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babynamewizard.com — A really cool applet visualizes name popularity trends across time as you type the name. Pretty addicting, whether or not you're a prospective parent.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 9, 2005

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  • awfulshot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow this has to be the sweetest thing ever! DUGG!
  • iskatebad914, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1noone was named dick after the 70's. haha
  • zenghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0HA...jesus is number 70...
  • TheNik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0My name isn't on there (well, spelled like mine).

    :D
  • CompIsMyRx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Haha, Unknown is a name.
  • Coronaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ranked 60 in the 1970's (Highest Ranked)
    Ranked 157 in 2004
  • techgeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is a duplicate on an old one http://www.digg.com/links/Name_Voyager that was first shown on Attack of the Show
  • Chris_F, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0w00t, #2 the year I was born.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Britney peaked in the 90s. So very true
  • JzLosman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+060 million children are now named Draven, what the hell
  • zenghost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was ranked 224 in '04...not bad out of 822189572345 names...

    damn everyone was called john back then...
  • Abyss_908, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well "Jonathon" is only 500 hundred out of a million but "Jonathan" with an A is 5,000 out of one million. I guess I'm in the special elite of them spelled with an O.
  • NearHearingED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0pfft...GAYLORD (hah ahah ahahah haha hah ha)
  • AUGTRON, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You know why no one knew about this...NO one watches attack of the show.
  • squeeze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0parents name their children after countries...America and German (no y)
  • mojaam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thats a nice applet, I wish I can program something that smooth.
  • republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jesus sure is taking off!
  • pwallroth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0spent too much time at that site just now.
  • lollerskates, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0We can see that the rank of the name "Gaylord" sharply decreased in number around the 60's, when gays started appearing.

    Wait wait, there are actually people named Zain? And Lemon?
  • NearHearingED, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LOL, Kevin looks like it was made up by someone in the early 20th century and then became a popular name.
  • chromo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this thing is good for remembering someones name too......thank god....i can stop thinking about that
  • jhunt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Man, this is awesome.
  • MacTechSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Damn, Assface isn't on the list.
  • SirBriggs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not loading.
  • Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was ranked 12 in the 80s
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I say we institute a new rule: every time someone screams "old", we dislodge their legs at the knee and shove them down their throats. That ought to shut them the hell up.
  • antsony, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This was on The Screen Savers long time ago, still a good digg.
  • mcpaige, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice!
  • republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"really old... no digg"
    Next time share, dumbass

    No one was named God. That is what I am naming my first born.
  • graemee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Suxs my name didn't make the top 1000. Still neat - Digged
  • zagi1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Linus is on here woot
  • nevin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah, aparently "Nevin" never made it in the top 1000.
    cool.
    this is actually pretty cool.
  • Linuxrocks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No one was named God. That is what I am naming my first born.


    I feel bad for your first born..
  • mindlessxd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0In the 70's, over 70 per million GIRLS were named David!?!
  • saxmanlarry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I actually don't believe that was an AOTS segment, I stopped watching when TSS died, and I remember this. I think this was a pretty late TSS Sarah segment.
  • skooma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Condoleeza, never popular
  • frk410s2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0mindless:

    it's 70 PER 1million, not 70 million :)
  • Choppy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dammit, Dianhao isn't up there! That's it, I'm suing.
  • republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Quite a few men were named Mary a while a go. The parents thought it would toughen them up.
  • Moose_Head, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Look up Adolph... its not very popular after 1939's
  • wadechristy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is soooo cool
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0lol @ moose

    +digg
  • dolby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I saw this on TSS about 2 year ago, It was Sarah Dam Good website of the day. G4 sucks, bring back techtv
  • republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For some reason Gaylord isn't as popular these days.
  • ggriffit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is Sweet!
  • republicoftexas, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"I feel bad for your first born.."

    Forgiveness for your sins for a dollar.
  • OOTay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0wow teh_old AGAIN!
  • leadx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0really old... no digg

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