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US Baby Name Popularity Visualizer

How popular is your name in us history.

Use this visualization to explore statistics about names, specifically the popularity of different names throughout US history (1880 until 2020). This is a useful tool for seeing the rise (and fall) of popularity of names. Look at names that we think of as old-fashioned, and names that are more modern.

Instructions

• Start typing a name into the input box above and the visualization will show all the names that begin with those letters. The graph will show the historical popularity of all these names as an area graph.
• You can hover (or click on mobile) to bring up a tooltip (popup) that shows you the exact number of births with that name for different years (or decades) and the names rank in that time period.
• It’s best used on computer (rather than a mobile or tablet device) so you can see the graph more clearly and also, if you click on a name wedge, it will zoom into names that begin with those letters.
• You can select different views, Boy names, Girl names or both, as well as looking at the raw number of births or a normalized popularity that accounts for the differential number of births throughout the period between 1880 and 2020.
• If you click the share (arrow) button, it will copy the parameters of the current graph you are looking at and create a custom URL to share with others. It copes the link into your clipboard and your browser’s address (URL) bar.

Isn’t there something out there like this already? Baby Name Wizard and Baby Name Voyager

This visualization is not my original idea, but rather a re-creation of the Baby Name Voyager (from the Baby Name Wizard website) created by Laura Wattenberg. The original visualization disappeared (for some unknown reason) from the web, and I thought it was a shame that we should be deprived of such a fun resource.

It started about a week ago, when I saw on twitter that the Baby Name Wizard website was gone. Here’s the blog post from Laura . I hadn’t used it in probably a decade, but it flashed me back to many years ago well before I got into web programming and dataviz and I remember seeing the Baby Name Voyager and thinking how amazing it was that someone could even make such a thing. Everyone I knew played with it quite a bit when it first came out. It got me thinking that it should still be around and that I could probably make it now with my programming skills and how cool that would be.

So I downloaded the frequency data for Baby Names from the US Social Security Administration and set to work trying to create a stacked area graph of baby names vs time. I started with my go to library for fast dataviz (Plotly.js) but eventually ended up creating the visualization in d3.js which is harder for me, but made it very responsive. I’m not an expert in d3, but know enough that using some similar examples and with lots of googling and stack overflow, I could create what I wanted.

I emailed Laura after creating a sample version, just to make sure it was okay to re-create it as a tribute to the Baby Name Wizard / Voyager and got the okay from her.

Where does the data come from?

Some info about Data (from SSA Baby Names Website ):

All names are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States after 1879. Note that many people born before 1937 never applied for a Social Security card, so their names are not included in our data. Name data are tabulated from the “First Name” field of the Social Security Card Application. Hyphens and spaces are removed, thus Julie-Anne, Julie Anne, and Julieanne will be counted as a single entry. Name data are not edited. For example, the sex associated with a name may be incorrect. Different spellings of similar names are not combined. For example, the names Caitlin, Caitlyn, Kaitlin, Kaitlyn, Kaitlynn, Katelyn, and Katelynn are considered separate names and each has its own rank. All data are from a 100% sample of our records on Social Security card applications as of March 2021.

I did notice that there was a significant under-representation of male names in the early data (before 1910) relative to female names. In the normalized data, I set the data for each sex to 500,000 male and 500,000 female births per million total births, instead of the actual data which shows approximately double the number of female names than male names. Not sure why females would have higher rates of social security applications in the early 20th century. Update: A helpful Redditor pointed me to this blog post which explains some of the wonkiness of the early data . The gist of it is that Social Security cards and numbers weren’t really a thing until 1935. Thus the names of births in 1880 are actually 55 year olds who applied for Social Security numbers and since they weren’t mandatory, they don’t include everyone. My correction basically makes the assumption that this data is actually a survey and we got uneven samples from males and female respondents. It’s not perfect (like the later data) but it’s a decent representation of name distribution.

Sources and Tools: The biggest source of inspiration was of course, Laura Wattenberg’s original Baby Name Explorer.

I downloaded the baby names from the Social Security website . Thanks to Michael W. Shackleford at the SSA for starting their name data reporting. I used a python script to parse and organize the historical data into the proper format my javascript. The visualization is created using HTML, CSS and Javascript code (and the d3.js visualization library) to create interactivity and UI. Curran Kelleher’s area label d3 javascript library was a huge help for adding the names to the graph.

