baby names

[flea]

Eva Quinn (ex-coworker)
Landis (ditto)
Kalliope Eva (archaeologists, the father is Greek-American; if they pronounce it the Greek way it should be Kal-ee-OH-pee)

Super fun baby name map (1960-present, names must be relatively popular):
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namemapper

Comments

[ste-noni.livejournal.com]

I love your baby name obsession! I'm having a lot of fun with that wizard. Francisco is a fairly high-ranked name on the SSA list (I forget exactly where), but on the baby name map, it is, not surprisingly, confined to the southern border states. Which explains why it has seemed like both a common and unusual name to me.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Apparently my name is more popular in my home state than anywhere else for the entire time period covered.

Poor Kalliope. I can't be the only one who looks at that name and immediately has doot doot doodle doodle doot doot do doot... start earworming them.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Damn, the map won't work for me. But the tracker confirmed my idea of the trendline for my RL name among (anglophone) populations: nowhere pre-70s, slow rise during that decade, peaking v. high in the 80s & 90s.

I don't know if it's good or bad that based on my name alone people will assume I'm 10-20 years younger...

[serrana.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Landis is a family surname.

[larisa57.livejournal.com]

Huh. My real name was mostly popular in Vermont and New Hampshire, with it briefly popping up all over the place in 1992 before disappearing again. But through the seventies and eighties, it's only showing up at all in Vermont, New Hampshire, and one year Maine. Interesting.