Choosing your daughter’s name can be an odyssey if you don’t have it clear before pregnancy. Even if you are clear about it, you can have problems, because the decision is a matter of two and sometimes the other can tell you that of “no, I know someone who is called that and …” and then you have to find another name, sometimes even by going to books or lists of names.
Lists of names, such as those that show us each year how often a name is used (which helps those who do not want to put a very usual name and those who do), and like the one that we can see in the video that you I bring today, which with funny and hypnotic bubbles allows us to see which are the most frequent girl names in the US from 1980 to 2013 .
The data come from the annual census and the names are arranged in bubbles that change in size according to frequency. The color of the bubbles responds to the initial letter and to the right of the video we can see the important events that happened each year, many related to the names.
In the 1930s, for example, Shirley Temple became a child star, as there were more girls with that name at that time. In the year 47, Buddy Clark’s song “Linda” reached number one and the consequence is that it was also the most popular name. Similarly, after the song Michelle by the Beatles, in 1965, the frequency of the name increased markedly and thus with various events in history.
It is curious to see that in recent decades and especially in recent years, the frequency has diversified enormously, something that we see in the size of the bubbles. In 2007, for example, no names exceed 1 percent, and according to the census, the top 100 names on the list do not cover even a third of all girls born that year.
The video ends in 2013, when the most popular names are Sophia, Emma, Olivia, Isabella and Ava.
The most frequent girl names in Spain
Two months ago we showed you which would be the names that would set the trend in 2015, and among them we showed you which were the most frequent in our country. Today we see them again ordered by year, to follow a little with what you have seen in the video:
And the most frequent girl names in Latin American countries?
We are aware that more and more people from Latin America visit our blog and that is why we also show you below which are the most frequent names in Mexico , which is the country from which we have found more data:
Via | Washington Post, INE, Babycenter
Photo | Thinkstock
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