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This is great. I can’t believe the original Voyager is gone, but it is. This is an excellent substitute.

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Baby Name Voyager

By Murray Bourne , 08 Jan 2007

How many Peters are there, compared to Pauls and Paulas? How many parents named their kid Paige? When was Brittney a popular name?

The Baby Name Voyager indicates in visual form the changing fate of names since the 1880s. It does so using a clever java applet:

The Voyager compares names that were registered in the US. The scale used is "usage per million babies". It is cool for many reasons:

• You can see changes in popularity for particular names (see "Michael" below)
• The java applet is super efficient, once it loads
• It is nice how you can play with statistics, reminiscent of Gapminder . Statistics can be a lot more meaningful when it is presented visually.

Let's have a closer look at Michael:

Their database only contains US names so far.

Like all statistics, you need to be careful with interpretation. From their FAQ:

Why do these graphs look different from what I've seen on other web sites? The graphs in the Baby Name Wizard book and web site show the frequency of use of different names. If one name stripe is twice as thick as another on the same screen, that means the name was twice as common. You may have seen other graphs based on popularity rank. Be wary of any information source which does this--it's a fundamental misuse of data, and the graphs just aren't meaningful. For example, the name Joseph has risen from the 13th most popular name 50 years ago to #10 today...but the name is actually significantly less common today.

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The original baby name voyager link is now broken. Here's a replacement visualization made in Javascript. https://engaging-data.com/baby-name-visualizer/

hope this is helpful

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Baby name voyager: nifty graphing app.

If you have a thing for cool graphs and trivial information, you might want to check out IVillage's Baby Name Voyager .  This Java-enhanced graph displays alphabetically the 1,000 most popular names for Americans since the 1880s.  Any name that ever made into the top 1,000 is on this list, and you can see in what year the name was most popular, as well as each name's highest rank.  

Take a look at this screenshot.

Each "stripe" on the graph represents one name.  The thickness of the stripe indicates the name's popularity, and the color of the stripe indicates not only whether the name is for boys or girls, but also the name's popularity in 2005. As you scroll over each stripe on the graph, all the corresponding name is highlighted with a text box showing the name's popularity in a certain decade.

At the top of the graph, you can type in a name and view only that name or similar names in an enlarged form on the graph.

For example, I did a search for my name, Erin, and found that it ranked #28 in the 1980's, my name's most popular decade.  Go figure. I was born in 1983.  No wonder 10 other girls in my high school class were named Erin. 

This graph was a unique design made for iVillage.  I think, however, that it would be fantastic if more graphs looked like this.  For example, if Google Trends got its hand on a graph app like this one, their service could be much improved.  It could be interesting for politics, also: we could alphabetically list all the presidents or politicians and find out when their popularity ratings were the highest within their terms.  It could be handy for electronics companies or for industries with a lot of consumer reviews.  This graph could definitely help consumers track which products and get better rankings.

Graph technology like this has a lot of potential uses.  I think it is particularly interesting how this technology is able to integrate complexity and organization: it displays a massive amount of information, yet is in no way confusing. 

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The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America’s name choices. Start with a “sea” of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you’ll zoom in to focus on how that initial has been used over the past century. Then type a few more letters, or a name. Each stripe is a timeline of one name, its width reflecting the name’s changing popularity. If a name intrigues you, click on its stripe for a closer look.

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How to Name a Baby

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The first time a friend of mine had a child, it was intensely jarring.

I'd be living my normal day, and then the thought would hit me -- "Matt has a son " -- and my whole world would get turned upside down.

Three years and six friend babies later, I'm 32 and have numbed to the whole thing considerably. It's still weird. But not jarring .

This new phenomenon in my life has introduced several new experiences -- things like "having your feelings hurt and losing self-confidence because your friend's toddler doesn't like you" and "learning that talking about the baby as a 'toy' or a 'pod' and commenting on 'it not having a brain yet' is less funny to the baby's parents than it is to you." But perhaps the most frequent new experience is finding myself in discussions about baby names, both in the form of talking to the impending parents and pressuring them to reveal the candidates, and talking to other friends about the eventual name choices behind the new parents' back.

(Note: definitely best to keep the name candidates a secret until after the baby's born -- no name will please everyone and other peoples' opinions really shouldn't be part of the process for something so personal. And when you announce the name after the baby is born, everyone has to pretend they like it to your face no matter what they think, so you'll end up feeling like everyone likes it.)

