The Baby Name Explorer lets you explore names based on gender ratio, substring, popularity, or the number of syllables. Love Baby Names? Try our other Baby Name Apps. The Social Security Administration (SSA) does not include baby names when fewer than five babies were given the name. Hey, my daughter's/brother's/neighbor's name isn't on the list! What gives?Ĭongratulations on a super rare name! Your daughter/brother/neighbor is one of a kind! Or, more precisely, one of no more than 4. There may have been 10 boys named Sarah, but there were also 16 girls named 'Abcde'. There's also going to be a few really far out their names. With a 3,961,981 babies born in 2015, there's bound to be at least a few reporting errors. Looks like! Our data comes direct from the US Census Data, and that's what the Social Security Administration (SSA) reports. Were there really ten boys named Sarah in 2015? Similar names are computed using a combination of string and phonetic edit distances. Average elementary school size comes from the National Center for Educational Statistics. The SSA publishes background information on how the data is collected and distributed for the interested. The Social Security Administration (SSA) for baby name popularity and population size. How unique is a given name? You might be surprised

With so many kindergarteners in the US, we estimate approximately 2,355 kindergarten classes across the country will have three kids with the same name. The probability of a kindergarten class having three children with the same name? Just 1.4%. As someone who had two other 'Sara's (spelled differently) in her kindergarten class, I am fascinated that the probability of a kindergarten class of 35 in 2022 having any two children with the same name is only 42.5%. A person born into our parents' generation is nearly three times as likely to be given a top ten name than a person born into our kids' generation. In comparison, twenty-five years ago 7.5% of children would be given a name in the top ten, and 50 years ago that number was 12%. Only 4.2% of children born last year were given a name in the top ten. While this trend away from the most popular names may be associated with the current generation of parents, it's been occurring for far longer.

In other words, a child born twenty-five years ago is over twice as likely to be given the current year's top name than a child born today. Back then, a baby had a 1.75% probability of being given either name. Twenty-five years ago the top boys' and girls' names were Michael or Emily. The probability that parents in 2021 name their child Liam or Olivia, the top boys' and girls' names, is only 1.04%. The table below indicates the number of times the name Effie has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004.Įffie last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1959, the last year shown on the table.Ī blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.ĭuring the last 125 years, parents have used Effie as a girl's name about 99% of the time and less frequently (about 0% of the time) as a boy's name.Ĭumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Effie appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 80 times during the last 125 years.The Baby Name Uniqueness Analyzer can determine how likely a person with a given name is to encounter another individual with the same name.With the latest trend of selecting unique and unusual names, popular names are not as popular as they once were.

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