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NameExplorer

Web app to find and explore first names given to babies born in the U.S. between 1880 and 2017.

🔎 Can explore names by:

  • popularity (overall popularity or popularity for a given year)

  • starting letter(s)

  • letter(s) contained in the name

  • name length/number of letters

👀 View:

  • For each name, see the percentage of male or female babies given that name.

  • For a name of interest, view a plot of the number of babies born each year (1880-2017) who were given that name.

✨ Possible use cases:

  • New baby on the way and would like to find a name that was popular in the 1940's.

  • Writing a novel and want a set of names for siblings that all start with 'Sa'.

  • Looking for names that only have 4 letters.

  • Curious about your own name - how many other babies were born in the same year as you with the same name.

  • And more!


ℹ️ Additional info:

Data is from {babynames} R package: Wickham H (2021). babynames: US Baby Names 1880-2017. R package version 1.0.1, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=babynames.

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