You'd assume that thinking about baby names is a new thing in my life, but I've actually had a lifelong fascination with the topic.

My curiosity rose to a whole new level the day I discovered an amazing website called The Baby Name Wizard , and especially their Voyager tool, which lets you plug in a few letters or a whole name and see a visual depiction of its corresponding popularity trends over time. The Voyager is delicious and rents permanent space in my Dark Playground . (Of course, as soon as it was the topic of this post, putting Voyager play time in the Dark Woods for the first time ever, the monkey suddenly wanted to do other things and kept clicking away from the page. But that's a whole other topic.)

So, for all these reasons, it seemed like the right time for a post about names, trends, and the things expecting parents need to think about as they make this decision. After many hours on The Baby Name Wizard (and the government's official name database ), here are my thoughts (focusing on the U.S. unless otherwise stated) --

Parents choosing a name have a few options:

1) Go Timeless

Examples: John, James, William, David, Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth

Benefits: You won't embarrass yourself; You won't pigeonhole the kid in any way, including generationally; It's classy; There's something cool about a common bond with centuries of previous humans.

Drawbacks: It's kind of boring.

These names are often biblical, or sometimes those of famous royalty, and they're bigger than any one generation -- William is not a typical old man's name or young guy's name -- it's just William. And they're always popular.

But they're less popular than they used to be. The Top 10 boys names in the 1880s share six members with the Top 10 boys names in the 1950s : John, William, James, Robert, Charles, and Thomas. But the Top 10 in 2012 only includes one name from that list -- William.

2) Go Super Weird

Examples: Winter, Namaste, Jameliah, Stormy, Cameo, Grudzel

Benefits: No one will ever question your balls; If the kid is awesome, then it's awesome.

Drawbacks: They'll have to spell their name on the phone 2 trillion times throughout their life; They'll have to watch people figuring out how to react every time they introduce themselves; They'll get made fun of at school; It might hurt their chances of getting job interviews; If the kid isn't awesome, the whole thing is awkward; If you were just in a phase and made a compulsive decision, that's shitty cause the kid has to live with it forever.

Despite several drawbacks, it's a nice chance to say, "P.S. We don't give a shit about what other people think." And again, if the kid's awesome, a weird name just makes them even more awesome.

For what it's worth, a lot more people are going weird now than they used to. People used to be almost uniformly conformist. In 1950, only 5 percent of parents strayed out of the Top 1,000 names when naming their child. In 2012, 27 percent of parents went weird and left the Top 1,000.

This is part of a broader trend away from conformity: In 1880, the Top 4 boys names (John, William, James, George) covered one in every four boys. In 2012, the Top 4 boys names (Jacob, Mason, Ethan, Noah) cover only one in every 26 boys.

3) Go a Little Weird But Not Too Weird

Examples: Ashton, Wyatt, Luca, Brooklyn, Delaney, Alexia

Benefits: You're being nonconformist but without most of the drawbacks in Category 2; If it's a really good name people will be jealous and you'll be all thrilled with yourself; It says "My parents are cool but not too annoying."

Drawbacks: You might be a little too pleased with yourself for someone who still let the Top 200 names dictate their choice; There's a chance a lot of other people feel the same way about that "unconventional" name and you inadvertently find yourself as part of a Name Fad.

This category is perfect for parents who are far too thrilled with themselves and are having far too special a child for a Timeless or Top 10 Name, but who also look down upon those who go for a Super Weird Name as annoying or unclassy. (In case you're wondering, most of my friends went with Category 3.)

But let's focus on something I mentioned in the drawbacks: The Name Fad . It turns out that sometimes you're not the only one who loves that fresh, oh-so-pretty name, and a Name Fad happens when millions of Category 3 couples all start to say "Wait I like that" when they hear about someone else making a great Category 3 choice (it can also be started by a famous person -- e.g. the surge in Mileys in the last decade).

Suddenly, that name so perfectly placed at #137 on the list of popular names is #86. Then the next year it's #41. Then #18. Then #5. All to the horror of the Category 3 couple.

You know when everyone calls a guy by his nickname except his parents, who use his full three-syllable name? I think part of that is trying to wrench individuality from a fad name.

The fad is heightened by another large category of parent choice--

4) Just Dive Into the Current Honeymoon, Knowing You're Picking a Popular Name

Examples: Anything from the current Top 20.

