When Was Your Name Popular? [Archive]

profdlp

19 Jul 2006, 05:33pm

Check out The Baby Name Wizard (http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/) to see when your given name was at the peak of its popularity. Looks like my parents were riding the crest of a trend when they named me:

19 Jul 2006, 06:01pm

Me too. I don't even have to look at a chart to tell you that my name (Christopher) has been only second to Robert in it's historic popularity, reaching it's peak in the early eighties (soon after by birth).

The reason I am called CB by most people is because of the sheer number of Christophers in the school when I was a kid, we all had to be called something else...

csimon

19 Jul 2006, 06:13pm

My name is Christopher and my sons is too!

GHoosdum

19 Jul 2006, 06:20pm

"Clyde" is no longer in the top 1000 - particularly for females. "Bertha" has dropped off in recent years as well, while "Kasey" is really going strong these days. :rolleyes:

My name (Robert) was quite popular in the '70s and '80s, though I was actually named after my great-grandfather rather than by 'trend'.

airbornflght

19 Jul 2006, 06:22pm

Seems like my parents rode the curve of naming me Andrew/Andy also. Popular from early 80's to early 90's

Zildjian

19 Jul 2006, 06:31pm

There are a few that are always consistant like Mike or John.

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Buddy J

19 Jul 2006, 08:04pm

Peter was trendy in the 1890s and again in the 50's. It has been on a steady decline since then.

StainMeNow

19 Jul 2006, 08:20pm

The name Anne has been plummeting since the 1960s. Oh well, no trend riding for my parents! (born in early 80s)

Nightwolf

19 Jul 2006, 08:33pm

My names Trenton, its just now become more popular...I don't remember who named me, just that my father wanted to name me Napolean (no sh*t)...f'ing history buffs....could you imagine how much crap I would've gotten in school.

csimon

19 Jul 2006, 09:19pm

tmh88

19 Jul 2006, 09:23pm

My name is trevor and my parents named me before it was very popular, but then again there arent too many trevors. This year I was the only trevor in my highschool of over 2,000 and thats not counting the faculty.

profdlp

19 Jul 2006, 10:09pm

Peter was trendy in the 1890s and again in the 50's. It has been on a steady decline since then.
Not mine. :range:

/had to be done. Sorry. :vimp:

primesuspect

20 Jul 2006, 12:11am

Shut up, Napoleon! Gosh! :D

hahahah awesome

http://www.short-media.com/images/prime/shaniqua.png

primesuspect

20 Jul 2006, 12:14am

Oh that's it. If I ever have a daughter, I am bringing the name Dagmar back from the 1890's:

http://www.short-media.com/images/prime/dagmar.png

airbornflght

20 Jul 2006, 03:23am

Here is a little story. Our yearbook representative was out our school helping us a little, and he just came from a school in Kansas, and he was putting a picture in the book under the mugs section, and her name was peona, which isn't a bad name really, except for the fact that her last name was bush. I don't know if her parents were blissfully unaware or have a cruel sense of humor...

20 Jul 2006, 03:02pm

Napolean? :honoes: You'd have kicked ass! LOL

Yea, Napolean gets movement and tactics stat bonuses!

GHoosdum

20 Jul 2006, 03:13pm

I thought he was good with the "numchucks"?

muddocktor

20 Jul 2006, 03:43pm

Heh, I just checked all my brother's and my sister's name, as well as mine and there was a definite trend. All of the names peaked in popularity in the 1940's, which were basically the teenage years of both my Mother and Father. What significance this is I have no idea, but it is interesting. BTW, no real cutsie-pie names for us, Paul, James, Janet (which was really popular in the 40's & 50's then dropped off rapidly), Thomas and John.

QCH2002

20 Jul 2006, 04:38pm

Quinton... late 90's and early 00's it was its hayday... now it is in decline. Still less than 140 per 1 million though.

20 Jul 2006, 05:05pm

So starting about 2013, we're going to start seeing a bunch of fastfood workers, and grocery store baggers wearing 'Quinton' name-tags?

QCH2002

20 Jul 2006, 05:14pm

So starting about 2013, we're going to start seeing a bunch of fastfood workers, and grocery store baggers wearing 'Quinton' name-tags?Naw... I'm working to exteminate all those that bare my name. There can only be ONE Quinton... :rarr:

profdlp

20 Jul 2006, 05:25pm

So starting about 2013, we're going to start seeing a bunch of fastfood workers, and grocery store baggers wearing 'Quinton' name-tags?
Having little things like that to look forward to is what makes life worth living. :p

Hawk

20 Jul 2006, 08:18pm

Hehehe, Seems Hawk has never been used. I'm unique!
David was at it's peek when mom & dad named me. 50's.
Fun site. Thnx for pointing it out prof.

airbornflght

21 Jul 2006, 04:10am

I am going to name my kid Airborn ;D Hell, with all of the crazy names now adays, it probably wouldnt be that weird of a name:eek3:

fatcat

21 Jul 2006, 05:03am

my name was ranked 23rd in the 70's, currently 203rd
my son's name was ranked 9th in the 90's, currently 15th
my wife's name was ranked 533rd in the 70's, currently not ranked
my daughter's name was ranked 109th in the 90's, currently 65th

tmh88

21 Jul 2006, 05:11am

Naw... I'm working to exteminate all those that bare my name. There can only be ONE Quinton... :rarr:

and his last name is tarantino:honoes:

WuGgaRoO

21 Jul 2006, 06:54am

can anyone check eugene for me... or perhaps wuggaroo either one would work...my comp is having issues with java due to me having windows vista...soooo close to uninstalling it

Black Hawk

21 Jul 2006, 08:15am

Here ya go:

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/6541/eugenefy8.gif