Baby Name Wizard!

[juldea]

I agree with karlean7: the Baby Name Wizard is awesome. I wasted a good half an hour looking up names. :) It charts the popularity of names over the past 100+ years...

http://babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Very cool.

and it reminds me that people are INSANE right now. Why is Mikayla a more common name than Mike? (just for example)

And it graphically shows what i've been saying about the explosion of Alex-clones lately. Sigh.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Yes, in fact, if you add up all the Alex-variants, you do in fact get the most common name for 2003. GRR.

[juldea.livejournal.com]

Because Mike is generally just a shortened form of Michael, not a name itself?

Yeah. Lotsa Alexen.

[oddharmonic.livejournal.com]

My sister gave me grief for naming my kid Laurel. At least she won't have to spell her name every time she gives it out like the Mikkalas, Kortnees and Rylees I went to school with.