Benefits: Safe; Hip; Bonds your child with his/her whole generation in a broad sense.

Drawbacks: There will be three other kids in the class with the same name and they'll be referred to along with their last name initial; Your child will one day have a Middle-Aged Name, and one later day, an Old Person Name.

To me, studying Name Fads throughout time yields the most interesting information because it speaks about something society is doing as a whole at a given time. Let's spend the rest of the post digging into Name Fads and how they work --

Here's what a Name Fad looks like:

Between 1965 and 1985, everyone named their daughter Jennifer, and now, no one does. So Jennifer was officially a Name Fad. What this means for all the Jennifers of the world is that while they've enjoyed spending most of their life so far with a cute, hip, young girl name, they are on their way to having a Your Mom's Friend's Name. A Your Mom's Friend's Name happens when lots of middle-aged people have a name that no young or old people have.

A few decades after that, Jennifer can look forward to having an Old Lady Name, which happens when a name belongs to lots of old ladies, but no one under 75.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's a fact that Jennifer is irreparably branded with her generation forever. Of course, Jennifer is just one of many such names.

In 30 years, the names Natalie, Chelsea, Samantha, and Lindsay will sound how Nancy, Cheryl, Susan, and Linda do today. And in 60 years, the names Ethan, Cody, Brandon, and Matthew will be Earl, Chester, Bernard, and Melvin. These are all just Name Fads -- only difference is when they happened.

If you want to know if your name is a fad, type it into the Voyager . If it looks like a witch's hat, it's a fad.

So what's hot right now?

Sophia and Emma in particular are not just sweeping the U.S., but the whole Western world.

Sophia (or Sofia) is in the Top 6 baby names in Italy, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, and Chile. Emma is Top 6 in Ireland, Finland, Norway, Canada, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. Emma's popularity is also clearly caused by a wave of naming after great-grandmothers, another way people sometimes name a child:

To stress how much more popular the biggest names used to be, Mary was six times as popular in 1880 as either Sophia or Emma is now.

And looking at the other top names of 2012 emphasizes just how dead fads are once they're over:

So to be clear, Gunner and Gael are currently more common baby names than Phillip or Scott. And Lyric, Paisley, and Brooklynn with two n's are all more common than Lindsay, Caitlin, and Erica. We're still close enough in time to the red name fads that they seem really common, but they're actually just fads. And they're over.

Some other odd fads I observed while researching:

Demographic-related fads.

Charlotte has a weird history.

After dying out as a popular name for Southern women a few decades ago, Charlotte has returned as a popular name in the most liberal states. This graph shows popularity in each state over time, with the states going from most conservative on the top to most liberal on the bottom.

So there are a bunch of middle-aged conservative women and liberal toddlers out there named Charlotte.

The only time I ever saw a dead name return in fewer than 80 years is when it caught on with a totally different demographic (Jeremiah is another one of these, which after losing steam in the early nineties in the Northwest, has now gotten hot in the Deep South.)

We stole a lot of the hottest current names from Utah.

Here's the history of the name Brooke:

Utah got into the name in the early '70s by itself, and then suddenly in 1980, everyone else decided to jump on board. The same phenomenon goes for Natalie, Aubrey, Riley (m), Jaxon, Paisley, Braxton, and Lacey. (Yes, those are all popular names right now.) Not sure who made Utah the name prophecy state, but that's what it apparently is.

We also stole Evelyn from California.

Evelyn's Popularity Over Time

The popular girl name Reagan is for Republicans.

Same goes for Braxton, Brooklyn, and Jaxon.

Sophia was originally for the richest states, before it got so popular everyone got into it.

Sofia is still for rich states though:

Paige is only for Northerners.

Here's a map showing where Paige was popular in 2008.

Same goes for Alexa, Kathleen, and Nicole.

Meanwhile, Victor is mainly found in the Southwest, Colton in the middle of the country, Caroline in the East, and both Adrianna and Dominic are mostly contained to New Mexico.

Fads around specific letters or sounds

Names starting with a vowel were hottest now and 100 years ago, while many names starting with consonants were biggest in the middle of the century.

Vowel Names

Consonant Names

And F names are for old people.

Names starting with ERI, LA, and the sound CR all went through fads in the 1970s and '80s. They're all over now.

There's a current fad going on for names starting in IS.

