Names: everyone’s got one but how has yours performed over the past 110 years? Are you a comeback kid, a disappearing act or a completely new entry? Find out using our interactive graphic that shows the top 100 names for baby…
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Baby names since 1904: how has yours performed?
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Use the Baby Name Explorer to find out when your name was popular
Around the same time I was working on the Name Age Calculator, I developed a simple tool to visualize trends in American baby names. Ever inventive, I named this web app the U.S. Baby Name Explorer. The idea behind the…
Posted in Benefits of open data, Informing Decision-making, Innovation, Posts from feeds, Smart communities, Visualising data Tagged with: baby name, explorer, gender, Randy Olson, USA