named shi'thead, who had a sister named shi'kinna (cause she kinna look like her mom, and kinna look like her dad)...
- Ramblebot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I saw this demoed at the O'Reilly Emerging Tech conference last year and it helped my wife and I pick our baby's name -- job well done.
- jeremedia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5freqout, yours is one of the VERY VERY VERY rare useful digg comments. Thanks.
- norbiu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6heh, my name disappeared from the top 1000 in the 1970's.
- Katana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Apprently the name gaylord was popular in 1940's
- synaesthesia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I wonder what it is that makes names spike and fall like that... I know a Tiffany who was born right at the peak of the Tiffany Mountain and I cant help but wonder why a certain name would suddenly surge in popularity then drop years later.
Its hilarious to type in old-people names like Agatha, Bertha, and Alfred and watch the decline over the decades. - jerseyg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4My name is wildly unpopular (but in the system). Yay for hippie parents who wanted to be different.
- theprez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Try "Unknown". Now those are bad parents.
- scsikool, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@caboosemoose
>> I'm completely horrified to see a frightening increase of the choice of Angel for boys, ranked 32nd as of 2005.
That's a pretty common hispanic name. Like Jesus (pronounced: hay-sus) - SPARTACVS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"probably because he was such a douche on Lost"
Well, if you look at "Sawyer", it spiked from 436 in 2004 to 307 in 2005. So I would say Lost has influence. - sembetu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Um, what does it mean if you don't exist on this chart? I feel so alone, so cold...
- JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Um, I guess you have never been to the Phillipines. Both are common names. Those names are minor compared to some overelly silly names floating about in the Filipines. I was born there and thank God my parents had the sense to give me a normal name. Yes, Baby and Apple are common names for girls in the Phillipines.China (especially Hong Kong) also is proud to make the list of the silliest names ever. When I was living in Singapore, I interviewed a Chinese guy named Hitler. I am not joking. I kind of feeled bad for the guy and almost suggested he use a different name when looking for work.
- Etheo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Well it seems it has been submitted before but didn't make it to the front page. This thing is OOOOLD... but cool nonetheless. Hopefully they updated the stats somewhat.
- valis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Michael is the name of an archangel. Some biblical names have remained relatively popular for a long time.
- JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It doesn't know my name which is not an uncommon name (well it is not in Eurupe). Damn you parents!!! I think I will either now cry in a corner or set myself on fire. No, my name is not Dredd. Geoffrey.
- theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Lemmonjello, Orangello and Shi'thead didn't even make the list!
This list is racist. - theblooms, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah, ranked #2 for 2003, plummeting from #1. Huge decline.
- freqout, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Actually, you can do anti-aliasing in Java. Here's a Wattenberg example: http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/chess.html
All those "thinking lines" are most definitely anti-aliased. In the Name Voyager, its drawing so many shapes every frame that it would be way too computationally expensive to anti-alias them all.
For easy Java anti-aliasing, try the Processing environment. All it takes is a smooth() command!
http://processing.org/
http://processing.org/reference/smooth_.html - kettlechips, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4George is no longer a cool name, it seems.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You can tell certain names popularity are related to the rise and fall of celebrities with that name. Type in Paris, it was popular a few years ago.......but now nobody likes paris so it's gone down.
- Prometheus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3In the 1970's Brain was ranked 645th for boys names...
- Trebormojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3He does some cool stuff. The only problem I have with it, being a designer myself, is that Java doesn't have the anti-aliasing capabilities that Flash does.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It actually was posted over a year ago (at least).
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