People used to copy the president

Genders being dicks

Sometimes one gender is doing its thing, living its life, when one of its names is suddenly stolen by the other gender:

Another case of females committing full-fledged robbery:

Genders also get jealous when the other has too popular a name. Each of the following names has had the other gender in the Top 1,000 during some stretch of the past (click on a name to see its history with the opposite gender).

John , William , James , George , Joseph , Michael , Thomas , David , Frank , Henry , Mary , Elizabeth , Sarah , and Margaret .

And now, many of the most popular baby names are popular with both genders, as if each gender can't handle the other one innovating without being included.

I know a lot about names right now.

I'll leave you today with this puzzle:

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How popular is the baby name Voyager in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Voyager.

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Posts that mention the name voyager, popular and unique baby names in sonoma county (california), 2022.

Sonoma County, located north of San Francisco, is part of California’s famous Wine Country region.

Last year, Sonoma welcomed 4,583 babies. What were the most popular names among these babies? Camila and Mateo .

Here are Sonoma’s top 50+ girl names and top 50+ boy names of 2022:

• Camila, 28 baby girls
• Isabella, 21 (tie)
• Mia, 21 (tie)
• Elizabeth, 17 (tie)
• Olivia, 17 (tie)
• Charlotte, 15 (tie)
• Penelope, 15 (tie)
• Evelyn, 13 (4-way tie)
• Gianna, 13 (4-way tie)
• Natalie, 13 (4-way tie)
• Riley, 13 (4-way tie)
• Ella, 12 (6-way tie)
• Emily, 12 (6-way tie)
• Nora, 12 (6-way tie)
• Ruby, 12 (6-way tie)
• Samantha, 12 (6-way tie)
• Sophia, 12 (6-way tie)
• Aria, 11 (4-way tie)
• Mila, 11 (4-way tie)
• Scarlett, 11 (4-way tie)
• Zoey, 11 (4-way tie)
• Catalina, 10 (5-way tie)
• Victoria, 10 (5-way tie)
• Violet, 10 (5-way tie)
• Ximena, 10 (5-way tie)
• The dataset included a blank entry with 10 babies. Perhaps the name was accidentally deleted, or this entry represents 10 Sonoma babies that have yet to be named…?
• Abigail, 9 (6-way tie)
• Audrey, 9 (6-way tie)
• Ava, 9 (6-way tie)
• Avery, 9 (6-way tie)
• Hazel, 9 (6-way tie)
• Lucia, 9 (6-way tie)
• Chloe, 8 (5-way tie)
• Layla, 8 (5-way tie)
• Natalia, 8 (5-way tie)
• Piper, 8 (5-way tie)
• Zoe, 8 (5-way tie)
• Aaliyah, 7 (17-way tie)
• Alina, 7 (17-way tie)
• Athena, 7 (17-way tie)
• Bella, 7 (17-way tie)
• Cora, 7 (17-way tie)
• Daisy, 7 (17-way tie)
• Eleanor, 7 (17-way tie)
• Eliana, 7 (17-way tie)
• Ellie, 7 (17-way tie)
• Genesis, 7 (17-way tie)
• Harper, 7 (17-way tie)
• Isla, 7 (17-way tie)
• June, 7 (17-way tie)
• Kira, 7 (17-way tie)
• Madison, 7 (17-way tie)
• Sadie, 7 (17-way tie)
• Willow, 7 (17-way tie)
• Mateo, 26 baby boys
• Henry, 20 (3-way tie)
• Hudson, 20 (3-way tie)
• Santiago, 20 (3-way tie)
• Noah, 19 (tie)
• Sebastian, 19 (tie)
• Aiden, 16 (3-way tie)
• Daniel, 16 (3-way tie)
• Lucas, 16 (3-way tie)
• James, 15 (4-way tie)
• Levi, 15 (4-way tie)
• Theodore, 15 (4-way tie)
• Wyatt, 15 (4-way tie)
• Angel, 14 (4-way tie)
• Isaac, 14 (4-way tie)
• Jack, 14 (4-way tie)
• Jackson, 14 (4-way tie)
• Damian, 13 (7-way tie)
• Emiliano, 13 (7-way tie)
• Emilio, 13 (7-way tie)
• Ian, 13( 7-way tie)
• Juan, 13 (7-way tie)
• Julian, 13 (7-way tie)
• Luca, 13 (7-way tie)
• Adrian, 12 (8-way tie)
• Adriel, 12 (8-way tie)
• Jayden, 12 (8-way tie)
• Jose, 12 (8-way tie)
• Leo, 12 (8-way tie)
• Mason, 12 (8-way tie)
• Theo, 12 (8-way tie)
• William, 12 (8-way tie)
• Aaron, 11 (6-way tie)
• Anthony, 11 (6-way tie)
• Cameron, 11 (6-way tie)
• Logan, 11 (6-way tie)
• Michael, 11 (6-way tie)
• Roman, 11 (6-way tie)
• Christopher, 10 (6-way tie)
• Kai, 10 (6-way tie)
• Lorenzo, 10 (6-way tie)
• Miguel, 10 (6-way tie)
• Owen, 10 (6-way tie)
• Quinn, 10 (6-way tie)
• Axel, 9 (9-way tie)
• Caleb, 9 (9-way tie)
• Dominic, 9 (9-way tie)
• Ezekiel, 9 (9-way tie)
• Felix, 9 (9-way tie)
• Gabriel, 9 (9-way tie)
• Maverick, 9 (9-way tie)
• Rowan, 9 (9-way tie)
• Samuel, 9 (9-way tie)

