Hey, THIS (and HERE is the actual site page where you can enter a year) is a cool place to visit if you are interested in history. I’ve been sitting here plugging in ancestors’ names and seeing where they fall on the list of popular names for that year. Ida was popular when my great-aunt Ida was born. When I was in high school, there wasn’t one Ida in my whole class. Hey, I forgot to check my name . . . Okay, my name wasn’t popular then; I knew that.* However, the list looks as if it were taken from my class yearbook.
*Around number 500 on the list for girls; close to 600 on the list for boys.
Quentin, you were around 400; and, Robert, you were 5 – but then you were named for your grandpa. Bing, tell your buddy he was, I think, 10.
and what are we to take away from the factoid that Jake was the number one boy’s name last year?
My name doesn’t show up on the list for any year. I guess I’m a one of a kind. I know that others with my name exist thanks to the internet but I have yet to meet someone who shares my name. I keep telling the kids it would be a great name for a grand-daughter. So far they aren’t going for it.