How Popular is Your First Name?

[pimentoLoaf]

Type yours in and then hover the mouse over the graphic to see when your name was popular:

http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

 

[scotthayes]

When I was born it ranked 16th now 277th

 

[ergdegdeg]

Full name: rank ~800 in the 1960's
Nickname: rank 2 in the 1930's

I'm so out of fashion 😉

 

[Nicolecat]

When I was born my name was ranked #8...last year it was ranked #87.

Not so popular anymore.

 

[mkrishnan]

We spent a few hours playing with this when we first discovered it a few years ago... just a bunch of psychology grad students wishing they had babies, though. 😱

It only has names in the United States, though, so mine obviously doesn't come up. It's a moderately common Indian name, though. I don't know of any comparable programs for name registries in India, but it's particularly common when you take into account that it's used in compound names like Jean in French -- Mohan-Das, Mohan-Kumar, Mohan-Raj, etc.

 

[iJohnHenry]

From 1st at the start, to 3rd when I was born, to 19th today. Natch, I was named after my maternal Grandfather. 😉

John has fallen on hard times.

Send money.

 

[cleanup]

Wow, that's pretty cool.

I have a pretty old-fashioned name. Ranked 15th or so in the 1880's, now 300th. 😀

 

[NC MacGuy]

When born, 193. Now not in top 1000.😕

 

[~Shard~]

When I was born it ranked 16th now 277th

Me too, what a coincidence! 😛 😉 Actually, it looks as though it was 17th when I was born (1978).

 

[heehee]

My name is not in the top 1,000 names in any decade. 😀

 

[Tilpots]

19th when I was born, not including alternative spellings.

 

[~Shard~]

My name is not in the top 1,000 names in any decade. 😀

Wow, you're unique and special! That, or a freak... j/k 😛 😉

 

[arkitect]

I guess being US-centric it figures that an Eastern-European name wouldn't rank high… 😱

1880s — 193rd (Probably loads of immigrants! 😀)
2007 — 844th (Although the Anglicised variation is 7th in 2007! 😱)

 

[ezzie]

in the 80's - 146
now - 194

this is a very useful tool...now i can ensure that my future children will have obscure and/or old-fashioned names. 😀

 

[iJohnHenry]

Wow, you're unique and special! That, or a freak... j/k 😛 😉

His Dad must have been drunk with joy when he put heehee on the Birth Certificate. 😀

 

[Killyp]

When I was born: 52nd
Rank now: 73rd

I'm going out of fashion 🙁 Time to replace me with the latest model methinks...

 

[OllyW]

My first name was 6th when I was born and my second name 3rd.

Mom & Dad obviously didn't put a lot of thought into choosing my names 😀

 

[~Shard~]

His Dad must have been drunk with joy when he put heehee on the Birth Certificate. 😀

And you're special because you have two first names! 😛 😀

 

[leekohler]

And you're special because you have two first names! 😛 😀

I'm mathematically retarded. I also don't read charts and graphs so well. The only number I saw was 642 for mine in 2007. What does that mean?

 

[Sogo]

my name was 326 back in the eighties, and is currently at 263.

 

[savanahrose]

I thought that was cool. Hey Ezzie, my daughter brought home a wild baby bunny and I named her Esmerelda, Ezzy for short. I think that is nice name. No joking there I really like Ezzy.

Now back to the topic. when I was born in the 60's the name Rose was 130, today 351.

My daughter Kira in the 60's was not in top 1000, when she was born in the 80's 415, today 268.

When I get home I will have fun with this feature. 🙂

 

[skunk]

Mine was 478th in the 1890s and it's been downhill ever since.

 

[thechidz]

David:

ranked 2 in the '60's, no 4 when I was born but slowly falling since then.

 

[dllavaneras]

Number 7 when I was born, number 5 as of 2007. 🙂
My second name is a whole different story though. 964 when I was born, not in the top 1000 today.

 

[scotty96LSC]

Number 78. And along I thought I was a number 2.😀