Lower down on the list, we find 3 boys named Oslo and 2 named Kawika (the Hawaiian form of David).

And here’s a sampling of the many names that were bestowed just once in Sonoma last year:

Some possible explanations/influences for a few of the above:

• Alofa means “love” in Samoan.
• Dechen means “great bliss” in Tibetan.
• Etsai means “devil” in Basque.
• Iroh is a character from the animated TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender .
• Javelin originally referred to a light spear used in hunting, but today it’s more closely linked to either the Olympic sport or the missile used by the military.
• Ka Iulani could be a reference to Hawaii’s last heir apparent, Princess Ka’iulani .
• Kaleo means “the voice” or “the sound” in Hawaiian. (It’s also the name of an Icelandic rock band.)
• Pejuta means “medicine” in Lakota.
• Quetzal refers to the quetzal bird .

P.S. Just for fun, here are some of the names that have only popped up a single time in Sonoma’s baby name data, which goes back to the 1800s.

• 2013: Ethereal, Meadowlark
• 2011: Four, Aubergine
• 2009: Limber, Nightlynn, Pepperwood
• 2008: Honeymoon, Teancum
• Ozomatli is the Nahuatl word for “monkey.” (It’s also the name of a Grammy-winning Latin Rock band from Los Angeles.)
• 2000: Ocean Wind, Millennium , Millennium Christopher
• 1999: Chrysler
• 1997: Return
• 1996: Riverwind
• 1995: Brazil, Cedar River, Talisman
• 1994: Namibia, Northern
• 1993: Tiffani Amber , Vancouver
• 1992: Sunwater
• 1991: Modesto, Sparkles
• 1988: Smokey
• 1985: Juror, Redcloud
• 1984: Little Fawn
• Otineb is “Benito” spelled backwards
• 1981: Connemara
• 1976: Sonrisa
• 1975: Little Star
• 1974: Buffalo, Evenstar, Kipkino
• 1973: Apricot, Coriander, Summertime
• 1970: Starfinder
• 1965: Honey Bee
• 1958: Zebra
• 1951: Starlite
• I appreciate that a baby born in a wine-making region was named “Grape” :)
• 1921: Senator
• 1915: Sequestre
• 1914: Eldorado

Sonoma’s two-hit wonder names include Strawberry (1971, 1973) and Fairlight (1974, 1976).

Sources: Sonoma County Baby Names | Open Data | Sonoma County , Sonoma County Births by Year | Open Data | Sonoma County , Wiktionary , Online Nahuatl Dictionary

Image: Adapted from Flag of California (public domain)

Sea-themed names given to sea-born babies

Earlier this year, singer Ed Sheeran welcomed a baby girl named Lyra Antarctica Seaborn Sheeran. She wasn’t actually born at sea — “Seaborn” is her mother’s surname — but did you know that many of the babies named “Seaborn” throughout history were in fact born at sea?

And it doesn’t stop at “Seaborn.” These sea-born babies got all sorts of interesting names hinting at the circumstances of their birth. Here’s a round-up of what I’ve spotted in the records…

Sea-inspired names:

• Seaborn (The earliest American example I know of is Seaborn Cotton, born in August of 1633 while as his parents were traveling from England to New England. Notably, he was the uncle of Cotton Mather .)
• Seaforth (e.g., Charles Seaforth Stewart )
• Sea-Mercy (This one comes from Sea-Mercy Adams, a man who got married in Philadelphia in 1686.)

Ocean-inspired names:

• Ocean (One was Ocean Pearl Tice, born in 1877.)
• Oceanus (One was the Pilgrim baby Oceanus Hopkins , born in 1620.)

Marine-inspired names:

Atlantic-inspired names:

• Atlantic (One was Atlantic Seaborn Ford, born in 1863. Another was Atlantic Missouri Linne , born in 1889.)

Pacific-inspired names:

And, finally, all of the other sea-birth-inspired baby names I’ve seen:

• Sou’wester
• Stella Maris

If you had a baby on the open ocean, what would you name that baby?

Image: Salem Harbor (1853) by Fitz Henry Lane

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Baby name voyager.

In February 2005, IBM researcher Martin Wattenberg created a Web-based visualization applet, the NameVoyager , to help call attention to his wife’s first book, The Baby Name Wizard, a guide to American baby names. This effort to support his wife’s project swept the Web and became a hot topic of conversation – for those searching for the perfect baby name and for others. Without any advertising, the applet drew more than 500,000 site visits in its first two weeks. It has been downloaded more than 900,000 times as of mid-April. Also in April, Google found more than 11,000 references to the NameVoyager.

It follows usability principles:

The NameVoyager follows Ben Shneiderman’s mantra, “Overview first, zoom and filter, details on demand.” When the applet starts, the viewer sees a set of horizontal layers representing all names in the database. It shows both sexes: red for girls and blue for boys. More popular names have a darker colour.

To filter the data, you can select Boys, Girls, or Both. If you type letters, the applet takes them as the beginning of a name; the applet will then show only names starting with those letters.

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` Whoa! I get back from commenting on the last post and I’m surprised by this one! ` You know what’s really cool? Baby names of different classes – high-class names tend to work their way down the social ladder, so that today’s poorer folks are named after the rich folks of the past! ` I’ll have to check that thingy out!

Unfortunately, the applet requires Java to run and only shows US data. For a more international view, check out the Baby Name Map which includes Canadian data.

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Lala Kent Reveals Name of Second Daughter and Shares the First Photo of Her Baby Girl

Kent is also mom to daughter Ocean, 3, whom she shares with ex Randall Emmett

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Lala Kent is introducing her second baby girl to the world.

On Monday, Sept. 9, the Vanderpump Rules alum, 34, shared a black-and-white photo on her Instagram of her newest addition. In the sweet photo, Kent snapped her baby's feet, curled up on a fuzzy blanket.

"Sosa Kent 🤍," the newly minted mom of two captioned her post, revealing her daughter's name.

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Kent is also mom to daughter Ocean, 3, whom she shares with ex Randall Emmett.

In a prerecorded episode of her podcast  Give Them Lala released last week, Kent shared that although she had a name picked out for her second daughter, whom she  welcomed earlier that week , she didn't want to reveal the newborn's name when the podcast episode dropped since it was Beyoncé's birthday.

"Today is Beyoncé's birthday. September 4 is her day," Kent said during the episode, which was released on Wednesday, Sept. 4. "We can't announce today."

When asked why she decided not to reveal, Kent said, "No one's gonna give a s---. It's Beyoncé's birthday!"

"I'm gonna wait. Baby S gets her moment," added the newly minted mom of two, referring to her second daughter's first initial.

Kent welcomed her second baby, another  daughter , on Sept. 3,  announcing the exciting news  in a post on  her Instagram Stories .

The proud mom shared a black screen on her Stories, writing, "Welcome into the world, my love," across the photo, adding the date "9.3.24" in the bottom right corner. At the time, she did not reveal the name of her baby girl.

In August, Kent appeared on the cover of  Mini Magazine  and opened up about whether she thinks she'll add another little one to her family down the line. "I dig my family life," Kent told the outlet.

"There's nothing more fun or more fulfilling to me than being with my family. As much as I hate to say 'never,' I truly don't see myself having children with someone," she continued. "Doing motherhood on my own feels very right. It suits me."

"I'm going to get through this pregnancy, enjoy every second of Baby S and Ocean, then decide if and when we do round three."

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